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Statewide Organizer at VOCAL-NY
Organizational Background VOCAL-NY is a grassroots membership organization dedicated to building the power of low- income people affected by the drug war, mass incarceration, the HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C epidemics, and homelessness to create healthy and just communities. We accomplish this through community organizing, activism, and public policy advocacy. You can learn more about our…
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Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition Seeks Community Development Organizer
The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) is a 40-year old social justice community organization that unites individuals and institutions to fight for better neighborhoods and for social, economic, environmental, and racial justice. NWBCCC is a membership-based organization that uses direct action community organizing to address affordable housing, public education, immigrant rights, youth, voting…
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AFT Hiring Senior Associate
Job Title: Senior Associate Unit: AFTSU Job Number: AOF-58-31-1015-V Supervisor: Assistant to the President for Research and Strategic Initiatives Department: Research and Strategic Initiatives Annual Salary: $82,463.54 Special Note: The purpose of the position is to conduct research in close coordination with AFT staff and affiliates, with a particular focus on AFT’s Nurses and Health Professionals…
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Why America Needs Worker Co-Ops More Than Ever
Featured photo credit: USDA Photo by Lance Cheung, via Flickr CC This article originally appeared at Triple Pundit. By Daniel Faris America is no longer a representative democracy—a fact underscored by decades of grotesque and steadily worsening economic inequality and an election process that depends more on wealthy donors than on an informed electorate. Case in point: the…
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