“Activism, Resistance, and Sustainability Convening” inspires

Worker center and community organizers from across the country came together last week at the “Activism, Resistance, and Sustainability Convening” at the Tommy Douglas Center to discuss their place, power and opportunities within the labor movement and the broader fight for justice. The three-day conference was organized by the Rutgers Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO) for worker centers and included discussions, speakers and expert panels. Organizers from across the country gathered to learn from each other and grow as organizers. "CIWO is particularly important and relevant to the National Black Worker Center Project," said Tanya Wallace Gobern, Executive Director of the National Black Worker Center Project, "as it provides a forum to discuss the changing cultural and political dynamics that impact our world while nurturing activists and organizers posed to invest in community that moves forward and not backwards." Metro Washington Council Union Cities intern Mack Miller -- who attended and helped staff the conference -- agreed, saying that “hearing about the experiences of organizers from around the country working with different communities of workers and the need for a diversity of organizational structures and approaches was really inspiring.”
- photo by Marilyn Sneiderman

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