GGJ Members

We are successfully building power for low-wage workers, tenants and families. Together, POWER members have waged more than twenty campaigns to improve the living and working conditions for welfare workers, domestic workers, low-income tenants and other working class people of color.

The Freedom to Learn Campaign is based on the belief that education is a RIGHT, not a privilege! We believe that ALL students, regardless of race, income, or immigration status, deserve equal access to high-quality public schools that prepares them for college and equal access to higher education. The Freedom to Learn campaign is the umbrella that encompasses all of our work for educational justice.

The Miami Workers Center is a strategy and action center. We build the collective strength of low-income people of color and our communities for power and self-determination. We initiate and support grassroots projects, known as Grassroots Councils, that are led by the people most affected by the social issues of our time: poverty, racism, and gender oppression.

Our campaigns, projects, and publications are rooted in working class communities of color, and address the totality of urban life with a particular focus on civil rights, environmental justice, public health, global warming, and the criminal legal system. We build consciousness, leadership, and organization among those who face discrimination and societal attack--people of color, women, immigrants, workers, LGBT people, youth, all of whom comprise our membership.

For almost fifty years, EMEAC has been working in the legislature, in the courts, in township halls and in schools. We played a role in the enactment of most of Michigan's environmental laws. We have used those laws in court to protect air and water quality, wetlands, natural areas, farmlands and wildlife. We have drafted regulations for local governments and have provided public information and environmental education opportunities throughout southeast Michigan.

Comunidad a Comunidad/Food Justice works to Empower under-represented peoples to have an equal voice in decision making processes; Develop cross-cultural awareness; Restore justice to our food, land and cultural practices; Promote community relationships towards self-reliance; Work in solidarity with those that strive towards human rights for all; Rescue the value of feminine intellect and leadership

PCASC educates and mobilizes the community, workers, and students in the fight for human rights and social justice in the Americas. We have three important functions:

1. We educate and inform our community about the sociopolitical situation in Central and South America.
2. We raise funds to support different social movements.
3. We actively oppose imperialist intervention by the United States in Latin America, which is manifested by free trade agreements and the defense industry.

Causa Justa :: Just Cause (CJJC) brings together two organizations that evolved different organizing models in their respective communities.

The BWFJ is an organization of Black workers formed in 1981 out of a struggle led by Black women workers at a K-mart store in Rocky Mount, North Carolina against race and gender discrimination. After organizing a boycott of the local K-mart store and reaching out to workers at other workplaces and communities, Black workers and community activists from 10 counties met at the First Missionary Baptist Church in Fremont, NC in June 1982 to form BWFJ as a statewide organization.

BMWC was formed in 2001 by a group of young inter-tribal, inter-ethnic people dedicated to addressing issues of water depletion, natural resource exploitation, and health promotion within Navajo and Hopi communities. We continue to be led strongly by young adults while relying on an inter-generational support network.

The Southwest Workers’ Union (SWU) is an organization of low-income workers and families, community residents, and youth, united in one organizational struggle for worker rights, environmental justice and community empowerment.

Formed in 1997, United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is a grassroots organization of youth and students who believe that a powerful and dynamic labor movement will ensure greater justice for all people. We use our unique roles of students as consumers, workers, and members of the campus community to win victories that set precedents in the struggle for self-determination of working people everywhere, particularly campus workers and garment workers who make collegiate licensed apparel.