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Rising amenity fees in The Villages are getting unbearable
I’ve seen information regarding the raising of amenity fees. I’d like to know to whom or to where I can voice an opinion. My husband and I moved here in July 2020. When we purchased our home on Linden Isle, we were told our amenity fee would be $162. There was no mention or writing that the fee would increase over time. We got the impression it depended on when you purchased as to what your fee was.
Finding Power in Community: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers’ Union
The following is a transcript of the video above, from our November 16, 2022, roundtable, “Building a Movement for the Common Good.” Sheri Davis: I think it’s important to name when we also have leadership that is willing to name and call things as they are—that we are actually speaking to a base that is beyond membership, right? That we’ve actually built relationships.
Lessons from Lynn: Leveraging Savings Circles, the “Cuchubal Initiative”
How can nonprofits help immigrants build community wealth? There are many answers to this question, but in Lynn, MA, our two organizations decided last year to try an experiment. Instead of creating an expensive, new staff-driven program, might it be possible, at very low cost, to expand an existing immigrant self-help mechanism—namely, the savings circle? Nonprofit and public sector programs to promote savings are common.
Listen to Maurice Mitchell On Building Resilient Organizations
Maurice is a nationally-recognized social movement strategist and organizer for racial, social, and economic justice. Raised by Caribbean working-class parents in NY, Maurice began organizing as a teenager. After graduating from Howard University, he went on to work as an organizer for the Long Island Progressive Coalition, downstate organizing director for Citizen Action of NY, and Director of the NY State Civic Engagement Table.
Critical Race Feminism and Common Good Unionism
Our democracy is in shambles. The racist and radical right wing, institutionalized in the GOP, won the right to impanel a retrograde Supreme Court—one committed to rolling the clock back to an America where Black Americans are back on plantations, LGBTQIA+ individuals are back in the shadows, women are barefoot and pregnant, and landholding, gun-toting white men are the only individuals with freedom.
Three Amazon Warehouses Catch Fire; Workers Protest Unsafe Conditions With Sit-In
Amazon warehouses caught fire in New York and Alabama this past week, endangering hundreds of workers. In the unionized Staten Island facility, workers marched on managers and staged a sit-down in protest over Amazon’s disregard for their safety—and the company lashed back with mass suspensions. The HSV1 fulfillment center in Madison, a suburb of Huntsville in northern Alabama, caught fire Monday evening, October 3, for a second time in two weeks.
Worker Co-ops Organize to Make Community Finance Work for Movements
“You’re not going to finance the movement with conventional financing.” So noted Clark Arrington, who was inducted last year into the national cooperative hall of fame and is a senior fellow at Seed Commons, a community development financial institution (CDFI) that supports worker co-op development in 30 communities.
Naming What We Do Want
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Critical Race Feminism and Common Good Unionism
This article is the fourth installment in our series co-produced by Bargaining for the Common Good and NPQ, titled Building a Movement for the Common Good. In this series, we learn how and why Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) is the right strategy for our times of social crisis, featuring extreme wealth inequality and declining democracy as well as a renewed attention to labor organizing and mass uprisings for racial justice.
Stacy Davis Gates: Our Union’s Fight Is a Fight for Black Chicago
Just before the tenth anniversary of the landmark 2012 Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike, new CTU President Stacy Davis Gates sat down with Black Work Talk co-hosts Steven Pitts and Sheri Davis. They started off with the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE), which Gates co-founded in 2008, and reflected on the new politics and leadership practices CORE brought when several of its members won union office in 2010. CORE understands the ties that bind teachers, parents, and their communities.
Erica Iheme: ‘We Organize From Our Soul’
Burnout nearly took Erica Iheme out of the labor movement twice. “Our organizing culture excludes the most impacted,” Iheme said on the July 7 episode of Black Work Talk.
Danielle Phillips-Cunningham: Black Women’s History of All-Sided Labor Resistance
For more than a century, Black women’s organizations—whether explicitly working-class or not—have fed what Dr. Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham calls “comprehensive labor resistance.” The Washing Society organized the Atlanta washerwomen’s strike of 1881. The National Council of Colored Women’s Clubs, with chapters in every state, organized around voting rights and unjust incarceration of Black women and men, as well as working women’s issues.
Beverly Guy-Sheftall: All Our Oppressions are Interconnected
“Black feminism is the political idea that all forms of oppression, which are global and persistent, are interconnected and structural: white supremacy, racism, heterosexism, ableism, class disparities,” said Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, referencing bell hooks. “All of those systems of oppression are connected, and we experience them simultaneously. We have to dismantle all of those structural systems and cannot prioritize one over the other,” she said.
Mariame Kaba: Organizing is the How
In this episode of Black Work Talk, Steven Pitts and his co-host, Toussaint Losier, talk with Mariame Kaba. Mariame is one of this country’s leading abolitionist thinkers and practitioners. She has founded several projects organizing around abolitionist principles including Project NIA. Many of her writings on abolition are collected in a recent book, “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us”. We talk about Mariame’s definition of abolition and what might account for the increased interest in abolition. Guests
The Best Gift
The last time I traveled alone, and not for work, I jumped out of bed and flew to Cancun to honor my marriage anniversary shared with my late husband and late grandparents. I figured I could spend it bawling (with bourbon) at home or next to an ocean, and them flight privileges my mom blessed me with weren’t going to use themselves. So I spent one day and one night crying in all the places where we had spent our Decembers since 2009.
Love(d) at the Roots
Love: Take One i gather up each sound you left behind and stretch them on our bed each night I breathe you and become high --SoNia SanCheZ Poem No. 3 (shake loose my skin) Cancer had to work to take his breath away, cause his heartbeat called up armies. Traveled swiftly to do its dirty deeds, cause his spine was fortified by revolutionaries. Regrouped and returned with new strategies, cause his brain—a most beautiful galaxy. It may have taken his body from me, but it could not take my memories.
How We’re Preparing for Corona
Below are the ways we are personally preparing for COVID-19 should it hit our house. Most of these things we either had in our house already or I ordered on Amazon the beginning of March. It took a week or two to get some items. Some of the items listed below may be on back order, or they could have raised the prices substantially so double check before you purchase. I included links to most of the items on Amazon.
Another View -- Don Mescia and Sheri Davis: NH should learn from bail reform failures in other states
We would agree with a recent Union Leader editorial on bail requirements that stated the county prosecutors’ concerns do “warrant close inspection.”These professionals recognize what happened in states, like New Mexico and Iowa, that instituted similar cash-bail reforms, only to regret it. In fact, New Mexico Gov.
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