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The Center's affiliate organization,
Western
State Strategies, is continuing our traditional work
on campaign finance reform, supporting voter-owned elections
and promoting a more transparent election system that
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Help Western States Center
support and grow the progressive movement in the West! |
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""[The gathering went] beyond my expectations and I have gained knowledge that [will] make me a better organizer by understanding the concepts of Base Building."
- Participant in Base Building Project gathering |
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Building off of the success of the first Base Building Project, which worked with six community based organizations in Oregon and Washington for over 18 months, in June 2007 the RACE program began its work with another seven community based organizations led by and serving communities of color in Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. The program is designed to help organizations:
- Strengthen their leadership development and political education programs
- Develop or improve the organization's structure and systems to better involve new and disengaged members
- Build strong frameworks and organizing that works from a racial justice perspective; and
- Advance peer-relationships with other groups in the region that share a movement-building approach to membership development
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2007 Base Building Project Participant
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| Center for Intercultural Organizing
(Portland, OR) is a diverse, grassroots organization working to build a multi-racial, multicultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights. CIO leads grassroots campaigns designed to protect and expand immigrant and refugee rights. Programs include: intergenerational leadership development, organizing trainings, policy advocacy and civic engagement, and community education. |
Native American Youth and Family Center (Portland, OR) works to enrich the lives of Native youth and families through education, community involvement, and culturally specific programming. It provides family support, activities to enhance cultural identity, and opportunities for positive learning experiences. The Youth and Elder Council is an intergenerational effort to improve community ties and improve quality of life for urban Indian communities.
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Oregon Action (Portland, OR) organizes people on the down side of power to work together building power, winning campaigns, and making real change in people’s lives. OA is a multi issue organization that works on health care, election reform, eliminating racial profiling, and expanding affordable housing. The Racial Justice Campaign is working on issues of racial profiling within the Portland Police Department and advocating for changes in policy and practice to ensure equitable treatment for all Portland community members.
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| Seattle Young People’s Project (Seattle, WA) is a youth-led, adult supported organization that empowers youth (ages 13-18) to express themselves and to take action on the issues that affect their lives. SYPP's newest project, the Education Justice Campaign is currently focused on working to remove the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) as a graduation requirement. Currently, over 50% of students in Washington state are failing the WASL test. |
Unete (Medford, OR) is a volunteer-led movement of farmworkers and immigrants in rural Southern Oregon educating their community and advocating for worker rights, humane immigration policy, and full participation in the decision-making processes affecting their lives. Unete is the only Latino-led non-profit in the Rogue Valley.
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| VOZ Workers Rights Education Project (Portland, OR) seeks to empower immigrant workers, particularly day laborers, to gain control over their working conditions and to exercise their collective power to address the issues they face. VOZ is a worker-led organization whose membership organizes to secure and promote their rights through organizing, leadership development and community education. |
| Wind River Alliance (Ethete, WY) is a cross-cultural community-based organization dedicated to the health and protection of the Wind River watershed. The Wind River is Wyoming's largest watershed, and much of it flows through the Wind River Indian Reservation, home to the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes. Wind River Alliance organizes Native American communities and their allies in the fight for environmental justice on the Wind River reservation. |
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