4 Things We’re Doing to Transform Miami-Dade County and Beyond
March 2024 Newsletter
2024 is a big year for MWC. We’re celebrating our 25th anniversary, advancing grassroots campaigns for tenant and worker justice, and putting our plans into action. Last Fall, the Board, Staff, and Members of Miami Workers Center engaged in a strategic planning process to clarify our mission, vision, and make a plan for the next 5 years. This process culminated at our Membership Congress, where members voted on items that would determine our direction as an organization. We’re excited to share with you our 4 priorities for the years to come, as we seek to transform Miami-Dade County into a place where we all can live in our full dignity with autonomy over our bodies, our labor, and our neighborhoods.
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- Interested in supporting our campaigns? Sign on to get involved for Tenants’ Right to Counsel and Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights
#1 – Building a powerful, leaderful movement
We’re focused on growing our membership and capacity to be deeply rooted in communities across Miami-Dade County.
#2 – Organizing for economic inclusion and justice for all
We’re focused on advancing working-class people-led solutions to the corporate greed crisis.
- Sign on to support the Right to Counsel campaign’s goal of increasing tenant’s access to legal counsel when facing an eviction.
- Sign on to support the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights campaign. Visit miamidomesticworkers.org to learn more.
#3 – Cultivating resilience for our people + organization
As we organize for transformative change, we’re focused on making sure we are prepared to support our community through the impacts of challenging living, working, and climate conditions. Your donations help us build our infrastructure and allow us to provide interpretation to host trilingual meetings to ensure language justice, facilitate mutual aid, and be an Community Emergency Operations Center in cases of natural disaster.
#4 – Shifting culture with people-led narratives
We’re focused on combating toxic narratives that blame ourselves or other marginalized groups for our conditions, and seeding narratives that build working-class, intergenerational, multicultural, and multiracial solidarity.
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“We have to turn thinkers into fighters and fighters into thinkers.”
General Gordon Baker
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Every month we host a variety of programs to advance our mission, increase community access to information about their rights, and cultivate spaces of community and healing.
In the News
The Miami Herald published a story about how the recent arrival of immigrants into Florida is impacting Miami-Dade County’s housing crisis and the City of Hialeah, after comments Mayor Esteban Bovo made that insinuated recent immigration is to blame. Our response to the Miami Herald upon their request for comment:
“We reject the notion that people and families seeking refuge in the United States are to blame for the housing crisis. State Representatives in Tallahassee who are supposed to be representing the best interests of their constituents and communities in Miami-Dade, are actually protecting the economic interests of wealthy developers and real estate lobbyists and stripping away the rights of working-class renters and families. We believe Miami should be a place where both long-time residents and recently arrived immigrants can live in dignity, without fear of becoming unhoused. We need bold action from elected leaders who are going to have the people’s back, not try to turn us against one another.”