June 13, 2024
The Southern Maine Workers’ Center is hiring an organizer to join our staff collective!
What is SMWC? The Southern Maine Workers’ Center is a member-led organization with the mission to create a worker-led movement that improves the lives, working conditions, and terms of employment for Maine workers. We promote worker justice through a combination of anti-racist political education, organizing, and advocacy. We are organizers first and foremost, and we…
Read MoreOctober 3rd, 2023
Caring Is Creepy: A Halloween-themed Zine-making Party
On Tuesday, October 3rd from 5:30-7, join our Political Education Committee for CARING IS CREEPY!!! a Halloween-themed zine-making party to explore and create art about the spooky horrors of care work in this terrifying economy! 😱 What to expect from a zine party:casual time to talk about work, spooky things, and whatever is on our…
Read MoreAugust 31st, 2023
Karaoke Night 🎤 🎶 Dreams Rising
Help us raise money for workers’ rights and the futures we dream of! What does the community of your dreams look like? We want to build it together! Don’t miss the biggest worker-centered, future-dreaming, community-building night of the year with the Worker’s Center on Thursday, August 31st at 7pm with karaoke and other performances, celebration, fun and connection. Help…
Read MoreSeptember 1, 2021
Solidarity School
This Fall, we are diving into SMWC’s first ever Solidarity School! This seven-session political education event is focused on understanding SMWC’s core values and theory of change. We’ll learn about human rights and how, through organizing, we build the collective power necessary to win them. We will also examine the root causes of oppression and how we build…
Read MoreAugust 24, 2021
The Political Economy Study
Abridged Summary Click here to read en français! The Southern Maine Workers’ Center is committed to putting working class and poor people first in all of our endeavors. We undertook this political economy study to help prioritize our efforts as we continue to build a strategic and transformative movement towards racial, economic, worker and gender…
Read MoreMay 4, 2021
T.O.A.S.T Workshop Series: Transformative Organizing And Skills Training
This seven-part series of organizing skills and theory will start on Thursday, May 6th and run every other Thursday from 5:30-7:30pm through July 29th. Workshops will focus on building some of the basic skills needed for community organizing and building grassroots power. The series will be focused on applying skills to SMWC’s practice, but friends…
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