Events

October 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…

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Events

August 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…

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Events

September 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…

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Resources

August 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…

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Events

May 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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