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Meeting Schedule

Meetings

Every 1st Tuesday 5:30-7pm

Political Education

The Southern Maine Workers’ Center is committed to creating opportunities for our members’ ongoing leadership development, and to deepening our collective political analysis. We believe in the power of connecting individual experiences to larger systems of power and oppression, and we utilize the human rights framework to guide our analysis. We know that a shared and nuanced understanding of the systems that oppress us results in better strategies and movements of resistance.

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Meetings

Every 3rd Tuesday 5:30-7pm

General Membership

We believe that working and poor people must organize together in order to transform our workplaces and communities. If we want to improve our conditions at work, win victories to improve our economic conditions, or transform our health care system we have to organize as many people as possible to take action. When we act collectively we have more power to improve conditions for everyone. All of our campaigns and programs are primarily run by our members and volunteers who work together to reach new people, organize events, create media, and more.

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Meetings

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Work With Dignity

The Work With Dignity (WWD) Committee is the worker and workplace organizing wing of the Southern Maine Workers’ Center. We aim to help workers identify, create, and implement economic justice campaigns that represent their priorities. We do this work with a focus on fostering solidarity between immigrant workers, low-wage workers, union workers, and others. Building our knowledge and skills, we work to ensure that our legal rights and our human rights are met in the workplace.

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Past Events

EventsWorker Rights

November 28th, 2023

Wage Empowerment Workshop

For months, Work With Dignity and Political Ed Committee members have been working towards a workers’ rights & organizing training focusing on wage theft, which is one of the biggest problems we’ve seen workers struggle with in Southern Maine in the past few years. It’ll cover common types of wage theft + how we can protect ourselves…

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Events

October 19th, 2023

Pumpkin Carving Party

You’re invited to SMWC’s Pumpkin Carving Party on Thursday, October 19 @ 5:30-7:30pm at 56 North St. in Portland. Another fun time brought to you by SMWC’s Membership Committee! 👻 Capitalism is scary 😧 but collective organizing scares the capitalists, and that’s what we’re all about! Come one, come all, bring the kids, costumes encouraged!…

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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

March 2nd, 2022

The Non-profit Industrial Complex Study Session

The Political Education Committee presents… a one-time study session about the non-profit industrial complex, or the “NPIC!” based on the classic book, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded. The NPIC is “an unseen web of money and power that tries to undermine people’s struggles for racial, class, economic, gender and environmental justice” (Mumia Abu-Jamal). As organizers working…

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EventsWorkers

December 21st, 2021

Celebrating Arlo

Arlo has transitioned away from his role at SMWC, which gives us all a special occasion to come together to lift up all the direct support, power, victories, and relationships they have built and dedicated themselves to these last 5 years. Please join us next Tuesday between 12:00PM and 1:00 PM to record some thoughts and appreciations for them. 

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Events

April 28th, 2021

2021 Annual Meeting: Solidarity Reaches Across the Divide

Solidarity isn’t an abstract noun, it is a real and powerful force that allows us to reach across the divisions that segregate and isolate us all. The movement we commit to would be hollow in the middle without that feeling of solidarity. It sustains us, brings deep meaning to our work, and it means that,…

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EventsCovid-19

November 7th, 2020

All Member Meeting: What Do We Do Now?

Saturday November, 7th @ 10am – 11:30am Register here:https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLScrRJXoRv5YtY…/viewform We don’t need to tell you what this election season means, what’s at stake, or how the outcome will affect you and your loved ones. What we want to do is provide a space where we can lay all of this bare, share the fear/rage/hope in…

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EventsHealthcare

June 29th, 2020

Healthcare for All: Now More than Ever – Panel & Discussion

This event will take place on June 29th, 2020 from 5:30-7:00pm over Zoom. Please register at the link below. Over 500 people and 30 organizations joined our call to Governor Janet Mills to implement universal healthcare and protect the rights of essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. We brought our demands to the Blaine House in…

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EventsHealthcare

May 7th, 2020

Southern Maine Workers’ Center delivers letter to Gov. Mills, calling for more health care coverage during COVID-19 crisis.

On Thursday, May 7th at 11am, the Southern Maine Workers’ Center will make a symbolic delivery of a letter to Gov. Mills calling on her to take action to provide more people with health care coverage during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Events

March 31st, 2020

Virtual Meeting: The Peoples Town Hall

This event will be a virtual meeting hosted on Zoom by The Southern Maine Workers Center on Tuesday, March 31st from 5:30Pm – 7:30pm. Fill out the form to register for the event and we’ll text or email you the call information before the event begins. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PDs1HgqKdJr-w7radOvXa-c474aqdqE5rsCyd8OfBmM/edit#responses

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Events

February 9th, 2020

Karaoke Fundraiser 2019

You’re invited to… The SOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS’ CENTER’s 2019 KARAOKE FUNDRAISER  What is it? The Southern Maine Workers’ Center is hosting its biggest grassroots fundraising event of the year, and we need your help! On Saturday, February 9th at 8pm, SMWC members will be gathering at the Apohadion Theater in Portland to sing their hearts…

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