The Center for Civic Participation

Miami Workers Center

VOTER WORK

The Centerís most significant achievement has been the initiation and development of Low Income Families Fighting Together (LIFFT) ñ a grassroots membership organization of and for current and former welfare recipients, low-wage workers, and public housing residents that has become a growing force in Miami-Dade County. In these efforts the Miami Workersí Center joins arms with South Floridaís low-income people to address issues of poverty and oppression within the regionís most oppressed communities. |

DESCRIPTION

The Miami Workers Center is a strategy and organizing center for low-income communities and low-wage workers in Miami-Dade County. Initiated in March 1999, the Centerís mission is to work to end poverty and oppression. We do this by building the power of grassroots organizations made up of and led by the people most affected by these problems and by assisting in the development of a broad-based social justice movement in South Florida. The Center conducts its work by:

initiating and developing grassroots organizations; developing the strategic and technical capacity of leaders through the hands-on organizing and intensive political education; and increasing the voice, participation, and leadership of no- and low-wage workers (including the unemployed, welfare recipients, and service sector workers) and their organizations in local/national policy-making, community initiatives, and the broader social justice movement.

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