Community Benefits Coalition

 Organizer, Vecinos Unidos [South Florida Jobs with Justice] Miami, FL
Salary: $35,000 - 37,000 based on qualifications
Benefits: paid vacation; sick, bereavement and parental leaves; dental, eye and health insurance

The Organization:
South Florida Jobs with Justice is a labor/community coalition with a neighborhood organizing program [Vecinos Unidos] in the Latina immigrant communities of Little Havana and mobile home parks.  We utilize direct action organizing, local policy and legal strategies to fight for the rights of working people including resident centered urban development and accountability in public contracting. SFJwJ is engaged in multi-year campaigns to ensure that local residents retain affordable housing and benefit from area development.  Vecinos Unidos is a resident-led committee leading community campaigns to make government officials and funding accountable to the working poor Latino/a residents of South Florida.
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
3 PM - doors open at 2 PM
The Lyric Theatre
819 NW 2nd Ave in Overtown

Featuring: Carolin Delgado - JWJ, Sonia Succar Ferre - Emerging Green Builders, Gihan Perera - MWC, Maw Rameau - Take Back the Land, Miami Dade County Commissioner Barbbara Jordan.

RSVP: http://livefrommainstreet.com/content/rsvp

Live From Main Street is a tour of the U.S. in Election Year 2008, hosted by popular journalist and radio personality Laura Flanders.  Live From Main Street’s goal is to develop new ways for independent media to work collaboratively to inform and support the democratic process while bringing truth and the voices of everyday Americans to the current national election conversation.

Live From Main Street will feature five town hall events, each focusing on a key national issue through a local lens. Each show will be broadcast on multiple television, radio and satellite channels and written about in print and online outlets.

Live From Main Street is produced by The Media Consortium - a member-based organization committed to strengthening the independent media landscape. The Media Consortium is comprised of 45 of the nation’s leading independent journalism outlets with a collective reach to over 5 million people a month.

SEED305–A Political Education Project

What:
In a series of twelve workshops, led by activists from leading local grassroots organizations, Seed305 participants will discuss important societal issues such as poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, identity, injustice and our histories. These workshops will provide an important place for people to talk about their experiences and to understand the connection between the struggles of different communities.

Who:
Young people* who are interested in developing their leadership, expanding their knowledge of the social justice movement, and building connections to local activism. People of color, queer, gender variant, working class, women, and those with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

*People of color, queer, working class, women, and those with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Nobody will be turned away based on age.

When:
Starting Monday, August 18th and meeting every week until November 3rd.

Click here for application!

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE August 1st!

Check us out at http://www.myspace.com/seed305.

For more information and to submit applications, please contact Seed305@gmail.com.

Right to the City’s Challenges to the Movement:

Challenge #1 - Building the base of grassroots organizations to scale and building the leadership of the base.
Challenge #2 - Expanding alliances with new and different sectors  to win power
Challenge # 3 - Amplifying our voice and shifting public debate.
Challenge #4 - Building democratic and economic institutions in order to maintain and support our work.
Challenge #5 - Building public governance through voter engagement and participation in governmental structures.

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Miami - June 20, 2008 - Skeletons danced in the sky above the restless crowd gathered in the parking lot of the Bethel A & E church in Overtown,  the historic African-American neighborhood in Miami.  Over 350 resident representatives of seven U.S. cities bore cardboard coffins with their cities’ name blazing in red paint across the side. A NOLA second-line, To Be Continued…, blared out old standards pushing the crowd forward. As the March on the Mayors took the streets in Miami, uniting urban struggles for racial and economic justice from across the country under the demand for a democratic human Right to the City, the sky opened. But oceans of rain could not drown th espirit f the crowd.

The March on the Mayors, escorted by a phalanx of police, marched from Overtown through Downtown Miami to just outside the InterContinental hotel where over 200 of the nations mayors were meeting at the U.S. conference of mayors.
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Human Services Coalition, an innovative, dynamic, nonprofit “learning” organization has the following full-time positions open:

Program Director, Youth Leadership Program

Advocacy Director

Grants & Development Coordinator

Program Coordinator

Benefits Specialist

Read job descriptions after the jump!

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Follow the jump to read about the student and community  effort which saved the FIU Labor Center.

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Joint Press Statement
May 29, 2008

SEIU AND FISHER ISLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

REACH AGREEMENT

― BREAKTHROUGH ACCORD HAILED AS WIN-WIN BY MANAGEMENT AND LABOR

Miami, FL — Fisher Island Community Association and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, based in New York City, today announced a breakthrough agreement between the union and the private company in one of the nation’s most affluent communities.  The agreement addresses wages and benefits for property services employees in the first community association in Miami to become unionized.
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March on the Mayors Volunteer Orientation
Saturday May 31
Noon - 3 PM
Miami Workers Center
6127 NW 7th Ave
Volunteers are needed to help pull off what will be a historic national mobilization demanding the Right to the City. We need artists, students, drivers, outreachers, poeterers,  activists, documenters, everything!

RSVP Now: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/811/t/3678/event/index.jsp?event_KEY=41599
March on the Mayors, hosted by the Right to the City Alliance, will be two days of summits and actions coinciding with the National Conference of Mayors. We will be putting forward a people-led platform for our cities that demands and creates a human right to the city for all people.

The Community Benefits Coalition presents:

“Miami Noir: The Arthur E. Teele Story”
Wine and Cheese Film Screening
FREE!

Hour-long documentary examining hte rise and infamous fall of the former Miami City Commissioner Art Teele, exploring the outcry from Miami’s black community, journalistic ethics, and the nature of the State Attorney’s investigation into Teele’s life.

Stay for a discussion after the film!

June 26th, 6pm at SEIU Local 11, 333 W 41st Street, Miami Beach

More info: miamicbc@gmail.com