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Co-Governance and Participatory Democracy in Action Map
As we come together in these perilous times, here are some powerful examples of community and government working together to build power and fight for our rights through co-governance strategies. You can learn more about these examples in this interactive map. …
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Listen: The Workers Bill of Rights With Britain Forsyth & Nadiyah Muhammad of Step Up Louisiana

From Innovations to Ecosystems: Highlights from the Remixing Democracy Webinar

What’s Next After The Elections?

A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

Root Causes of Housing and Land Injustice

Watch: Populist Threats: Building Democratic Resilience with Participatory Communities

Read DSC Decodes: Project 2025 and the Perils of Inadequate Education Reforms

National Week of Action Against School Pushout

Listen: Grassroots Democracy with Molly Martin & Erika L. Anthony

Two Twin Cities Housing Developers Commit to Historic Program Aimed at Ending Exploitation in the Non-union Construction Sector

Join the Dignity in Schools Week of Action Kickoff Event!

We’re Hiring! Operations and Membership Coordinator

Shareholders Call on Nike to #PayYourWorkers, Commit to WSR

New Video: What is Co-Governance?

Seattle Is Walking Back Its Promises on Community-Led Anti-Displacement. Is Your City Next?

Listen: Puerto Rico & Hawai’i: Building Power with Energy Democracy. Featuring Keani Rawlins-Fernandez, Ruth Santiago, Todd Yamashita, & Niki Franco

Jamie Tyberg has joined Partners for Dignity & Rights as our New Director of Development

End of School Year Wrap Up From the Dignity in Schools Campaign

Press Release: The People Saved RJ and Mental Health Access – Mayor Thwarts Expansion

Chiquita Ruling Exposes Failure of Corporate Self-Regulation

Listen: Changing the World Through Abolition: Manju Rajendran of Durham Beyond Policing

Listen: Behind the organizing to Stop Cop City, with Kamau Franklin of Community Movement Builders

Hiring: Senior Director of Development

Join the May Day Call for International Workers’ Rights!

11 Lessons From 11 Years After the Rana Plaza Disaster

Celebrating Women Leaders in Worker’s Rights: Luisa Moreno & Veronica Mendez Moore

Celebrating Women’s History Month with DSC’s Women Leaders!

Watch: Puerto Rico & Hawaii: Building Power with Energy Democracy

Read: A New Tool to Take on Predatory Landlords and Fight Evictions

Why Fair Trade Produce Labels Are Bogus

Listen: A World Without Police: Featuring Geo Maher, Andrew Hairston, & Tafari Melisizwe

Pursuing Co-Governance in Chicago

Partners for Dignity & Rights Calls for an Immediate Ceasefire and an End to the Occupation

Majelia Ampadu has joined Partners for Dignity & Rights as our New Development Coordinator

Listen: Cooperatives Challenging Capitalism: Tamara Prosper and Tamah Yisrael of Cooperation New Orleans

Watch: Governing Power: Movement Strategies in the US and the Global South

Niki Franco has Joined Partners for Dignity & Rights as our Organizing and Partnerships Director

Hiring: Interim Communications Consultant for Dignity in Schools Campaign

Listen: Our Struggle is to Indigenize: Judith Le Blanc of Native Organizers Alliance on The Next World Podcast

Listen: Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools: With Janice Harper, Kameisha Smith, Katie Coates & Tafari Melisizwe

Sign the Petition to Support a New Social Contract

Listen: Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy Podcast

Join Partners for Dignity & Rights at The 22nd Century Conference

Statement Against The Criminalization of Solidarity

Article: The Dirty Little Secret—Rising Property Values Are Incompatible with Affordability

Hiring: Development Coordinator, Partners for Dignity & Rights

Article: How to Build Multiracial Democracy at the Local Level

Listen: Rukia Lumumba from the People’s Advocacy Institute, Jackson, Mississippi

Article: Building Bottom-Up Democracy Through Co-Governance

Job Announcement: Organizing and Partnerships Director

Watch: “Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy” Report Launch and Webinar

Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Acknowledgements

Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: In Conclusion

Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Co-Governance and Participatory Democracy in Action

Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Worker Powered Co-Enforcement in the Bay Area

Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Restorative Practice in Paterson, NJ

Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: People’s Assemblies in Jackson, MS

Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Introduction

Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy: Executive Summary

Sarah Newell of WSRN Discusses Corporate vs. Worker-driven Social Responsibility

Job Announcement: Dignity in Schools Campaign-New York Membership and Campaign Director

The Year in Worker-driven Social Responsibility

Dairy Workers Call on Hannafords for Justice

Worker-driven Social Responsibility Model Adopted by More Workers and Industries

Dignity in Schools Week of Action

Listen: Black Land and Black Liberation with Njera Keith and Kristina Brown of 400+1

Listen: Seventeen Years After Hurricane Katrina, Still Organizing for Education Justice

Listen: Art and Abolition With Bryonn Bain, Author of Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape

Watch: From the Ground Up: Community Centered Policies to Scale Equitable Development – From our New Social Contract Webinar Series

Listen: Food Justice and Black Liberation on The Next World Podcast

Victory: Victoria’s Secret pays $8.3 million dollars in wage theft settlement

Advancing Housing Justice: Three Key Steps

Our Response to the Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v Wade

Dignity in Schools Statement on the Killings in Uvalde, TX

Grief, Rage and Resistance: Our Statement on the Killings in Buffalo

Video: Rob Robinson on Panel on Poverty and Human Rights

New Social Contract Webinar Series: Cultivating Food Justice

A New Investment in Our Future

Solidarity with the Shackdwellers Movement in South Africa

On International Women’s Day 2022, We Join With Women on the Front Lines

The American Prospect on Put People First! PA’s Public Advocate Campaign

Remembering Paul Farmer

Our Work for Economic Democracy

New Social Contract Webinar Series: Privatization or Economic Democracy?

Jessica Chaves Tavares has joined Dignity in Schools Campaign as National Field Organizer

Announcing our New Co-Executive Director!

Watch: Partners for Dignity & Rights Co-Founders in Dignity in Schools Discussion

Dignity in Schools Campaign in New Book

Watch: Organizing for Victory: Fighting for Healthcare for All in New York

The Transformative Potential of Community Land Trusts

WATCH: Affordable for Whom?: An Online Summit on Community Controlled, Deeply Affordable Housing

Watch: How do we invest in our communities?

Democratizing Workers’ Compensation: Our Final Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter

Labor and Community Organizations Call on Health Care Task Force to Prioritize Human Rights

We Must Fight Privatization of Medicare and Medicaid to Win Universal Health Care

New Video: The Billionaires Exploiting Garment Workers

Affordable for Whom?: An Online Summit on Community Controlled, Deeply Affordable Housing

Letter to Congress: It’s time to Expand and Improve Medicare

Job Announcement: Co-Executive Director

Latest on Partners for Dignity & Rights in the Media

New Video: Pay Women Garment Workers a Living Wage!

Partners for Dignity & Rights Announces Co-Executive Director Leadership Transition

June 5 Rally & March for Police-Free Schools

Partners for Dignity & Rights Joins 48 Organizations in Call on Biden to Include Bold Drug Pricing Reforms in the American Families Plan, Use the Savings to Expand Medicare

Listen: Ben Palmquist, Program Director, Health Care and Economic Democracy, on Citations Needed Podcast

Is Conviction Justice?

Listen: Liberating Housing on The Next World Podcast

Rising Against Anti-Asian Discrimination and Violence

Don’t Let Hospital CEO’s Shut Down Care

How the U.S. Health Care System is and isn’t Working

Beyond Survival One Year Later

New Video: Respect Garment Workers!

Democratizing Governance to Advance Health Justice and Economic Democracy

Interview on Medicare for All and health justice narratives on Oregon community radio

The Struggle for Healthcare Justice: It’s Movement Time

How to Change the Media Discourse to Win Medicare for All and a Multiracial Democracy

Health, Racial Disparities, and Economic Justice

The COVID Jungle: Chicagoland’s Essential Food Workers and the Need for Vaccination Priority

New Episode of The Next World Podcast: M. Adams of Freedom Inc

Honoring Our Power – 15 Years of Dignity and Rights

Believe in NYC Schools: Safety Without Policing

New Episode of The Next World Podcast: Sterling Johnson and Jenn Bennetch of Philadelphia Housing Action

Whatever Happens, We are Ready to Keep Fighting

Watch: It’s Time for a New Social Contract

The Stakes Could Not Be Higher

Hiring: Director of Development, Partners for Dignity & Rights

#PoliceFreeSchools Learning Institute Schedule: Join Dignity in Schools Campaign-NY Members for a Week of Radical Learning

Join the National Week of Action Against School Pushout: October 3 – 11, 2020

Request For Qualifications: Research Consultant on Deeply Affordable Housing Development

Paid Internship with Partners for Dignity & Rights: Fair Development Research

The Power of Labor

We are Excited to Announce our new Co-Executive Director!

UN expert urges a ban on evictions during COVID-19 pandemic

Housing Now! Listen to the Latest Episode of The Next World Podcast

Join us in Saying No to Austerity and Police Budgets, Yes to Democracy and Human Needs

Watch: Honoring Our Power: Community Solutions in a Time of Crisis

How to Make This Year’s Eviction Crisis Our Last

Can We Learn from COVID-19?

Solidarity Statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo (South African Shack Dwellers Movement) to Black Lives Matter

Defund Police, Invest in Transformative Justice

To Fight COVID–19, We Need to Build Worker Power and Worker Safety

Addressing Our Real Deficits: Democracy and Human Rights

Building Worker Power into Standard Setting, Monitoring and Enforcement

Watch: Naomi Klein, Maurice Mitchell, and Cathy Albisa on a New Social Contract

No Turning Back: How the Pandemic Opens the Door to a New Economy for People and the Planet

The U.S. Has Eliminated Thousands of Hospital Beds in the Last Ten Years, Exacerbating the Current COVID-19 Crisis

From Free CovidCare to Medicare For All

A Goodbye from Cathy Albisa, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Partners for Dignity & Rights

Reports from the Frontlines of COVID-19

Calls to Action in Response to COVID-19

Watch: New Hampshire People’s Issues Forum Supports A New Social Contract for Workers

Our Statement on COVID-19/Coronavirus and Human Rights

Single-Payer Health Care Did Not Fail in Vermont

[Closed] Part-Time Health Care Justice Research Assistant

Watch: Senator Bernie Sanders endorses A New Social Contract for Workers

Listen: Do We Need a New Social Contract?

New Social Contract Tour Coming to a City Near You

National Economic and Social Rights Initiative is now Partners for Dignity & Rights

Black Lives Matter at School Week, Feb. 3-7, 2020

Watch this new video from the Worker-driven Social Responsibility Network

Vermont Workers’ Center Medicaid Assembly at the State House

Jobs for All: A Manifesto

Building Dignity and Respect

Commemorating Human Rights Day

Save The Date for our 15th Anniversary Celebration

Commemorating Indigenous Resistance

Senator Bernie Sanders Endorses New Social Contract for Workers

Watch: Philly Organizers on Building a New Social Contract

Building Worker Power: Moving Beyond Standards to Enforcement

Join Dignity in Schools Campaign for 10th National Week of Action Against School Pushout

Why the Argument that Medicare for All Will Curtail “Freedom” Is So, So Wrong

Take Action! Make Big Polluters Pay to Address the Climate Crisis They’ve Caused

The Future Belongs to Globalists

A New Social Contract for Workers – See Report

Expect More Health Industry Spin At Thursday’s Democratic Debate

Partners for Dignity & Rights Director Cathy Albisa to Receive Human Rights Award

New Social Contract Tour

National Affordable for Whom Conference – 2019

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Summer 2019

Economists endorsed a unified public insurance system, not a fractured multi-payer insurance system

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on how the health insurance industry warped media coverage

REPORT: Media Repeating Insurance Industry Talking Points

More than 250 economists sign letter backing Medicare for All

Responding to Rising Tide of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

Leader of Brazil Landless Workers’ Movement Visits NYC

Our Statement on Recent Arsons in the U.S. South

Save The Date for Grounding Reparations: Community Land Ownership & Racial Equity

The Nation on “The Human-Rights Agenda Underlying the 2019 Medicare for All Bill”

Our statement on attacks on Muslims in New Zealand

Our Statement on International Women’s Day

Common Dreams: Jayapal’s Medicare for All Bill ‘Sets a New Standard’ for Guaranteeing Healthcare as a Human Right

New Release: Human Rights Assessment of Medicare for All Act of 2019

What is the national health care debate really about? Splinter breaks it down.

Protest expected Wednesday afternoon outside county government building against UPMC Pinnacle closure

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Winter 2019

The next six months in the politics of universal health care

Punitive Policies Target Low-Wage Workers, Create Barriers to Workers’ Comp

Workers’ comp news from around the country

Put People First! Pennsylvania Members Fight to Keep Hospital Open

Medicaid work requirements don’t work. Maine was right to reject them.

On MLK Day: Add Your Name Supporting A New Social Contract

Mainers organize to defend Medicaid

Press Release: Students of Color and Community Organizations From Across the Country Respond to Federal Commission on School Safety Findings

We Support Love Knows No Borders: A Moral Call for Migrant Justice

Courage and Commitment on Human Rights Day

Partners for Dignity & Rights Joins With People’s Demands for Climate Justice

What do the midterm election results mean for health care?

Our Statement on the Killings at the Tree of Life * Or L’Simcha Congregation

Our Statement on the Killing of Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones in Jeffersontown, Kentucky

Report on UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing Visit to New York City

We Stand in Solidarity with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Communities

Maine Rally for Universal Health Care and Against Attacks on Medicaid

Labor Trafficking Case Exposes Endemic Abuse in Minnesota’s Construction Industry

Thousands Across the U.S. Join the March for Black Women

Complaint Filed Against Auditing Company for Ignoring Fatal Flaws in Garment Factory

Congressional Women’s Caucus Hearing on Workplace Sexual Harassment Spotlights Fair Food Program

PUT PEOPLE FIRST! PA STATEWIDE WEEK OF ACTION

Victory in Baltimore: 20 Million Dollars for Permanently Affordable Housing

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Summer 2018

Healthcare is a Human Right Collaborative arrives in Hazleton

Watch: The New Social Contract: A Framework for Change

Open Democracy Article Highlights Advantages of Worker-Driven Social Responsibility

Dismissing Water as a Human Right is a Dangerous Path

Partners for Dignity & Rights at the Single Payer Strategy Conference

Medicaid Organizing Updates

Supporting a New Poor People’s Campaign

We Stand with Families Targeted for Abuse

Building a Poor People’s Movement for Our Right to Healthcare

Wendy’s Can Run But Not Hide From its Responsibility to Workers

Photos and Video From the launch of A New Social Contract: Collective Solutions Built by and for Communities!

U.S. leads in income inequality and moving ‘full steam ahead to make itself more unequal’

Responsible Job Creation Act, New Temp Work Law, Goes Into Effect

Watch: A New Social Contract: Launch Event

A New Social Contract: Collective Solutions Built by and for Communities

Introduction Of City Charter Ballot Petition That Will Mandate Citizen Participation In Budget Making

Introduction of Speculation Tax with entire City Council sponsorship

Watch: Mia Charlene White, Imara Jones, and Cathy Albisa on a New Social Contract

Campaign Led by ARISE Chicago Leads to Bill Creating New Office of Labor Standards Enforcement

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Spring 2018

Launching A New Social Contract Promoting Bold and Transformative Community-Driven Solutions to Inequity

Debunking False Health Care Solutions on The Laura Flanders Show

State Bill Championed by Chicago Worker Centers Would Create New Enforcement Tool for Workers

New Report: Advancing Gender Justice Through Worker-driven Social Responsibility

Partners for Dignity & Rights joins Healthy California for a legislative hearing, rally, and lobby day at the State Capitol

“How Power is Built from the Bottom”: CTUL, Minneapolis’ Worker Center Movement

Racial & Economic Equity, Not Market, Should Be North Star of Local Budget Policy

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Fall 2017

The Growing Movement for Worker-Driven Social Responsibility

New York Times: Ben & Jerry’s Strikes Deal to Improve Migrant Dairy Workers’ Conditions

Single Payer Is on the National Agenda—And It’s Thanks to People’s Movements

The grassroots activists who paved the way for single-payer health care’s political moment

Transformative Solutions to Guarantee Workers’ Rights

Reflecting on Charlottesville

Leveraging “Resiliency”

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Summer 2017

Data Shows Texas Employers Shift Costs of Workplace Injuries Onto Workers, the Public

Wake Forest Law Review: Preventing Forced Labor in Corporate Supply Chains: The Fair Food Program and Worker Driven Social Responsibility

Read in Truthout: Poverty Wages, Deportations, Wage Theft, Cockroaches: Farmworkers Demand Dignity from Ben & Jerry’s

Health Is a Right — Not a Commodity

Whose Dissent is Putting Them in Danger?

The Senate Health Care Bill Is an Assault on Human Rights

Wealthy Speculators Drive Up Home Prices in L.A. A New Tax on Them Could Make Housing Affordable

Shutting Out the Public from the Senate Healthcare Bill Isn’t Just Antidemocratic: It’s Deadly

From Coast to Coast: California shows that the road to universal, publicly funded health care runs through the states.

Prominent Human Rights Organizations Send Ben & Jerry’s Letter in Support of Milk with Dignity

Enrique Balcazar: “Why I am Marching to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Plant”

VIDEO: How A $40 Million Affordable Housing Fund Could Transform Baltimore

In These Times: Trumpcare 2.0 Is a Death Bill. It’s Time to Fight for the System We Want

Workplaces in Chicago Have ‘Become Dangerous and Abusive Sweatshops’: Study

New Study Finds “More Sweatshops than Starbucks” in Chicago

REPORT RELEASE: Challenging the Business of Fear

IL Survey of 300 Low-Wage Workers: Some Face Denial of Workers’ Comp Benefits, Retaliation

Workers Face Retaliation for Speaking Out: Report

Study Focuses On Retaliation Against Low-Wage Workers

Workers’ Comp Hub Newsletter: Winter/Spring 2017

Baltimore Mayor Backs Public Funds for Community Land Trusts to Fight Displacement

Released from Jail, Dairy Worker Leaders Take Action at Ben & Jerry’s Harvard Square, Next up, Scoop Shops everywhere on Tuesday, April 4!

Beyond Washington Politicking, the Real Health Care Story Is in the States

Radio Dispatch interview with Ben Palmquist and Nijmie Dzurinko on the failire of the AHCA and grassroots Healthcare Is a Human Right organizing

Ellen Schwartz on the arrest of human rights defenders José Enrique Balcazar Sanchez and Zully Victoria Palacios Rodriguez

Human Rights Leaders from Migrant Justice Targeted in Vermont

OpEd: UVMMC’S Path to a Health Care Monopoly

What the CBO revealed about the American Health Care Act

Professor Darrick Hamilton’s 10-Point Plan for a New Social Contract

Why We Need an Alternative Vision, Not Alternative Facts

Tomato Pickers Win Higher Pay. Can Other Workers Use Their Strategy?

The Growing Grassroots: A conversation with Cait Vaughan

Five Key Things to Know about the Republican Health Care Plan

¿Son justas las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores temporales?

Empleados Temporales Exigen Mejores Beneficios

Groups Claim Illinois Businesses Are Taking Advantage of Temp Workers

Lawmaker, Advocates Denounce Illinois Temp Worker Mistreatment

New Data Shows Decrease in Arrests and Summonses in Schools; Communities Call for Further Decrease in School Policing

Movement for Black Lives Pushes for Victories City by City

Youth and Parents will Continue the Fight for Quality Public Education for All Students

We Don’t Need a “Temporary Economy.” We Need a Responsible Job Creation Act Now

Students and Parents Across the Country Continue to Oppose Betsy DeVos’ Nomination for Secretary of Education

The latest on the attacks on health care
