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Arnulfo Manriquez – Equity and Families Are at Center of His Work
Hero’s name: Arnulfo Manriquez Home city: Chula Vista, California Organization affiliation: MAAC How does the person’s work advance social justice? What is the person’s vision for an equitable world?...
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Maria Elena Ramos – An Immigrant Organizes for Kids and Technology
Hero’s name: Maria Elena Ramos Home city: San Francisco Organization affiliation: Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth How does the person’s work advance social justice? What is the person’s...
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Derrick Ayson – A California Educator Who Stands Up for What Is Right
Hero’s name: Derrick Ayson Home city: Los Angeles How does the person’s work advance social justice? What is the person’s vision for an equitable world? “Derrick Ayson was born in Stockton, California...
View ArticleGabriela Castaneda – Supports Bridges and Hugs on U.S.-Mexico Border
Hero’s name: Gabriela Castaneda Home city: El Paso, Texas Organization affiliation: Border Network for Human Rights How does the person’s work advance social justice? What is the person’s vision for an...
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Ninfa Aleman – An Empowered, Confident Heroine in South Texas
Hero’s name: Ninfa Aleman Home city: Brownsville, Texas Organization affiliation: La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) How does the person’s work advance social justice? What is the person’s vision for an...
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Anza Becnel – A NOLA Organizer Helps People Gain ‘Their Lives Back’
Hero’s name: Anza Becnel Home city: New Orleans Organization affiliation: Stand With Dignity at the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice How does the person’s work advance social justice?...
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Trump’s First 100 Days: Workers Get Pummeled. People Fight Back.
As the contours of Donald Trump’s presidency over its first 100 days – and the priorities of the Republican-majority Congress – take shape, the economic impact on working families of this agenda is...
View ArticleHow Social Justice Movements Start
Read the Equal Voice News special report, “How Social Justice Movements Begin,” and the companion story, “Taking Networks to a New Level: Foundation Fuels a Movement.”
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Why I Fight for Clean Water in the Cumberland Mountains
I grew up in the Cumberland Mountains near Jellico, Tennessee. My great-grandfather was a coal miner and my grandfather was a coal miner, on my mother’s side. I was the first in my family to go to...
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Troubled Waters: Tennessee Families Stand Up for a Clean Environment
CLAIRFIELD, Tenn. — On the northern slope of Cooper Ridge – a long, low-slung rise in Tennessee’s Cumberland Mountains – sits the 127-year-old Hatfield Cemetery, a well-maintained strip of...
View ArticleThe Missing Class
On a crisp morning in October, 300 low-income families and their allies – all members of a movement known as the Equal Voice Coalition – gathered at a hotel in San Francisco with an ambitious goal:...
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The Invisible Millions: Going Door-To-Door To Find The Uncounted
When the government announces a fact or figure, be it a complex budget forecast or simple school enrollment, conventional wisdom holds that the numbers are, more or less, accurate. Not so with the U.S....
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Poverty, Class and the Recession
In America, where we celebrate success above all, the worst thing a person can be is poor. Getting by on $19,080 a year, Tinsa Hall says, "There's nothing left to save." Photographer: Mike Kane For...
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America’s Families Speak Out
Shattering stereotypes, overcoming cultural and language differences, and testing new technical skills, thousands of families, of all ages and ethnicities, gathered in person and online May 20 for the...
View ArticleStanding for Communities: ‘The Power of Collective’ (video)
Elsa Gonzalez had never thought of herself as a community organizer. But when Hurricane Dolly destroyed her family’s home in South Texas, she knew she had to do something to stand up for her family and...
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A Living Wage is an Equal Voice
Take a look at your bills, starting with essentials: What do you pay for food, housing, clothing, health care, utilities and transportation? How much would it take for your family just to get by? Could...
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Poor: No Longer a Four-Letter Word
What does it mean to be poor in America? Just as importantly, who decides how poverty is defined? Let’s start with the dictionary. According to the professional word-wranglers at Merriam-Webster,...
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When Walking the Walk Means Taking a Step Back
Every great social movement has been led by those most affected. The movement to end poverty in America and to ensure that all families become full stakeholders in the American Dream is no exception....
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National Organization Seeks to Be Voice of Poor Families
ATLANTA — Each day, the structural issues that keep more than 45 million Americans in poverty in the world’s most advanced democracy are present. There are racial and class divisions illustrated by the...
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