En marzo y abril de 2022, The Action Lab lideró una delegación de aprendizaje compuesta por algunos de los organizadores comunitaries y laborales más dinámiques de los Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico, con el objetivo de colaborar con organizaciones de izquierda y de base en Chile en torno al proyecto internacional compartido de poner fin al neoliberalismo y construir un mundo basado en la dignidad humana y la liberación. Esta es la primera de muchas oportunidades que The Action Lab organizará para construir relaciones y solidaridad con socios alineados en todo el mundo.
Los eventos dramáticos que se desarrollaron en Chile en los últimos años, que culminaron con la elección por plebiscito de Asambleas Constituyentes encargadas de reescribir la constitución de Pinochet, crean una oportunidad única en la vida para que las organizaciones comunitarias en los Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico aprendan sobre modelos de reforma estructural de los estragos de una economía política neoliberal. La combinación de movilización masiva, compromiso político democrático, apoyo de organizaciones de base y participación de los sectores feministas, jóvenes e indígenas de la clase trabajadora crea una mezcla dinámica de modelos emergentes de los cuales las organizaciones de Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico pueden aprender.
Consulta el itinerario a continuación, que lista a los muchos activistas inspiradores y valientes que compartieron sus perspectivas en conversaciones con la delegación. Nuestra delegación incluyó a personas con raíces profundas en Chile y sus movimientos, así como a personas con la capacidad de movilizar gente y recursos en los Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico. Además de les líderes de la comunidad de The Action Lab, llevamos:
- THE CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY, the largest national organization of member-based community organizations in the US, working directly with 53 affiliates and partners in 131 cities across 34 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC.
- COMMUNITY CHANGE, a national organization founded in 1968 that builds power from the ground up guided by the belief that effective and enduring social movements must be led by those most impacted by injustice themselves.
- CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK / PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS (CUNY/PSC), the union that represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY Research Foundation.
- NEXTGEN AMERICA, which harnesses the power of young voters to reshape the political outcome of our country — not for an election cycle but for a generation.
- THE URBAN DEMOCRACY LAB, a meeting space for movement activists, practitioners, established and emerging scholars to dialogue, learn and and imagine together, housed at the NYU Gallatin School.
- VAMOS POR PUERTO RICO, a group working towards Puerto Rico’s decolonization via food sovereignty, education, community organizing and leadership development.
- LA ESCUELA DE LIDERAZGO POLITICO Y COMUNITARIO, a group building the leadership pipeline of black Puerto Rican youth in the southeast of the island into politics and policy making positions in Puerto Rico
- LA CLARA, which promotes youth participation in Local Puerto Rican elections, primarily via social and earned media
- AWOOD CENTER, which builds East African worker power and focused on improving standards for Amazon’s mostly east African workers in Minneapolis, MN.
- CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LA LUCHA, which organizes low-wage workers in Minnesota with education and empowerment to fight for a voice in their workplaces and in their communities.
- INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA (IX), base-building nonprofit working with low-income renters working to transform the Minneapolis housing system.
- SEIU LOCAL 26,a union of predominantly Black and Brown low-wage workers.
- UNIDOS MN, an immigrant-led, multigenerational, Latinx based community organization that builds power for social, racial and economic justice.
- NEW JUSTICE PROJECT, an African American worker center, a black-led organizing hub focused on building power for and with low income and no income Black Minnesotans by organizing in the policy areas of jobs, housing and supporting the ongoing work of reimagining community safety.
- ISAIAH, a multi-racial, state-wide, nonpartisan coalition of faith communities, Black barbershops, childcare centers, and other community based constituencies fighting for racial and economic justice in Minnesota
- BLACK VISIONS COLLECTIVE (BLVC) is a Black-led, Queer, and Trans centering organization whose mission is to organize powerful, connected Black communities and dismantle systems of violence.
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