Our December 15th Estate Tax Teleconference was a successful event, garnering immediate and continuing media coverage as Congress debates the future of the federal estate tax - see more inside. You may also download a recording of the teleconferencehere.
The Closing the Racial Wealth Gap workshop helps participants critically examine the way in which
race shapes the distribution of resources and privilege in the U.S. We
use several participatory activities and dialogue to analyze the role
of government in supporting (for people of European descent) or
blocking (for people of color) the accumulation of assets. The workshop also
reviews strategies, campaigns, and actions that will help close the
racial wealth divide and promote create greater economic equality in
general.
The Growing Economic Divide workshop will present an overview of the massive income and wealth shift of the last 30 years
using "human graphs," with opportunities to discuss the effects of
gross inequality on our lives and the lives of the people we know and
care about.
This presentation is the first in a series of three workshops on Economic Inequality presented by the
From March 19 – 22, 2009 close to 400 people found their way to University of Massachusetts at Amherst for the first national gathering of the US Solidarity Economy Network (SEN), a group formed out of the Solidarity Economy Caucus meetings of the U.S. Social Forum held in Atlanta in June 2007.UFE was present at the US Social Forum and was represented at the SEN forum by six staff members. April 9, 2009
Come to an immigrant tenant learning session to learn about how
foreclosure is affecting the Immigrant Latino community and how your
organization can get involved in helping tenants & homeowners to
save their homes. Lawyers and dedicated community housing activists
will be guiding you in this learning session.
March 24, 2009
