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The once-great falls of this city were a traditional Wabanaki site for salmon catching.
What is Lewiston?
Portland without ____ is prehistoric!
What is paid sick days in Portland?
answers included beans, bagels, biscuits, and corn beef hash
What's your favorite breakfast food?
He's the longest serving member of our Political Education committee.
Who is Alan?
This member shared a powerful testimony about caring for and connecting with an ailing grandparent through song.
Who is Kat?
Trans is here
what is Biddeford?
Powerful storytelling helped us win this specific expansion of healthcare that studies say could prolong a person's life by 6 years.
What is dental care?
answers included a sense of belonging, values alignment, wanting to add and grow their individual power, and having friends who brought them along.
What drew you to SMWC?
We consider this badass organizer and proliferator of the Transformative Organizing model our unofficial founder.
Who is DrewChristopher Joy (DCJ)?
This member is an anchor on the SMWC Personnel Committee, where she's helped lead interviews, evaluations, and disability justice workshops with our staff.
Who is Rachel Riendeau?
Strikes here led to an owner firing all of his employees before selling the business.
Brunswick
A quiet win in coalition with the AFL-CIO following a 300% surge in calls to SMWC's worker support hotline at the outset of the pandemic.
What is unemployment reform?
answers included digging a big hole, saying something that makes a friend feel better, winning, and kickboxing.
What makes you feel powerful?
The only member to join the board twice, he led an SMWC language justice audit.
Who is Constant Kabuyenge?
Since joining us this member has advocated for laws that would make sexual harassment trainings mandatory in all Portland restaurants.
Who is Rachel Stella?
A rural town where BIPOC members tend to a community garden.
Durham
Blazingly popular, it will make it actually possible for workers to rest and care for themselves and their loved ones.
What is paid family and medical leave?
answers included rolling your own cigarettes to save money, scheduling emails to send at a later time, and taking early morning walks.
What are life hacks?
This champion of the humanities and former board member co-authored the "Enough For All" report that SMWC published as part of our campaign for universal healthcare.
Who is Samaa Abdurraqib?
This member led our only Winter-time 'Radical Nourishment' workshop, where Black and Brown members came together to connect + reflect over their ancestries while building community and fire making skills.
Who is Pacifico Gonzaga?
SMWC's Healthcare is a Human Right campaign once had a small organizing committee in this town, ~35 miles south of Portland.
What is Sanford?
An early campaign and one of our first wins from when we had an inter-faith committee. Our target was the airport!
What is creating prayer space for Muslim taxi drivers at the Portland airport?
answers included lava, water, liquid gold, and ginger ale
What is a liquid you wish you could shoot out of your fingertips?
Perhaps the only truly honorable member of the Labor Committee, this longtime Union organizer was part of the initial founding of SMWC.
Who is Matt Beck?
These two rad members stepped up big to help design (and serve as inaugural moderators for) SMWC's new internal mutual aid system.
Who are Lili Elena / Ren Wittenstein?