OUR WORK
PROGRAMS
- Housing As A Human Right was launched to to wage struggle against slumlords and expose the deplorable housing conditions of Mississippi's poor.
- Quality Of Life - An Environmental Justice, is designed to expose widespread enviornmental hazards and force governmental accountability.
- Fighting For A Living Wage. The Center has been involved in the National Living Wage Campaign for several years. We launched a local organizing effort focuing on cities and towns across the Mississippi Delta.
- Terror On The Plant Floor: Hate Crimes In the Workplace. The Center exposes and fights hate crimes in Mississippi workplaces through this initiative. "terror On The Plant Floor" was established to provide rights-based training and legal representation for workers in racially hostile environments.
- Dying To Make A Living is a workplace environmental justice campaign that educates workers and their families about the right to a safe, clean environment both on the plant for and at home. Our motto: "No one should have to die to make a living."
- The Fannie Lou Hamer Internship Program, nationally recognized, is named in honor of civil rights activist and leader Fammie Lou Hamer who stood up against opporession and brutality across the country, challenging America to end racism and discrimination. We work with law, university and high school studnets to develop youth leadership opportunities. Each term (winter, spring and summer), the program selects students interested in civil rights and human rights to devote their time to working on projects ranging from worker mistreatment and fair housing, to racial justice.
- The Fannie Lou Hamer Roundtable, organized by the Center, was born out of a profound need to bring black women together in the Mississippi Delta and other parts of the state, country and world, to dialogue, share experiences and find solutions. Solutions are desperately needed to fight racism, sexism, poverty and other injustices. Roundtable participants meet on a quarterly basis in different towns in the Mississippi Delta. The Roundtable seeks to continue the legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer - to give voice to the struggles waged by poor black women who are often invisible to the rest of the country.
- Southern Relief Fund and The Witness Delegation were established immediately after Katrina to provide immediate and long term assistance to Internally Displaced Persons.
- "Workers rights are human rights! Organize to stay alive!" is the theme of the Center's Organizing/ Training Group. This is a collaborative effort encouraging worker particpation at all levels.
- Knowledge Is Power was launched to implement a statewide "Know Your Rights" campaign aimed at providing information, organizing support and advocacy for low-wage workers in The Mississippi Delta and other parts of the state.