Bus Route Report Card: 600 Nashville Bus Riders Draw Attention to Racial and Economic Inequity, Highlight Key Transit Priorities

Join us Wednesday, January 9 at 6:00pm! Music City Riders United members will gather outside the downtown bus station to release MCRU’s 20-page Bus Route Report Card study. Now is the time to demand city and state government address racial and economic inequity in Nashville’s public transit! Riders will highlight

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Victory at Target!

Victory at Target! After months of organizing and building public pressure on Target, the department store chain announced that Target broke its contract with Diversified Maintenance Systems LLC in the whole state of Tennessee and will audit the agency’s employment practices nationwide. And Martha and Navor were paid $18,500! – the amount

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Donations Up to $5k Will Be Matched!

On Friday we announced that a donor pledged to contribute $1,000 if others could match $500 of it by midnight on Monday. You took on the challenge and doubled it, donating $1,013 by the deadline! This has inspired another long-time supporter of Workers’ Dignity to match donations up to $5,000 for

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Bus Riders are Pushing Back Against Divestment in Low Income Communities

Since launching our $50,000 end-of-year grassroots fundraiser, Workers’ Dignity members, allies, and other community supporters have responded generously. In two weeks, everyone has pitched in to raise $17,930. We need your help to keep momentum going!   A long time supporter has pledged to donate $1,000 if we can raise an additional $500

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Join the Effort: Our Communities are Organizing to “Bite Back” against HB2315

For the past 6 months, our Nashville Community Defense (NCD) campaign has been knocking on doors across the city talking to workers about HB2315, the “show me your papers” law expected to go into effect in Tennessee on January 1st 2019. With less than a month to go before the

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Need for Safer Crossings in Our Neighborhood is Critical

We can’t sugarcoat the fatal impact the lack of crosswalks, sidewalks, and bus shelters have on low-income communities. Don’t forget Workers’ Dignity is doing a $50,000 multi-racial fundraising campaign until December 31st to better organize our communities. 52 people have pledged and donated $17,000. Join in and help us continue

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Your Donation Counts Twice Today!

Time and time again, we’ve seen major roadblocks to justice overcome through community solidarity, worker organizing, and effective organization. Today, we’re launching a multi-racial fundraising campaign to raise $50,000 by December 31st to support Workers’ Dignity’s campaigns for workplace justice, equitable transit, and base organizing among immigrant workers. Can you

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Join Us to Demand Target Pay Workers and Stop Using Low-Road Agencies!

Join Workers’ Dignity this Sunday, November 11th at 1PM, because Martha and Navor are taking their campaign to the Target! Martha and Navor are asking that the billion dollar corporation pay them for their work cleaning Target department stores through Diversified Maintenance, a cleaning agency they say owes more than

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What Yesterday’s Amendment 1 Victory Reveals

Yesterday’s landslide victory for Amendment 1 tells us a lot about the growing people’s movement in Nashville and it provides us with a wealth of lessons. While the victory, led by Community Oversight Now, took the form of a 60-40 vote in favor of a public referendum, that’s just a

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Join Teams of Canvassers and Help Us WIN a Community Oversight Board!

  Join Workers Dignity this Saturday, November 2 from 12-6pm, for a day of canvassing to get out the vote. We’ll meet up at our Southeast center, 335 Whitsett Rd. We need community oversight of the police department. In the past two years, two unarmed African American men have been

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