Works In Progress


topic : Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights

POWER boosts funds, hosts Mother’s Day picnic

May 2008

Photo: Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights

by Monica Peabody

It’s been one year since the members and staff of WROC, Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition, separated from the board to continue WROC’s important work under a new name. If you missed that article, see June 2007 Works in Progress (WIP) at their website, http://www.olywip.org/. Although the split was painful at the time, members and staff spent the year intentionally developing an organization through a consensus, member-led process, all the while continuing the important work of guiding people to expect and demand their welfare rights, improving people’s understanding of . . .

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