Front porches. Kitchen tables. Organizing spaces.
Creating multiracial, rural coalitions to win the things working people need.
We live here.
We are community-led and community-focused. We are organizing in small towns and rural places on issues that impact poor and working class people. Because we live here, we know what our communities need. We intentionally organize multiracial groups across race because we recognize the dog-whistles being used to divide us.
We fight here.
We build in communities through conversations with local residents to find out what matters most to them… and then we organize around those issues. We support local residents in small towns and country places to take leadership in addressing their community concerns. Current emergent issue areas include:
Rural Housing
Due to corporate landlords, vacation rentals, and a lack of local investment, poor and working-class families in rural communities are struggling to find safe and affordable housing for our families. We are organizing to hold our local government accountable to our needs by advocating for policy and support for renters and low income homeowners alike.
Economics
Because of policies that favor big corporations and the wealthy few, poor and working-class North Carolinians struggle to make ends meet. We are organizing to hold both our local government and big business accountable for providing living wages and real economic opportunity so we all can thrive.
Health Justice
Rural North Carolinians struggle to get the healthcare they need due to the divestment in local healthcare systems and consolidation of services, as well as political attacks on our ability to make decisions about our own bodies. We are organizing to make sure that everyone, regardless of race or zip code, has access to the care they need.
Public Schools
Most of us rely on our great local public schools to provide an education and safe learning environment for our children. We are organizing to support the full funding of public education and for an honest and accurate curriculum that serves all our children.
Environment
Everyone deserves a healthy, clean environment in which to raise our families. Greedy corporations and insufficient regulation have polluted our local environments, leaving a mess for local communities to clean up. We are organizing with our neighbors to hold polluters accountable and help poor and working-people access the resource they need to deal with climate change.
Our future is here.
We are confronting racism, homophobia, and misogyny head on because we know that we need to work together, not apart. We invest in rural people and rural communities to be change makers in our hometowns statewide from mountains to coast.
It’s a tall order, but we are up to the challenge because this is our home.
Find local folks organizing near you:
“The reason why I am involved is because I believe
that if we can figure out solutions from day to day
about how we can make this world work better for everyone. If we can figure out solutions to health care, to opioids, to giving people places to live, to making sure there are jobs, then we could make sure that no one is poor. “
- Sam Malone, Waynesville
“No future. I know a whole generation of young
people probably never worked a day in their life.
I just couldn’t fathom that when I was younger,
but I see why it happens…the economic and political system that we live under has such a surplus of people they can choose from, and they can wipe out a whole generation of folks. People just get into a survival mode, trying to make it from one day to the next.”
- Brenda, Burlington