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The co-founder of the Miami Worker's Center traces the dangerous route our infrastructure has taken from public to private benefit, and the effort to build a nationwide movement to reverse this trend in support of democracy and human rights.
Gihan Perera is co-founder and Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center, a dynamic organization working to develop on-the-ground power in South Florida. Perera is also one of the co-founders of the Right to the City—a national alliance of over 50 grassroots organizations, legal service providers, academics and policy groups seeking alternatives to gentrification and urban displacement of poor and working class communities of color. He is a nationally recognized progressive movement leader, organizer, and strategist. He is a frequent public speaker and has been published in both local and national media outlets, addressing everything from the politics of natural disasters to the impacts of free trade on low-income communities of color within the U.S. Perera worked in the labor movement as a lead organizer throughout the South with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union and as the recruitment director for the AFL-CIO's Organizing Institute.
What is your momentum? Pyramids: The wonder of how so many generations of people sustain a vision, aspiration, and a practice for something so much bigger than themselves.
