“In the midst of growing income inequality and wealth disparity, we need to bring people together to strategize on resolving the interrelated crises in jobs, health care, housing, education, the environment and continuing wars.”
About Us
The Alliance for Social and Economic Justice which administers the center, strongly believes that only by providing a vision for the future will people then be inspired to take action. Collective action can produce change. A better world is possible when we work together. The Center provides spaces for working people to raise consciousness and gain hope in changing the world.
Music Festival
The Social and Economic Justice Music Festival will feature all genres and music styles, as well as include other art forms besides music. Saturday will have three sessions of workshops on a range of topics and Sunday will have three sessions of song swaps and sharing performances. Both days end with an evening concert. It will take place on January 25th and 26th at Mission High School, 3750 – 18th Street, between Dolores and Church Streets. Click here for more info.
Film Festival
The annual film festival showcases works made by independent filmmakers who are affirming labor and other human rights and advocating for social and economic justice. The film festival highlights films that promote a global culture of racial and economic equality and that challenge exploitative and oppressive systems on a local, national and global level.
Submit your entry here.
About CSEJ
The Center for Social and Economic Justice serves as an incubator of grassroots organizing and movement building. Using popular education techniques, the Center provides spaces for working people to gain consciousness and hope in making a better world possible. Popular education is an interactive and participatory process to draw from sharing people’s lived experience a collective analysis and strategies for progressive change. The process is a cycle of reflection and action to inform organizing for social change.
Events
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