Ongoing: A community care peer support space for disabled and chronically ill people.

A fun, safe peer space for continued learning... Get the latest updates on Zoom, practice using technical tools, and develop skills of accessible design and radical hospitality.

This 2-part series is for people that are interested in applying a disability justice framework to your current movement work.

A 2-hour hands-on workshop designed for facilitators to improve their facilitation of online meetings and gatherings with impactful, generative, and energizing tools. Participants will gain fundamental design and facilitation skills using principles of popular education - so you can lead online community meetings that deepen connections and move your work forward.

A hands-on Zoom tech and online accessibility training for community organizers. This 2.5-hour training equips staff and volunteers with technical support skills, practice time, and a framework of radical hospitality so they can support online facilitators and event attendees.

We invite Black disabled movement workers into strategic conversations and study to sharpen our organizing approaches amongst Black radical disabled people and to share tools, skills, and resources that continue to support black disabled people.

This circle will be focused on stories about climate disasters in recent history and how disabled people have been impacted, what the common needs are, and how we can better prepare ourselves to respond during climate disasters. We will also announce PeoplesHub’s temporary Survival Fund and provide more information on who is eligible to apply and how.

Join us to gain a deeper understanding of one of the themes of Solidarity Economy Principles and Practices: Shared Resources and Shared Vision. Participants will learn examples of principles and practices that a variety of groups have used to develop collective vision, power and abundance. Whether you’re in a cooperative, a nonprofit, a community garden, or some other kind of organization, the community-sourced wisdom will support your journey. Únete a nosotros para profundizar en uno de los temas de los Principios y Prácticas de la Economía Solidaria: Recursos compartidos y visión compartida. Los participantes aprenderán ejemplos de principios y prácticas que diversos grupos han utilizado para desarrollar una visión colectiva, poder y abundancia. Tanto si perteneces a una cooperativa, a una organización sin ánimo de lucro, a un huerto comunitario o a cualquier otro tipo de organización, la sabiduría de la comunidad apoyará tu viaje.

Apply to our Solidarity Economy Regional Organizing Training Cohort, launching 2025!

Come learn about a new Solidarity Economy Regional Organizing Training Cohort we're launching in 2025. This information session will provide an overview of the program to interested groups.

Black August is a time to commemorate the lives of Black freedom fighters through study and practice. In this circle we’ll reflect on the impo rtance of organizing across prison walls, alongside several guests working in anti-prison movements, including our Arts and Social Justice Fellow Yem Case who is an organizer and writer incarcerated in Pennsylvania.

This is a practice space to collaborate with other people that are resisting COVID denialism and to strengthen + build deeper connections outside of social media. We’ll collectively share updates about our work and strategies, troubleshoot common issues we face, and work on collective action planning.

Solidarity economy movements are people-powered forces to protect what matters most. They draw on tools and traditions within many lineages, making them accessible to any community, anywhere. Join us to explore what a solidarity economy movement is, how it works, and ways we can stay oriented to movement-building even as we navigate against the tides of capitalism and oppression.Los movimientos de economía solidaria son fuerzas empoderadas por la gente para proteger lo que más importa. Estos se basan en herramientas y tradiciones de muchos linajes, haciéndolos accesibles a cualquier comunidad, en cualquier lugar. Únase a nosotres para explorar que es un movimiento de economía solidaria, como funciona y las maneras en que podemos mantenernos orientados al desarrollo de movimiento aun cuando navegamos en contra de las marejadas del capitalismo y la opresión.

Meet and celebrate our Artist Fellows Kal-El Carey and Sharif Zakout, who will share their art and organizing work as a part of our 2023 Arts and Social Justice Fellowship Cohort.

We believe Fannie Lou Hamer: “Nobody is free until everybody is free.” Our commitment to building a Solidarity Economy is about the liberation of all from systems of domination. Join a gentle space to practice applying Solidarity Economy principles and practices that directly support a liberation culture.Note: Introduction to Solidarity Economy Movements is a prerequisite for this workshop.‍Le creemos a Fannie Lou Hamer: “Nadie es libre hasta que todos seamos libres”. Nuestro compromiso de crear una Economía solidaria es para la liberación de todes de todos los sistemas de dominación. Únase a este agradable espacio para practicar cómo aplicar Principios y prácticas de Economía Solidaria que apoyan directamente una Cultura de Liberación.Nota: Introducción a movimientos de solidaridad económica es un pre-requisito para este taller. ‍

We will lead a cohort of disabled people who are currently engaged in social justice work through a workshop series designed to develop knowledge and skills (peer support, self-advocacy, practicing access, and more) to navigate internalized ableism. This is not apolitical or completely individual. Participants will work with each other to find ways we can make the work of undoing internalized ableism a collective process and use what is learned in movement work beyond the cohort.

“What does it mean for you to share knowledge? Land? Food? Care? Production tools?” Organizers in Jackson (Mississippi), Detroit (Michigan), and Birmingham (Alabama) answer these critical questions in the book chapter “From Self Determination to Community Determination: Black-lead Commons in the United States” by Elandria Williams and Mabrouka M’Barek. Join us for a 2-part session to discuss how we can recover and build the Black Commons to provide ways for community determination. We will discuss the chapter together and hear from guests including Dr Jessica Gordon-Nembhard.

Flying Kites is an introductory workshop to the legacy of Black August and a space for Black people who are interested in learning about political prisoners. We will write letters to current political prisoners and explore ways to support the ongoing movement to free them all.

Join PeoplesHub, Art.Coop, and Maddy Clifford for an interactive listening session of the Remember the Future Podcast: Great Storytellers Break Spells, we will listen to the episode that features Maddy Clifford, aka MADLines. Afterwards, Marian Lopez and Joe Tolbert will facilitate discussion on strategy– how to fight the very systems that stop artists from being creative and how to radicalize one’s creative process.

Solidarity economy movements are people-powered forces to protect what matters most, and draw on tools and traditions within many lineages, making them accessible to any community, anywhere. Join us to explore what a solidarity economy movement is, how it works, and ways we can stay oriented to movement-building even as we navigate against the tides of capitalism and oppression.

Applying a framework of disability justice is critical in uniting against the far right and protecting each other throughout the pandemic. This is for Black people that are interested in incorporating an anti-ableist approach to their movement work and developing values to support the increase of access.

PeoplesHub Circle connecting movement activists from disability & worker/ labor justice communities, and those already organizing at the intersections.

We believe Fannie Lou Hamer: “Nobody is free until everybody is free.” Our commitment to building a Solidarity Economy is about the liberation of all from systems of domination. Join a gentle space to practice applying Solidarity Economy principles and practices that directly support a liberation culture.

In 2023 alone, the Far Right has plotted to attack power grids, has protested against gender affirming care and critical race theory, has disseminated propaganda and acts of violence, has consolidated political power in numerous states, has received millions in funding, and has grown their numbers. Join PeoplesHub for a circle where we’ll learn about what has led to the rise of the Far Right, how they are currently influencing and organizing, and what we can do in our communities and movements to unite together and combat them.

Solidarity economy movements are people-powered forces to protect what matters most, and draw on tools and traditions within many lineages, making them accessible to any community, anywhere. Join us to explore what a solidarity economy movement is, how it works, and ways we can stay oriented to movement-building even as we navigate against the tides of capitalism and oppression.

Combating ableism and conflict avoidance with Interdependence and Sacred Responsibility frameworks (Mbongi, Ubuntu, Egbé)

Combating ableism and conflict avoidance with Interdependence and Sacred Responsibility frameworks (Mbongi, Ubuntu, Egbé)

A two-part workshop that covers the basics of cultural organizing, and it includes topics such as: What is cultural organizing?, How can art and culture be used in service of collective liberation, values of cultural organizing campaigns, and drafting the cultural organizing campaign?.

An intro to PeoplesHub curriculum designed to equip movement groups with the skills, tools and resources that our movement folks need to thrive and actualize liberation, justice and grow a beloved community.

The exclusion and repression of sex workers is not a feminist position; it's a threat to democracy and justice for everyone. Join sex worker activists in conversation on how leftist feminists can fight the sneaky forms of fascism that today pose as “feminism”.

Hate and exclusion of sex workers and trans people is not a feminist position; it's a threat to democracy and justice for everyone. Join sex worker and trans activists thinkers in conversation on how leftist feminists are fighting the sneaky forms of fascism that today pose as “feminism”.

A popular education clinic where organizers will develop a foundational understanding of Marx’s theory and critique of capitalism, explore expansion and applications of Marxism by movements and revolutionaries, and reflect on how to apply Marxism to liberatory movement work today.

Come celebrate our Artist Fellows Taria Person and Miguel Lopez as they close their time with us as our Fall Cohort of our Arts and Social Justice Fellowship.

A People’s WPA: Reimagining Labor and Building Cultural Power is a 3-part training series from the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture for artists, activists, and cultural organizers who are interested in advocating for a public service artists job program at the local, regional, and national scale. We will cover the basics of cultural organizing, hear from inspiring artists, and host a hands-on feedback session for cultural organizers working in their respective cities.

Join us for the next installment of Art at PeoplesHub as we present Carpetbag Theatre, Inc.’s Covid Stories. A Zoom production created during the first 16 months of COVID-19 through collected community stories. This play illustrates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on Black people in Knoxville, TN. This production will be followed by a discussion on Blackness and disability justice, as well as things we can do to create communities and cultures of care as the pandemic continues.

A two-part workshop that covers the basics of cultural organizing, and it includes topics such as: What is cultural organizing?, How can art and culture be used in service of collective liberation, values of cultural organizing campaigns, and drafting the cultural organizing campaign?.

Solidarity economy tools like co-ops and community land trusts are owned and governed by their members. How can disabled communities, and our allies, use these tools for our mutual self-help?

This workshop is for anyone involved in grassroots organizing, cultural work, or other forms of leadership for social change who want support to write from those experiences, whether or not you already identify as a “writer.”

This Circle is a conversation that focuses on using indigenous spiritual practices to inform our movement strategies.

This series will be grounded in solidarity with the National Prison Strike demands and honoring the legacy of George Jackson, the Attica Rebellion, and abolitionist resistance efforts across the country. Two years after we watched police station burn, how do we continue to honor our ancestors and sharpen our revolutionary praxis while continuing to be in solidarity with those most vulnerable?

Join us for a funder briefing! We will reflect and share on what we've learned at the intersections of faith/spirituality, grief, mental and emotional health, disability justice and access.

Join us for an exclusive new report launch from Chicago's AAAN. If you and your community are impacted by surveillance, this panel will offer exclusive research, lessons and tools to resist it!

This two-part workshop series is for organizations and groups in the Pittsburgh region that are looking to apply a disability justice framework and practices to their work.

Come celebrate our Artist Fellows Elena House Hay and Saleem Hue Penny as they close their time with us as our Spring Cohort of our Arts and Social Justice Fellowship.

A series for creatives to practice solidarity economy principles, get inspired by other aligned artists, participate in creative self-reflection, and weave networks of mutual support.

Develop an expansive understanding of disability and ableism that’s rooted in historical context, and determine the differences between accessibility and access.

Join us as we welcome in the new year and focus on why resilience and restoration are necessary for thriving and healthy movements.

Join in a conversation about Black territories of freedom and engage with one another about strategies for creating spaces of freedom throughout the African diaspora.

Join in a conversation about Black territories of freedom and engage with one another about strategies for creating spaces of freedom throughout the African diaspora.

Develop an expansive understanding of disability and ableism that’s rooted in historical context, and determine the differences between accessibility and access.

Join us for an interactive, intergenerational conversation on the political importance of Black publishing and bookstores, and the cultural strategies of resistance that we can bring forward to reclaim and create Black space.

Join disabled organizers and artists to explore stories about vaccines, medications, institutions, prisons, and the impact of “returning to normal” on our daily lives.

A writing workshop for organizers, activists and movement-builders who want support to write about their experiences.

Reflect, remember and reinvigorate your commitment to an expansive imagination in honor of Elandria’s life and work.