HOSTED “Reality Tours” since 2000, analyzing Rochester’s poverty from a perspective most people haven’t considered. Almost 3000 people have taken these tours. Register for the next Reality Tour here.
ORGANIZED highly attended community wide conferences on poverty such as: Beyond Band-Aids: Advocating for change; Poverty and violence: Assault on human rights; “Building alliances: A vision for ending poverty.” SWAA was the lead organizer of a truth commission in collaboration with the Rochester Poor People’s Campaign and organized a community dialogue on Solitary Confinement.
SPONSORED workshops by nationally known educators and activists such as: Frances Fox Piven; Ethel Long Scott; Willie Baptist, Elijah Anderson; Cheri Honkala; Diane Dujon; Ann Withorn, Tim Wise and others.
SPONSORED community Human Rights Dialogues on such issues as: immigration rights, housing foreclosures and homelessness, Radical Practices and Human Rights and making Rochester a Human Rights City.
COLLABORATED with grass roots organizations, students, and other community activists and allies to document Economic Human Rights Violations and sponsored Truth Commissions on these violations. Worked in solidarity with tenants’ rights and homeless union activists, the creation of a police accountability board.
WORKED as allies with local and national poor people’s organizations to organize marches, speak-outs, and voter registration campaigns.
ATTENDED numerous conferences in New York and surrounding areas, most recently involving Michigan Water Rights programs.