Diana Correa
Union Square Awards
Last Friday evening I had the honor and pleasure of representing North Star Fund at the Union Square Awards. The Union Square Awards are named for the plaza-like park on 14th Street which played a unique role in New York's...
Must Read: Democracy Off ICE
I highly recommend Aarti Shahani's article Democracy Off ICE on Organizing Upgrade. Organizing Upgrade is a new online forum for grassroots groups to think critically about strategy and building a powerful movement for justice. Aarti is on North Star Fund's...
Movement for Justice Victory
Congratulations to Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio for their victory against Dawney Day Corporation. You can read the full account here in a posting to RaceWire by Letitia Miranda. Movimiento has been a grantee of North Star Fund since 2005....
Attention for Domestic Workers Movement
The domestic workers movement is moving ahead, attracting both widespread support and press attention. If you want to understand both the history as well as the current state of the movement, Lizzy Ratner's new article in The Nation magazine...
Judge Sotomayor and Community Leadership
Over the last week, President Obama's choice for the Supreme Court of the United States--Judge Sonia Sotomayor--has dominated the news. Predictably, we have heard from the usual array of legal scholars, political pundits and legislators representing views across the political...
