United Workers
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Membership led human rights organization of the poor and working class people uniting across Maryland to demand our human right to freedom from poverty.
Earlier today, Annette Blake, a leader from United Workers in Maryland and the NVMA attended the DAG 1000 White Coats on the Hill action during Genocide Prevention Month to speak out against the war on the poor both here and abroad.
She shared her healthcare story, “I became homeless trying to take care of my mother. She had three types of cancer.” Her mom couldn’t get Medicaid because her pension was $1 over the limit. SHAME!
MLK Jr said, “The bombs we drop overseas explode at home.” The same system denying care here is funding violence across the world.
The fight for our basic rights unites survival struggles of the poor and dispossessed in the US with the survival struggles of those threatened by war, genocide, and sanctions abroad.
04/05/2026
Today’s highlights Hope Garden’s Annual Spring Revival that took place yesterday 🌱✊🏽
Yesterday, members from Cumberland and Westminster traveled to Baltimore to show statewide solidarity, lending their hands and hearts as we prepare for the growing season. We were also grateful to have folks from Housing Our Neighbors and come through in support, reminding us what it looks like when we show up for one another.
The Hope Garden is one of United Workers’ oldest Projects of Survival, growing fresh food, creating a peaceful space to gather, and standing as a visible act of protest against the hypocrisy of a system that produces extreme need in the midst of extreme abundance.
As Nadiyah, a United Workers member and Hope Garden lead, said so powerfully:
“This is what unity of the poor looks like!… we must continue to unite our class by organizing, organizing, organizing!”
As we move through the seasons of Easter and Passover, we are reminded that our struggles and our survival are not new. These traditions teach us that even in the face of oppression, people come together to care for one another, to tell our stories, and to fight for liberation.
Our Projects of Survival carry that same spirit forward today. Inspired by the Black Panther Party, they meet immediate needs, but they also challenge the false narrative of scarcity Through collective care and storytelling, we are making the invisible visible, breaking isolation, and building the power needed to transform a system that denies us of our basic human needs.
This is more than survival. This is resistance. This is resurrection. This is revolution in motion
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2239 Kirk Avenue
Baltimore, MD
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