National SWAA
@NationalSwaa
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Nat'l organization promoting principles of radical social work, social service, and policy. Go to https://t.co/0N1VF5nqLQ. Disengaged w/ X.
Joined May 2019
We can’t be silent. Until Elon Musk is OUT, the Social Welfare Action Alliance has disengaged from this platform. Please connect with us through our website, Facebook, or Instagram. Our Lin.ktree lists all these sites:
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Pushing Back When Under Assault & (Still) Keeping Your Day Job ! #RadChats Tue Apr 2 at 8PM ET - https://t.co/NsWj4oQLwD <How we are pushing back against restrictive, regressive, and oppressive laws? How do we engage in collective care, supporting one another? Register today!
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Check out our recent post with a glossary of futures thinking and foresight terms! We'll explore them further in the Shaping Social Work Futures Virtual Forum. Link in bio to register. #SWFuturesForum2024 #SWFuturesLab #SWFutures #AnticipatorySW #thefutureiscoming
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One example of "the power of radical imagination in building transformative solidarity is the movement for disability justice. . .[Success in challenging] the status quo required a multitude of people playing a wide range of roles." Diversify to grow meaningful organization. 3/3
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By the 1990s activism shifted "to a shallow, professional and often philanthropically funded model of “advocacy”, one that elevates self-appointed leaders and elite experts to speak on behalf of constituencies to whom they are not directly accountable." #RadicalSocialWork 2/3
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Organising is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength https://t.co/RK3dvL6iT3
#DoNotAgonize #Organize 1/3
theguardian.com
The long read: Organising is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength
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We're proud to have @swascorg as an issue-based chapter and ally of @NationalSWAA! #EndSolitaryConfinement
Our co-director @BuserMary explains the horrors of solitary confinement and the role of mental health care professionals. #endsolitaryconfinement
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We're gearing up for #TransDayOfVisibility! Please take the @SCSG_SSSW pledge to join us on March 31. https://t.co/d90m7FqxTQ We will send you or your org a resource kit. #SocialWorkers4TransJustice
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Trans Day of Visibility is coming up and we want to flood the internet with affirming messages for our trans loved ones! Let us know we can count on you to help take action on Sunday, March 31,...
March 31st is Trans Day of Visibility! Join us in flooding the internet with affirming messages and take the pledge to show your support, which is linked in our bio. #socialworkers4transjustice
#transjusticetuesday
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Our Bodies, Our Choice
thenation.com
Abortion is health care, and abortion rights must be guaranteed without discrimination.
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#IWD Photos from around the world https://t.co/LUus2DHXdr Let's hope that "The Future Is Female." Women couldn't do worse than the current dominant gender. Probably!
theguardian.com
A roundup of rallies to celebrate women’s social, cultural and political achievements and protests against gender-based violence and inequality
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Corporate profits accounted for more than half — 53% — of inflation from April to September last year, according to excellent research from @Groundwork. It's not inflation, we're just getting ripped off. We need to crack down on corporate greed. #SOTU2024
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"Wall Street didn't build America, the middle class did. And unions built the middle class." - @POTUS #StateOfTheUnion
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Part of what brought us out of that difficulty of the early pandemic days was the expansion of human needs programs like the Child Tax Credit — which cut child poverty nearly in half(!). We still need these programs. Bring back the expanded #ChildTaxCredit. #SOTU2024
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#RadicalSocialWork Manifesto (link-bio) "calls for anti-capitalist/ anti-racist/anti-oppressive practice that supports collective action/ collective care/ and economic human rights.[It] implores us to do what we say we do – to be liberatory/emancipatory/building a new world"
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Let's 'Empower Social Workers' and educators to utilize technology to inspire action and lead change! #SWtech #SocialWorkMonth #SWmonth2024 @nasw @naswca @GCSocialWork #MSW #NASW ✌️ @uscsocialwork
Join us March 21st for part 3 of Harness Tech for Social Good series as @uscsocialwork's @SD_SocialWorker & @FordhamGSS's @brooklyn11210 discuss intersection of AI & social work practice. Register & watch past sessions: https://t.co/zmFGuYpLe1
#SWTech #socialwork #Up4theChallenge
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“We are not to be saved by the captain, but by the crew.” -Federick Douglass We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For
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"My message for the situation when I am killed is very simple, not give up" #AlexeiNavalny #PutinKilledNavalny #MoscowMikeJohnson #Russia
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How Arizona’s crisis response network became a model for mental health hotline @afspnational @BartAndrews @NAMIARIZONA @988Lifeline @vibrantforall @1of2vics @LoriLevin
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Since the launch of 988, the three-digit dialing code for the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, millions have made contact with counselors. But the support and services available after someone...
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Find out why "all politics are local"! Free - Register for the next @NationalSWAA #RadChat Feb. 29th to receive the link https://t.co/KSSvcMzsBe
#RadicalSocialWork #SocialWorkIsPolitical
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