ABOUT US: RESOURCE CENTER OF THE AMERICAS
INTRODUCTION–PROGRAMS–MISSION–HISTORY–FINANCES
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The Resource Center of the Americas, the Minneapolis-based nonprofit publisher of AMERICAS.ORG, is devoted to the notion that every person in this world is entitled to the same fundamental human rights. Our starting point for promoting these rights is learning and teaching about the peoples and countries of the Americas—their history, culture and politics. We focus especially on the global economy, a system in which a minority flourishes while millions of people lack adequate food, shelter and employment.

Every Resource Center program embodies the principle that education goes hand-in-hand with action. At our Saturday morning “coffeehours,” a letter-writing table enables participants to contact government and corporate officials about a hot issue. At AMERICAS.ORG, feature articles appear with “action ideas.” At our workshops, we ask participants not just to listen and learn, but to develop individual action plans. And we run three organizing projects, including a new Latino immigrant workers program called the Centro de Derechos Laborales.

The Resource Center has accomplished a great deal since a handful of activists formed the organization in 1983 to fight U.S. military intervention in Central America. Since then, the Resource Center has grown into a dynamic nonprofit organization with more than two dozen staff members, hundreds of volunteers and 1,500 members, and we have broadened our focus to the entire hemisphere, including the human rights of Latino immigrants in the United States..

In 1999, we moved into our own building in a diverse neighborhood of south Minneapolis. This newly renovated facility houses our lending library, public meeting rooms, café and bookstore. It’s a bustling community hub that helps propel the rest of our work—publications, a youth leadership project, classes, cultural events, activist campaigns and much more.

Resource Center programs challenge us to consider the impact of our everyday actions. They give us multicultural insights and connect us with others in the community. They show us the links between local and global issues. Most important, they empower us to work collectively to change government and corporate policies, to promote human rights throughout Latin America and here at home. We look forward to working with you.

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