Steve Williams

1995

Steve Williams

People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)

http://www.unite-to-fight.org

San Francisco, California, United States

Civil and Human Rights

The Bold Idea:

POWER is an organization made up of and led by no- and low-wage workers fighting for real change. We have united to fight against the people who defend the economic and social systems that are keeping us down. We will not sit silently while others profit from our poverty. As an organization of largely women and people of color, POWER connects its struggle with the struggle of other working people around the world who make up the backbone of the global economy. In order to build a movement that can change the world, no- and low-wage workers are creating organizations like POWER so that we can rid the world of poverty and oppression — once and for all.

Biography:

Steve Williams is a co-founder and the Executive Director of POWER. Prior to founding POWER, Steve was the welfare rights organizer of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. He graduated from Standard University in 1992.