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History
After years of operating out of cramped donated spaces, the Workers Defense Project and Third Coast Activist Resource Center searched for a place we could call home. We found it at 5604 Manor in East Austin, where we have a 4,000 square-foot building with meeting space for 150, office space, a children’s room, break room, kitchen, and a two-acre outdoor space with room for community gardens, playground, and soccer field.
In late 2009, generous individual donors allowed us to make a down-payment on the building. The energetic efforts of volunteers — including many of the Workers Defense Project’s construction worker members — allowed us to renovate the space on a slim budget. Since formally opening in May 2010, thousands of Austinites have used 5604 Manor for public events, organizing meetings, ESL classes, youth programming, and more.
Take a Peak
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- Casa Nueva: Celebrating more than 25 years as a worker-owned restaurant
TCWC frequently receives emails/calls about worker-owned restaurants and other food-related cooperatives. So we decided to share an article from the most recent issue of “Owners at Work,” the semi-annual newsletter of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC), in which Karen Thomas offers an informative case study of one of the longest standing worker-owned restaurants in [...]
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- Report Back: Press Conference Follows Another Near-Tragedy
On June 9, WDP proudly announced the Premier Community Builder partnership Agreement with Maxum Development at the 21Rio apartment complex,...
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- What is a worker-owned business?
In the face of our broken economy, more people are recognizing the need to go beyond business as usual and begin building a new economy “in the shell of the old”. Across the country and around the world, people are building grassroots economies based on democracy, sustainability and cooperation. One of the pillars of this [...]
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- WDP Wage Theft Bill Signed by the Governor!
Stop Wage Theft! WDP’s Wage Theft Bill was signed by Governor Rick Perry and is now law! This bill makes...
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