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SWOP addresses issues strategically through campaigns. Use the following link to find out how we choose campaigns and the principles we apply. Use the links below to take a tour of SWOP's work.
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| Intel: what are we breathing In the 90s, Intel received the largest corporate welfare package in the country's history. Since then, SWOP has struggled to hold intel accountable to our environment and economy. | Youth SWOP is committed to providing leadership development to young people with opportunities and access to resources we need to think for ourselves and analyze our surroundings, to have a voice in decisions that affect our lives, and to build power in our communities. |
| Pajarito Mesa Pajarito Mesa overlooks Albuquerque's South Valley and is home to over 250 families who struggle for basic services such as water, electricity, roads, emergency services, and school bus transportation... |
Community Organizing & Economic Justice Rethinking Economic Development: Democracy and the need for Participatory Budgeting. Our members are community residents just like yourself who have organized... |
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Bucket Brigade - a community air monitoring system. Coralles residents who live near the Intel plant in Rio Rancho, NM have begun to use the buckets to monitor Intel's air emissions. |
Environmental Justice Working class people of color have paid the historical price of disproportionate and adverse affects of toxic chemicals in and around the communities where we live, work and play. The Environmental Justice Movement is the response by working class people all over the world... |
| Philips Corporate Welfare August 2000, Philips Semiconductor was granted the largest Industrial Revenue Bond (IRB) in the history of the City of Albuquerque. The $400 million IRB translated into a total of over $70 million in tax breaks for the company over 11 years. The IRB came on the heels of a similar proposal in 1995 that resulted in 500 layoffs. Philips has announced layoffs of 250 workers in August of 2001. | Property Taxes For the past few years, SWOP has been conducting a community education campaign to discuss the relationship between higher property taxes and corporate welfare. "It's a race to the bottom for communities competing to lure these corporate giants," says Jeanne Gauna of SWOP. "What we've witnessed is a shift of the property tax burden from industry to residents. We're left with empty buildings and no revenue for city so the community foots the bill." |
| Free Trade Area of the Americas On the heels of the NAFTA debacle, President Bush is planning to expand the treaty across the Americas (except for Cuba). "Free Trade?" says Michael Guerrero of SWOP. "There's nothing free about it. Our communities pay for free trade." | Irbie Awards ...an event dedicated to exposing the injustices of the corporate welfare system in New Mexico. In the lead for the 2002 Irbie is Philips Royal Electronics, Inc. |
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