The recently launched VOCAL-US promises to build a national movement, and at the forefront is director of organizing Jawanza James Williams.
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“I’m queer. In a more reductive way back then, you would say I was gay—and I had a lot of homophobic experiences throughout my life, like a lot of queer kids do,” Williams said. “That automatically made me a little bit more sensitive.
At age 23, Williams needed a break from mounting financial and social concerns. He took a bus to New York City to visit a friend and ended up finding a place to live, but his housing arrangement fell through after he began receiving health care from the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program , which requires
“I signed our clipboard where we collect name, phone number, and address, and they started calling me,” Williams said. “And eventually, I joined the organization. I attended a membership meeting, and just so many things that I naturally to realize were presented to me very clearly in this organizing context. And once I got a taste of collective power building love, care, compassion, politics, and political education, I just thrived in it.”sealed the deal as an organizer for Williams.
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