Amandla Worker Education Center is in Riverhead (Long Island), between the north and south forks of eastern Long Island. Amandla is from IsiZulu and means “power,” used as a rallying cry against Apartheid. Amandla is home to an array of programs, including CASA (Center of Alliance, Solidarity, and Accompaniment), Mujeres de Esperanza/Women of Hope, VOLIY (Voices of Long Island Youth), and the Long Island Farmworker Cooperative. RMM is honored to be in partnership and share the campus with the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island and its mission, Centro Franciscano, as well as with Locals 888 (UFCW) and 338(RWDSU), which are a part of Trabajadores Agricolas Unidos (TAU).
Team members
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Coordinator of the College Prep Program & Western NY Associate Coordinator
Programs
RMM is standing with women in eastern Long Island as they face many challenges and live into their dreams.
RMM is partnering with farmworkers as they build their own growing cooperative.
RMM brings together faith leaders, both ordained and lay people, to explore the removal of walls that divide us as we work toward social transformation. The Cohorts, both in person and virtual, depend upon the participants sharing their experiences with one another.
RMM is partnering with Trabajadores Agricolas Unidos (TAU), an effort sponsored by UFCW and RWDSU to implement the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act.
Each year, we welcome artists in residence, as we are intent on incorporating the arts into all of our programs and our centers.
RMM is honored to host the annual Rural Women’s Assembly, which welcomes more than 200 rural women and their allies from across New York.
RMM offers regular opportunities for ally groups to visit our Centers, meet with our people and explore our programs.
RMM works hard to support the dreams and opportunities of the members of the Youth Empowerment Program through two scholarship programs.
Voices of Long Island Youth (VOLIY) is RMM’s newest high school Youth Empowerment group. Utilizing podcasts as their medium, VOLIY works to bring about change in our society.
For more than 30 years, RMM has welcomed children, ages 8-17, from across rural New York to a one-week overnight camp. Along with our Summer Day Programs, young leaders get to meet RMM, and we get to meet them.
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Through the Rural Academy of the People (RAP), RMM offers a variety of adult education programs through our Centers and online that are initiated and designed by rural, grass-roots leaders. A key focus lies in supporting people as they create their own cooperatives.