People's Power Lab

People's Power Lab has a mission to build the power of Black, Brown, and Muslim working-class community members in our base. We represent many Rohingya, Afghan, Syrian, Somali, Congolese and and other refugees in the Triangle area of North Carolina. In addition, we represent many working class African Americans in the Triangle and Rocky Mount. Our organizing mission includes education justice for the most impacted community members within our base. A significant number of working-class refugees/immigrants and African American community members in our base are denied the basic education resources. Education system in North Carolina and the USA has historically under-served Black, Brown, and working-class community members. A significant number of immigrants and refugees with young children live in poverty. In fact, approximately half of parents with children between the ages of 0-10 live in poverty (source: Migration Policy Institute. April 2021 ). Poverty and lack of English fluenc...

Welcome to the Blog of People's Power Lab. The People’s Power Lab is a Triangle, North Carolina-based organization with a mission to build the power of Black, Brown, and Muslim working-class youth and adults through political education, media justice, and recruiting them to the broader progressive movement. Goals - Build consciousness of our crises and solution to our crises through political education. - Develop grassroots media strategies to amplify our message. - Organize our people to take actions against crises faced by them. - Recruit community members to the broader social justice movement with an intersectional lens. PPL organizes working-class African American; South Asian/Middle Eastern immigrants, and refugees in the Triangle area of North Carolina, and Rocky Mount, NC. Many of refugee members in our base include Rohingya, Afghan, Syrian, Somali, Congolese, Rwandan, and other refugees. Some of the crises we organize for include healthcare/mental health justice, worker...