Docia Buffington

Docia Buffington

Docia Buffington, was in 2010, the partner of Abdul-Aziz Hassan.

baso

As a mission-driven business, baso is committed to connecting impactful, multi-million dollar projects with minority businesses and professionals. Through our network of minority and woman-owned design and construction firms, our projects achieve well over 70% MBE/WBE/VOB participation. Projects include the $34m development of The Hatchery Chicago — a 67k SF food incubator, the $2.5m build-out of The Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership — an 11k SF workforce development center, and the $40m development of Neal Math and Science Academy — a new 98k SF middle school in North Chicago.

baso is heavily involved in the communities it serves, often engaging stakeholders to inform design, instill ownership and guarantee impact. Critically, baso actively connects local youth and professionals to jumpstart the next generation of design and construction leaders. In 2001, Claudette Soto began VAMOS - a mentoring and STEAM immersion program for youth in her community. Since then, VAMOS has expanded to mentoring first-generation university students and early career professionals.

• Claudette Soto President
• Docia Buffington Director of Operations
• Aristeo Contreras Project Manager
• Lorena Reyes Administrative Assistant
• Milagro O'Grady Assistant Project Manager
• Carolina Nunez Permit Coordinator

Enlace

Docia Buffington was Development Director for Enlace Chicago.

Docia Buffington has worked with Enlace since 2009. Before coming to Enlace, she worked for nearly seven years as a labor, youth, and community organizer, traveling across the country to support campaigns focused on economic and social justice. Docia completed her degree with Honors at Roosevelt University after moving to Chicago in 2006.

Docia began at Enlace coordinating the placement of over 300 community members and youth in jobs and internships. During the 2010/2011 school year, Docia became Resource Coordinator at the Little Village Lawndale High School Campus. At the end of 2012, Docia left her position as Resource Coordinator to serve as organizer and principal writer of the 2013 Little Village Quality of Life Plan. As Development Director, Docia now coordinates fundraising and marketing for the organization.

YCL Midwest Voter Project

This Fourth of July, 2004, activists from across the country joined activists in Missouri, to defeat George W. Bush. Communist Party USA and Young Communist League members, alongside friends and allies from Texas, California, New York, and everywhere in between, have been plugged into local political battles.

The goal of the CPUSA’s Midwest Project was to defeat Bush and the ultra-right in America’s heartland. Central to the Missouri "part of the Midwest Project is helping to elect progressive, pro-labor candidates. Strengthening grassroots coalitions and building a broader movement to defeat Bush is tied directly into the efforts to build the Party and YCL."

After Missouri, the Midwest Project workers went to Ohio.

Participants included Tony Pecinovsky, Docia Buffington, Sheltreese McCoy, Joel Lewis and Cinomin Brothers.

YCLUSA

In 2008 Docia Buffington was co-chair of the Chicago Young Communist League USA.

Backing Obama in '08

According to a February 19 2008 article on Erica Smiley and the YCLUSA on New York's Columbia News Service, the organization was right behind Barack Obama;

This election, the league is largely banking on the candidacy of the junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. Smiley, who has been at the helm of the league for the past two years, noted that they will support any Democratic candidate who may potentially loosen labor laws and pass broad social reforms.

Docia Buffington, co-chair of the Chicago chapter, which has about 30 members, said in a phone interview that they have concentrated their campaign efforts on Little Village, a predominantly Latino area of the Windy City.

“I think it was clear that most people were excited about Obama rather than other candidates,” Buffington said. “I think that he does represent a certain kind of change, or it seems so.”

Communist Party USA

In September 2006 the Peoples Weekly Worldlisted several members of the Illinois Communist Party USA.

Joan Elbert, Barbara Russum, Bea Lumpkin, William Appelhans, Bill Mackovich, Carolyn Black, Carroll Krois, Dee Myles , Doug Freedman, Frank Lumpkin, John Bachtell, Kevin Collins, Lance Cohn, Mark Almberg, Marguerite Horberg, Martha Pedroza, Mike Giocondo, Pepe Lozano, Roberta Wood, Scott Marshall, Shelby Richardson, Sijisfredo Aviles, Sue Webb, Terrie Albano.

Saluting workers everywhere!

In 2009 the Peoples Weekly World carried an article "Saluting workers everywhere!"

Our unity makes Wall Street tremble

Employee Free Choice and universal health care!

A 'green', demilitarized, democratized economy that works for all!

Illinois Readers of the PWW signed the article.

Terrie Albano & John Bachtell - Jon Allen - Sijisfredo Aviles - Eric Robert Berdell - Carolyn Black & Bill Appelhans - Owen Brill - Helen Boothe - John Bradley - Docia Buffington & Abdul-Aziz Hassan - Cathy Campo & Kevin Lindeman - Cristobal Cavazos, Tania Brown & Anita Naoli - Andrew Chebuhar - Dean Christ & Joan Phillips - Ben Cline - Carmen Cohn & Lance Cohn - Alison Cooper - Clarice Durham - Joan Elbert - Thomas Fineberg & Maxine Fineberg - Oscar Forsman - Connie Hall - Ahmad Hassan - Harold Hill - Dajiang Hu - Marge Gamboa - Mike Giocondo & Carroll Krois - Luster Jackson - Ed Jenks & Mary Jenks - Earl R. Jones - Kenneth Kapel - Molly Kelley & Dallas Brown - Angela Larson & Bamshad Mobasher - Jim Lange - Joyce Lightfoot - Stephen Livingston - Guadalupe Lozano - Pepe Lozano - Bea Lumpkin & Frank Lumpkin - Megan Marshall - Scott Marshall & Roberta Wood -Bill Mackovich - Damien Matthews - Donn Miller - Stanley Moe - Ken Nelson - Tom Pace - Ted Pearson & Kathy Pearson - Martha Pedroza - Hector Pedroza - Shelby Richardson – Mark Rogovin & Michelle Rogovin - Barbara Russum -Armando Santos - Tom Shepherd - Evelyn Swan - Ruth Tregay -Kevin Tyson - John Wojcik.

National Party Building Conference

National Party Building Conference Hosted by Communist Party USA and People's World.

Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 12 PM – 6 PM EST

Join Communist Party activists and members in a national conference.

The conference will take place November 11th to 12th to plan our work in the fight against the Trump Administration and its white supremacist ruling class backers. Find information here about how to participate. http://www.cpusa.org/2017-national-party-building-conference-resist-organize-vote-grow/

The conference will be streamed from Chicago to regional meetings in New Haven, Los Angeles, and Orlando. Whether you’re on the East Coast, West Coast, in the MIdwest or the South, you’ll be able to participate.

Those invited on Facebook included Docia Buffington.

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