Margaret Kwateng
Margaret Kwateng was on staff at New York Professional Nurses Union. She is the National Green New Deal Organizer at Grassroots Global Justice, where she is working with members to build toward a regenerative feminist economy. Prior to joining GGJ, Margaret worked for years as a community and labor organizer in working class communities of color and with rank and file nurses. In 2014, she co-founded Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, a multi-issue community organization in upstate New York. As a former member of GGJ’s sister alliance, Right to the City, Margaret’s became plugged into GGJ activities such as the CJA conference in 2015, the ITR People’s Caravan in 2016, as well as local and broader actions throughout 2017. She currently lives in Brooklyn, where she was born and raised.[1]
Education
Studies at The Murphy Institute - CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies.
2024 Advisory Board
For the Many 2024 Advisory Board members Margaret Kwateng, Spencer Resnick, Giselle Martinez, Megan Deichler, James Lopez , Ben Malley[2]
The Peopes Congress
October 2020.
Lucia Lin Grassroots Asians Rising, Asha Ransby Sporn Defund CPD Campaign, Margaret Kwateng National Green New Deal organizer at Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Monifa Bandele Movement for Black Lives.
Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson
Margaret Kwateng worked at Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, which is an organization of people in Poughkeepsie, NY who are fighting to make their gas and electric utilities more affordable.
- I am an organizer with the group and spend most of my time working with members on storytelling, thinking about strategy, and knocking on many doors in the neighborhood to talk about the issues people are facing. I am also one of the leaders of the Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition and work with other organizations who believe that fighting for a world where Black Lives Matter means reshaping all institutions that disproportionately harm black communities, from schools, to utility companies to police and prisons.[3]
Comrades
Jonathan Bix September 22, 2014 ·
With Margaret Kwateng, Chris Knoeppel Spencer Resnick, .
It Takes Roots People's Caravan
It Takes Roots People's Caravan took place in July 2016. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance launched the It Takes Roots to Change the System People’s Caravan from the RNC to the DNC. Nearly 40 community leaders and allies from the US and Honduras traveled in a bus from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, stopping along the way to build with communities in Pittsburgh and Baltimore fighting for environmental and racial justice.
Caravanistas included Margaret Kwateng, LeftRoots/Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Radical gathering
Alex Deane, October 15, 2016:
- Blessed — with Marcus Garvey, Jordan Taylor, Spencer Resnick, Margaret Kwateng, Jordan Roque, Shalawn Brown and Ilana Berger.
Black Lives Matter Coalition
Margaret Kwateng, was in 2016, a member of the Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition.[4]
""Introduction to Black feminism"
"Intro to Black Feminism" hosted by Sendolo Diaminah Cazembe Jackson, and Adrienne Maree Brown.
Tuesday, August 15 at 8:30 PM
Created for Black August Practice Group.
Sendolo Diaminah August 15, 2017;
- Black people! Tonight my beloved sister Adrienne Maree Brown is leading a web discussion about Black Feminism as part of a series of Black August political education sessions hosted by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and BOLD.[5]
Those expressing interest on Facebook included Margaret Kwateng .