Donate online through our secure Network for Good site. You can make a one time donation or you can become a sustainer by setting up a reoccurring monthly paymnet with your credit or debt card. Volunteer your time with DAWG Become a member of DAWG Help DAWG start a local organizing committee in your community. Invite one [read more]
2010 Program Highlights Download the full 2010 Annual Report Mountain Health Choices – WV Medicaid West Virginia was one of the first states to request a waiver under the Deficit Reduction Act to change their state’s Medicaid program. The new program, Mountain Health Choices, had a terrible impact on families. The two tiered [read more]
Whatever is necessary to ensure that people in poverty are heard and listened to on issues that affect our lives Empower current and former welfare recipients, low wage workers, and people living in poverty by providing them with the knowledge and the tools to change their lives. Educate current and former welfare recipients, low wage [read more]
DAWG grew out of a small group of welfare moms who met in an apartment in a low-income housing project. As we learned the rules and regulations of the many programs that affected our families, we began to share our knowledge with others in the community. When we began to move off public assistance and [read more]
Direct Action Welfare Group (DAWG) is a statewide grassroots organization comprised of current and former public assistance recipients, low wage workers, people living in poverty, and concerned individuals who come together to share information and ideas and to advocate for each other, their neighbors, and themselves. Direct Action Welfare Group’s vision is the end of [read more]
2009 Program Highlights Download the full 2009 Annual Report Region 2 One Day Conference In January, DAWG held a a one day training for families in Region 2 at the Schoenbaum Family Enrichment Center in Charleston, WV. The event was attended by 46 individuals from Kanawha, Roane, Putnam, and Mingo counties, as well as, several [read more]
2008 Highlights Download the full 2008 Annual Report Appalachian Immersion Train the Trainers Trip DAWG hosted a Train the Trainers Immersion Trip in conjunction with Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary of Columbia University. The trip was attended by students and faculty from 12 different colleges and universities including Columbia University, Ithaca College, Boston [read more]
2007 Program Highlights Download the full 2007 Annual Report Poverty Initiative’s Appalachian Immersion Trip In January, DAWG hosted a day of education for students participating in Union Theological Seminary’s Appalachian Immersion Trip. Speakers included members of DAWG, the Bishop of the Wheeling Charleston Diocese, the Executive Director of WV Council of Churches, and the [read more]
Download the full 2006 Annual Report
2005 Program Highlights Issue Organizing D.A.W.G. organized in 2005 around several issues including the Federal Budget Cuts, Welfare Reauthorization, and Medicaid changes on the state level. D.A.W.G. joined with representatives from labor unions, business, and community providers to form Families and Children Educate the State (FACES) on Medicaid as a response to proposed changes [read more]
“If you have the solution to my problem. Then you are my leader.” Willie Baptist has been organizing the homeless and the poor for over 40 years. He was active in the Nation Union of the Homeless, Kensington Welfare Rights Union,and Poverty Scholars. He is co-author of Pedagogy of the Poor. The day before Occupy [read more]
On November 30 the city of Huntington served an eviction notice on Occupy Huntington to be executed the following day at 4pm. The decision was made by the occupiers to dismantle the camp to save the supplies and tents for reoccupation. At 4am the police showed up to dismantle the remaining structures. Click here to [read more]
On Day 17 Occupy Huntington marched to Marshall University for a student walk out. Click here to watch the video.
DAWG member Carlos Fields has been with Occupy Huntington since day one. Noticing the general lack of involvement of the black community, Carlos decided to issue this call. Click HERE to watch the video.
Here’s a little FAQ from our friends over at the AFL-CIO What is Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street is a series of demonstrations that began on Sept. 17 in Zuccotti Park in New York City. It calls itself a “leaderless resistance movement” with a broad range of participants, mainly protesting economic inequality, Wall Street [read more]
DAWG members are attending Occupy Charleston. Here is video from Day 1. It includes Si Kahn who stopped by to talk with the crowd despite his laryngitis. Click HERE to view the video 200+ marched from near the capitol to Haddad River Front Park stopping along the way at Chase Bank and the Robert C. [read more]
WORKING PEOPLE –- wake up! The world has changed and these corporations don’t need us anymore! If we are not needed, why feed us? Why house us? Why educate us? Why provide medical support for us? Because the world has changed and continues to throw millions of laborers out into the streets each day, we [read more]
DAWG members are attending Occupy Huntington. Here is a video produced by DAWG from the first day of the occupation. Click HERE to watch
The Occupy Movement which started on Wall Street On September 17, 2011 has grown to a national movement. On October 6, 2011, WV joined in the movement with Occupy Huntington. On October 15, 2011 the movement goes global . DAWG will be participating in the Occupies taking place throughout the state. We hope to see you there or at [read more]
In August 2011 John “Chicago” Hough sat down with General Baker to discuss labor history and union organizing in Detroit. This Learn to Lead video is part of that interview. In this video General Baker talks about the history of the United Auto Workers(UAW) and the deep connection they have with the United Mine Workers (UMWA) and [read more]
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