Summer Assembly: Worcester Field Day

What would sports look like in a solidarity economy? Join us at our Summer 2025 Assembly in Worcester!

Host: Boston Ujima Project

Partners: Embrace Boston, DS4SI, DSNI, All-African People's Revolutionary Party / African Awareness Revolutionary Unity, Dorchester Art Project

Date: Saturday, July 19, 2025

Location: Worcester, MA

This summer, we’re leaving the city and taking our work outdoors!On Saturday, July 19, the Assembly convenes in Worcester for a special summer edition: Field Day.

In the United States, sports are a billion-dollar industry built on the backs of Black and POC labor. From high school and college athletics to the NBA, Black and brown players have generated wealth they rarely get to keep, while ownership remains overwhelmingly white and male. Elsewhere, working class and BIPOC communities labor behind the scenes—as stadium staff, newsroom editors, anchors, vendors, and medics—powering a billion-dollar industry that rarely returns the wealth to those who sustain it. Team mascots, stadiums, contracts, and TV deals are often structured to extract, exploit, and discard.

But what if we built something else?

What if the players were the owners?

What if competition didn’t mean disposability—and movement meant healing?

On July 19, we’ll gather in Worcester to experiment with a different kind of sports economy—one rooted in collective power, not private profit. Our Summer 2025 Assembly Field Day will center physical movement as political practice and explore sports as a site of economic justice.

Whether you're an athlete, organizer, artist, or just someone who loves to stretch in the sun, this day is for you. We’re dreaming together: of cooperative leagues, community-owned gyms, embodied care, and joy that circulates.

Boston, we’re on the move. Pack a bag and bring your squad. It’s time to stretch. To sweat. To practice liberation in motion.

See you in Worcester.