Subject(s): Empowerment -- Women -- Dalit -- Supporting traditional development projects to launching an effective empowerment movement, psychological oppression among Dalits informs efforts to fight for their rights against all odds, SEWA- self employed women's association- empowers both urban and rural women through union organizing on state, national and international scales -- Emboldening landless to gain their legal rights and facilitating social transformation of the rural downtrodden in south India, leader in Gujarat demonstrates powerful impact of budget analysis, beyond that of local organizing to press for larger investments in improving the lives of tribal people, varying experiences with advocacy, disaster relief and efforts for communal harmony in empowerment context, movement leaders reflect on their various experiences and offer conclusion on how to be most effective in empowering the oppressed, insights from unique foreign aid approach of unitarian-universalist holdeen India program