Experience

Union de Vecinos

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Director

  • Jan 1996 - Present

  Union de Vecinos is a grassroots community based organization that promotes civic participation, democracy, and the development of community power in Boyle Heights (East LA) and the City of Maywood. Our members represent all sectors of our community: tenants, homeowners, families, youth, seniors, immigrants, low income families, working class families, and small business owners. Union de Vecinos started in 1996 fighting against the demolition of the Pico Aliso public housing projects. Nineteen years later we have grown to a Network of Neighborhood and Issue Committees promoting economic and environmental justice, civic engagement, affordable housing, and building healthy and stable community neighborhoods. We do this through community organizing, popular education and direct action. Show less