The following are resources to support, learn and get involved with liberatory organizations in Puerto Rico, Chicago, Western Massachusetts, and New York. It is something you can DO. We strongly believe in local, mutual aid organizations as places of sustaining, radical change and for building community. Whether you volunteer, give, follow, attend an event, these are all spaces and people who are doing good work.
We are not affiliated with any of these organizations but believe in them and think you should too.
We grounded this project in Puerto Rican self-determination, from the voices of the performers to the font we are using on our visual materials. The organizations below are ones we trust. The end of over 100 years of colonization, displacement, and disempowerment will come from the people.
La Goyco is a vibrant cultural center in Santurce, Puerto Rico, dedicated to empowering the community through educational programs, cultural workshops, and health initiatives.
Casa Pueblo is a community self-management project that is committed to appreciating and protecting natural, cultural, and human resources in Puerto Rico.
Taller Salud is a community based feminist organization dedicated to improving women’s access to health care, to reducing violence within the community and to encourage economic growth through education and activism in Puerto Rico.
Colectiva Feminista en Construcción is a political organization that is based on the legacy of black and decolonial feminism. Through political training, agitation and denunciation, direct action, they organize around coalitions and create strategic alliances with other sectors, to develop alternatives through policy.
Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora (BUDPR) is a national advocacy organization of Puerto Ricans in the United States working toward a free, just, and prosperous future for Puerto Rico.
Con(Sentimientos) es un medio digital independiente creando contenido feminista y político en Puerto Rico.
El Otro Puerto Rico Nuestra organización lucha por lo que hemos denominado como el derecho a quedarnos. Esto implica ofrecer a cada puertorriqueñx la posibilidad de quedarnos en nuestra tierra para prosperar y desarrollarnos plenamente en ella.
Holyoke, MA has the largest Puerto Rican population, per capita, of any city in the United States outside of the Puerto Rican archipelago. Our work here has concentrated on land, agriculture and student-led media. There are so many ways of getting involved in Holyoke and joining meaningful action. These are just a few.
Nuestras Raíces is a grassroots urban agriculture organization based in Holyoke, MA. Committed to building a just food system, boost economic development, and produce specialty cultural crops for the Latino community.
Riquezas de Campo is an immigrant-led, worker-owned cooperative farm in Hatfield, MA. They are dedicated to making nutritious, organically grown produce accessible to everyone, including low-income folks. They provide education and training to members and community about cooperative economics and sustainable agricultural practices.
Holyoke Media’s vision is to promote transparency in government and provide opportunities to elevate traditionally disenfranchised voices by literally and figuratively handing the mic to those most often left out of media production and dissemination.
Pa’lante builds youth power to heal and transform interpersonal harm and systemic injustices.
Nueva York is home to the largest group of Boricuas off the archipelago, and we claim it. The organizations below are embedded in NYC communities and provide vital support for youth, for learning and activism.
Henry Street Settlement’s mission is to open doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social services, arts, and health care programs. The organization is distinguished by its commitment to listening to and learning from our neighbors—and then acting to meet the most pressing needs of our community.
CENTRO The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.
El Puente is nurturing the next generation of leaders and using the power of art to advocate for equitable community sustainability and self-determination
Home to the only officially designated Puerto Rican neighborhood in the United States, Paseo Boricua, Chicago is the hub for the Puerto Rican community in the Midwest.
The Puerto Rican Cultural Center is a 50+ year old organization that has been foundational to the creation of Paseo Boricua, as it is known—the economic, political, and cultural capital of the Puerto Rican community in the Midwest. It encapsulates the historical efforts of the same to resist gentrification through efforts such as the establishment of Puerto Rico Town.
Anchored in Chicago, the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance is a vibrant, 25-year-old music and arts nonprofit organization that develops culturally enriching and transforming programs, performances, exhibitions, and events inspiring 30,000 annually while encouraging future generations to grow appreciation for Puerto Rican heritage and culture.
NeighborSpace is the only nonprofit urban land trust in Chicago that preserves and sustains gardens on behalf of dedicated community groups. NeighborSpace-protected gardens give young and old alike an opportunity to get their hands in the earth and enjoy nature, right in their own neighborhoods.
Roots and Rays is a volunteer-run urban garden designed to grow organic food for the people of Pilsen, grow knowledge through experience, and grow community by providing a safe shared green-space.
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