Pilsen Alliance and our allies at Femme Defensa work to serve our hardest hit communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. We assist in providing mutual aid support, including foodboxes, emergency funds & tenants rights training and direct action advocacy. Our work is centered and focused on most vulnerable populations including elder citizens, people with disabilities, the …
The Pilsen Alliance holds true that housing is a human right. Our community has fallen prey to predatory land speculation and gentrification which has displaced many long time residents and triggered a spike in poverty and we are bringing forth to bear all of the organizing tools needed to wage a sustainable campaign for housing …
We organize with parents, youth, teachers and community to address educational challenges and inequalities that negatively impact low income communities of color. We recruit and train grassroots leaders to organize for self-determination and to be the decision makers in the community. Our direct action efforts are aimed to hold our leaders accountable to the community. …
