Sector:
Nonprofit
Last updated:
September 17, 2009
Phone:
212 561 0555
Mission:
We are an immigrant-led multi-issue organization fighting for justice in East Harlem, New York. Movimiento was founded to fight against a voracious trend towards gentrification that is devouring low-income housing and displacing immigrant families from their homes.
In 2007, after a comprehensive community driven consultation process, Movimiento will launch a new campaign on another issue affecting immigrant communities in East Harlem.
Members practice collective decision-making and democracy at regularly-held leadership meetings where they participate in skills-building workshops and deepen their political analysis through workshops on the root causes of injustice and other locally-based social justice movements around the world.
Movimiento requires the community to set the direction of the organization through participatory democracy and was recently named the “Best Power to the People Movement in NYC” by the Village Voice.
