La Unión Brooklyn

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• What We Do

  

  La Unión works under the following issue areas: Educational Justice: We address the educational disparities that impact immigrant, Latino, and African-American students by organizing immigrant parents and students to change the system. The Parents Committee works with Youth Action Changes Things (YACT), creating an intergenerational campaign that engages entire families to improve public school services,… Continue reading »

  

• How We Work

  

  La Unión builds leaders Educational Programs- Our open meetings and events provide critical information to the community on topics such as education, safe and affordable housing, nutrition, public safety and other local issues. Membership development- As members become more involved, they can increase their leadership skills through public speaking, meeting facilitation, new member recruitment, community… Continue reading »

  

• Who We Are

  

  WHO WE ARE La Unión is an organization of people of the global south working to advance the social, economic, and cultural rights of the communities where we now live and the communities we left behind. Our membership is composed of new immigrants living in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Because of… Continue reading »

  

• Youth Action Changes Things (Y-ACT)

  

  Youth Action Changes Things (Y-ACT) Y-ACT was founded by two Mexican-American young women who experienced health problems due to poor housing conditions in their neighborhood. They began organizing other youth from immigrant families around access to safe and healthy housing. In 2007, our youth leaders won a meeting with New York City Department of Health… Continue reading »

  

• Our Community

  

  Our membership is composed of new immigrants living in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Because of the transnational nature of many of our families, we also have strong ties to communities in the state of Puebla, Mexico.  A broken immigration system and the lack of political will to fix it impacts heavily on… Continue reading »

  

• Our History

  

  La Unión was founded in 2006 organizing low-wage immigrant workers who were suffering abuses in the supermarket industry, and soon after won the passage of Local Law 629A – ending the practice of locking-in janitors in supermarkets. On the heels of this victory, the workers began organizing around other issues such as immigration and education… Continue reading »