Activist’s Toolkit
Research, tools, maps, design proposals and reports.
Five Things You Can Do About Gentrification by Tom Angotti
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Bushwick Preservation Plan: A Values-based Approach, "Bushwick, You Don't Stop," Pratt Institute, 2015.
Parsons/New School, Design and Urban Ecologies, "A Right to Housing ¡Derecho A La Vivienda!," Bushwick gazette, 2015
Organizations
MAY DAY SPACE: Mayday is both a neighborhood resource and a citywide destination for engaging programming, a home for radical thought and debate, and a welcoming gathering place for people to work, learn, drink, dance and build together.
MAKE THE ROAD NY: Make the Road New York (MRNY) builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.
MI CASA NO ES SU CASA - ILLUMINATION AGAINST GENTRIFICATION: Mi Casa No Es Su Casa is an anti-capitalist collective of New Yorkers based in Bushwick-Brooklyn, using art + direct action to build a visible resistance to gentrification and the displacement of poor Black & Brown families in NYC and beyond.
BROOKLYN ANTI-GENTRIFICATION NETWORK (BAN): The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN) is a people of color-led, mass-based coalition of tenants, homeowners, block associations, anti-police brutality groups, legal and grassroots organizations working together to end the rampant gentrification and displacement of low to middle income residents of Brooklyn, New York
EL PUENTE: El Puente is a community human rights institution that promotes leadership for peace and justice through the engagement of members (youth and adult) in the arts, education, scientific research, wellness and environmental action.
BUSHWICK ACTION RESEARCH COLLECTIVE: The Bushwick Action Research Collective is an intergenerational team from Make the Road New York & the Public Science Project. Our team is made up of organizers, researchers, and students from Bushwick and other New York City neighborhoods who are working together to understand young people’s experiences of school and community.