Location: Wildflower Community Room.
Sponsored by the Social Action Committee. Childcare will be available.
After our worship service, experienced activist
Susana Almanza will speak to us about how
people can support an affordable alternative for the very vulnerable
residents of the Cactus Rose Trailer Park in East Austin, and about the
history and process that has led up to this point. This long-running issue now
has a creative and effective community-led policy solution on the horizon.
As teams in our congregation begin to learn how to advocate
for and empower our own neighbors in their struggles to protect their
neighborhoods and affordable housing, we have much to learn from Susana
Almanza’s deep experience in grassroots organizing.
Susana Almanza
is a founding organizer of People Organized in Defense of Earth and her
Resources (PODER) and is President of the Montopolis Neighborhood Plan
Contact Team. She has led many successful campaigns to achieve environmental
justice in East Austin, including the closure of the infamous Tank Farm and the
Holly Power Plant. She was the winner of the 2013
Distinguished Service Award for public service as a member of the Hispanic/Latino
Quality of Life Community Oversight Team awarded by the Austin City Council,
the 2011 International Women’s Day award for Environmentalist of the
Year, and many others.
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