City Life/Vida Urbana

City Life / Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization dedicated to fighting for racial, social and economic justice and gender equality through establishment of the working class power. We promote individual empowerment, cultivate community leaders, build collective power, achieve systematic change, and transform society.

You can join our weekly meeting and meet with organizers and lawyers, or meet other people who are fighting the same. We have a meeting in three places.

City Life / Vida Urbana Executive Director Lisa Owens motivates audiences at the 45th anniversary ceremony of the organization

More than 300 people celebrate grassroots activity to prevent 45th birthday party in urban life / Vida Bana, banishment of Uprise

Members and supporters of city life took action at the end of the organization's 45th anniversary ceremony

City Life's Housing Justice Organizer and Supporter / Vida Urbana celebrates 45th Anniversary of City Life

Born in Roxbury, actress and singer Huffman played a song called "I stand up" for City Life / Vidae Bana 45th birthday party.

Gail Appling and Andres del Castillo MC'd City Life / Vida Urbana celebrates 45th anniversary.

Multimedia equipment including video documentary recorded 45 years history of City Life / Vida Urbana's residential justice victory at Uprise

Red Sage Stories made improvised dramas based on the story of movement and resistance collected from the audience.

A multimedia installation including a large collage is thanks to the 45 year history of the Uprise group, to the city's life justice / Vida Urbana.

Let 's celebrate the history of black people and take actions for racial justice! Let's respect Boston's largest housing judicial leader, late Jim Brooks. Then take action - appeal to the MA State Assembly to support the Jim Brooks Community Stabilization Act. And turn on this volume of video - you will not want to miss the amazing songs in it. #YesOnJimBrooks

"This association is a project of Housing Justice Organization City Life / Vida Urbana, organization organization coordinator Steve Meacham started a career at the shipyard's Boston Shipyard, when he became a residential activist he The labor union "Trade union and labor union at work!" According to Massachusetts law, the landlord can freely increase the rent and move without reason. Tenant organizations like city lifestyle organizations were able to win the collective bargaining. He said, "We have adapted this organizational model to create a tenant association for a landlord that is a bank to solve a collective solution to the foreclosure crisis." (7)

City Life / Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization dedicated to fighting for racial, social and economic justice and gender equality through establishment of the working class power. We promote individual empowerment, cultivate community leaders, build collective power, achieve systematic change, and transform society. Let 's celebrate the history of black people and take actions for racial justice! Let's respect Boston's largest housing judicial leader, late Jim Brooks. Then take action - appeal to the MA State Assembly to support the Jim Brooks Community Stabilization Act. And turn on this volume of video - you will not want to miss the amazing songs in it. #YesOnJimBrooks