This week’s #SupportBrooklyn highlights UPROSE, an intergenerational, multi-racial, nationally-recognized, women of color led, grassroots organization that promotes sustainability and resiliency through community organizing, education, leadership development and cultural/artistic expression in Brooklyn, NY.
“Sunset Park is a frontline BIPOC community of over 130,000 residents with overwhelming sources of pollution from 3 power plants in a ten-block radius, two solid waste transfer stations, the Gowanus Expressway (>200,000 cars and >25,000 diesel trucks daily), cement plants, brownfields, etc. For decades, UPROSE has been part of local, statewide, and national climate justice leadership - successfully creating community-led solutions and models for Just Transition. Our goal is to strengthen social cohesion and create a regenerative feminist economy grounded in racial justice and equity. A favorite Brooklyn memory of ours was after a seven-year fight against the multi-billion dollar private developer rezoning, UPROSE and the Sunset Park community celebrated the withdrawal of their rezoning application that would have rezoned 3.3 million square feet in NYC's largest Significant Maritime Industrial Area (SMIA) for luxury commercial, hotel, and entertainment uses.UPROSE's community-led alternative proposal- the Green Resilient Industrial District, is a comprehensive plan to bring mandated public investment for the green re-industrialization of Sunset Park and create thousands of local, well-paid, and accessible climate jobs in the community.”
For more information, please visit us at www.uprose.org, thank you!
UPROSE
Website: www.uprose.org
Email: [email protected]
Phone Number: 718 492 9307
Location: 462 36th st, Suite 3A, Brooklyn NY 11232.
Facebook: @UpRose BK
Instagram: @uprosebrooklyn
Twitter: @UPROSE
#SupportBrooklyn is a moment every other week where we highlight one of our favorite Brooklyn businesses and organizations. This series gives a voice to places that enrich the Brooklyn experience through their mission, spirit, and service. We’re in a moment of great uncertainty and the last year has been a difficult one for all—especially small businesses. So what a better way to spread some love than to give some love to our favorite Brooklyn spots!?
