Palenque LSNA is a catalyst for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Immigrant communities and allies to take care of one another and take strategic action for systemic change and a just, resilient, and joyful future.
We welcome new arrivals as our new neighbors. • We recognize this is not a new crisis now but one people have been forced to navigate for a very long time. • We acknowledge the root causes as policies and social structures that have been orchestrated by Western governments to claim power while displacing and uprooting people from their homes. • We know if systems continue to make life impossible for people to live with abundance, we will have refugees everywhere. • We act in response through community actions and connections to provide basic and essential needs, resources, and comfortable spaces to decompress. • We collaborate to share stories that tell how similar many of our experiences really are. • We stand in solidarity with our longstanding and our new neighbors. We support peace and justice.
Learn more about our creating sanctuary and solidarity work and download our coloring book.
Flor Mata, a 21-year-old Portage Park resident, attended Saturday’s event for the first time, motivated by her passion for affordable housing. Mata said she felt compelled to get involved after learning about housing issues during a summer internship with Palenque LSNA.
She emphasized the need for community awareness and action. “I definitely think it’s important for people to become more informed and learn about what they can do and what their actions can do to impact other people’s lives,” she said. “These vacant houses could be used by people who really need them, especially during the winter and the holiday season.”
