In 2010 PERRO received a grant along with other Pilsen community groups to help develop a project to benefit the community and seek to address climate change. The result of the project was the building of a community garden. This video was just released by the funder, the Field Museum:
Pilsen Documentary from The Field Museum on Vimeo.
Photos Here:
If you don’t see a slideshow above, use this link to see the photos directly.
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If you were there and would like to share your videos or photos, please email dorian@pilsenperro.org.
Join PERRO and others for this city-wide march against coal pollution!
The air we breathe is being destroyed by the corporate greed of Midwest Generation, owner and operator of the Fisk and Crawford coal fire power plants.
We are tired of our health and environment being sold in the profit market. We are tired of 40+ premature deaths per year, 2800 asthma attacks per year, 500 emergency room visits per year. And we are not sorry for letting public health disrupt the private profit of Midwest Generation. If you are also not sorry, join us in our city-wide day of action against coal.
We will have several actions to target the main culprits; Midwest Generation and it’s investor Bank of America.
Schedule:
10:00 AM- Teach-in about climate change by Rising Tide at Rudy Lozano Public Library 18th and Loomis.
11:00 AM – Bank of America Customers pull their money out at 18th Street Branch – with rally outside.
12:00 Rally at Plaza Tenochtitlan 18th Street and Loomis Ave.
12:30 PM Press Conference
1:00 PM March begins
2:00 PM We arrive at LaSalle and Jackson and join Occupy Chicago then march to Midwest Generations Corporate HQ at 440 S. La Salle St.
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Chicago, IL — On Tuesday, November 22nd, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) officially declared Pilsen a “non-attainment area” for violating the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for airborne lead pollution. The designation was made quietly with a listing in the government’s official Federal Register. The designation follows months of community input and consideration by the EPA. PERRO (The Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization) organized much of the input from the Pilsen community during the EPA’s designated public comment period last Summer. Only four other communities in the entire United States were given similar designations last week. Pilsen is the only community in a major urban area among those listed. It was also the only community to elicit substantial public comment.
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PERRO and Pros Arts Studios held the Dia de los Muertos Procession 2011 in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. The procession called on cleaning up the pollution in Pilsen’s Air.
Photos are here. If you were there and would like to share your videos or photos, please email dorian@pilsenperro.org.
See Daniel Schiller’s take on Dia de los Muertos and this issue on his blog post here.
Day of the Dead Community Procession – remembering those that have died from pollution and calling for clean air!
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Join PERRO this year’s Dia de los Muertos celebration, Muertos de la Risa with the Clean Air Brigade- an evening of spectacle, community activism and ancestral remembrance in joyful celebration, thigh-slapping carcajadas and belly lautghter.
DATE: November 2, 2011 COST: FREE
TIME: 4-7 p.m.
WHERE: Dvorak Park, 1119 W. Cullerton St.
Join us for a community procession featuring giant pole puppets, face painting, and street-level ofrendas – remembering those that have died from pollution and calling for clean air!:
4 p.m. Face painting and Community Ofrenda
5 p.m. Calavera Circus
6 p.m. Community Procession (starting from Dvorak Park)
7 p.m. Refreshments: Hot Chocolate and Pan de Muerto
For more info visit: pilsenperro.org or call Jerry Mead at (312) 502 7867.
Come to PERRO’s community forum this Saturday and find out how to get involved in cleaning up the pollution in Pilsen.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1
@ RUDY LOZANO LIBRARY
1805 S. LOOMIS
2-4 P.M.
This meeting will be conducted in both English and Spanish.
We will discuss our current campaigns/projects and how you can get involved with the work we’re doing in Pilsen to fight pollution. Light refreshments will be served.
Any questions, contact info@pilsenperro.org or call (312) 854-9247
Hope you can make it!
Chicago, IL — Local Chicago resident, Stephanie Dunn, started a hunger strike on August 1st in downtown Chicago to call on the Mayor and City Council of Chicago to pass the Chicago Clean Power Ordinance.
Please show your support for Stephanie by joining and visiting with her in Daley Plaza, in downtown Chicago, and to contact the Mayor of Chicago or the non-sponsoring Aldermen by calling 311. You can contact Stephanie at (312) 768-9949.
Stephanie will be holding her hunger strike until the end of Friday August 5.
