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Today, we're featuring UPROSE, United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park (UPROSE)!

UPROSE "is an environmental justice and social justice community based organization located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Founded in 1964, UPROSE is Brooklyn’s oldest latino community organization." UPROSE is "a multiracial, multicultural and intergenerational organization dedicated to facilitating broad and converging sustainable development and youth justice campaigns.

Currently, they are building community power through broad and converging campaigns/projects, developing local indigenous leadership, and fighting for social, environmental, food, and transportation justice.

More at http://uprose.org/.

Be their Facebook friend: https://www.facebook.com/uprose.

Follow @UPROSE: https://twitter.com/UPROSE

Many thanks to them for sharing thoughts on Live Real's 20-question survey on next steps for the youth food movement! We invite folks working with food and youth development to do the same:

http://liverealnow.weebly.com/shaping-our-future.html.

Photo: UPROSE