Lisa Owens
Lisa Husniyyah Owens Pinto is a Massachusetts activist.
Background
Lisa Owens, Executive Director at City Life/Vida Urbana, a Boston based grassroots organization working to build social, racial and economic justice and gender equality. City Life’s principal work is 1) to stop displacement of working-class communities now--through grassroots organizing and leadership development, direct action protest and civil legal aid, 2) to create permanent social ownership of land and housing, 3) to support the demands of working-class community groups for real power and decision making over long-term planning and development in our cities, and 4) to advocate for policies and programs within local governments across the country that support our goals. Lisa has been actively involved in social movement building groups for over 25 years. Lisa is currently a board member of the Boston based Coalition of Occupied Homes in Foreclosure (COHIF), which is building an anti-displacement land trust linked to local tenant organizing struggles.
She is a board member of Resist, a national foundation that supports people's movements for justice and liberation. And, she is a member of LeftRoots, a national formation of social movement organizers and activists who are connecting grassroots struggles to a strategy to win liberation for all people and the planet.[1]
LeftRoots to Brazil
Support LeftRoots comrades to attend the international school of Transnational Decolonial Black Feminism in the Americas to be held in Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil from July 29 to August 2, 2019.
With some support from LeftRoots, 7 cadres will be traveling to Bahia, Brazil to learn and engage with Black Feminists from across the Americas and the globe to deepen our feminist socialist praxis. We are raising $10,000 by April 19 to go toward airfare and other travel costs in order to attend the program.
Black women are a driving force in the movement for social and economic justice in Brazil, even as far-right president Bolsonaro pushes a racist and homophobic agenda centered on militarization and privatization. We continue to mourn the brutal assassination of activist and politician Marielle Franco and honor her legacy and call to resist. We see the Decolonial Black Feminism school as an opportunity to practice internationalism and learn from Black feminists across the diaspora.[2]
Delegates included Vanessa Moses, Brianna Gibson, Jayanni Webster, Lisa Husniyyah Owens, Sian Miranda Singh OFaolain IV, Paige Amanda Kumm.
BOSTON RESILIENCE COLLABORATIVE
Resilient Boston is the result of input from more than 11,000 Bostonians. It reflects a collaborative and inclusive approach to developing solutions to address racial equity and resilience challenges. It seeks to break down typical City silos, use data to inform decision-making, and ensure that programs and policies are developed using a racial equity lens.
Steering Committee (Phase I: Establishing the Foundation)
- Felix D. Arroyo
- Magdalena Ayed
- Kalila Barnett
- Soledad Boyd
- Bithiah Carter
- Thomas Chang
- Elyse Cherry
- Michael Curry
- Rick Domini
- Sherry Dong
- Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal
- Mia Goldwasser
- Tucker Husband
- Tito Jackson
- James Jennings
- Todd Johnson
- Dan Koh
- Stacey Kokaram
- Juan Leyton
- Joyce Linehan
- Allistair Mallillin
- Chris Marchi
- Jessica Martin
- Thaddeus Miles
- Eva Millona
- Patricia Montes
- Sara Myerson
- Lisa Owens
- Ayanna Pressley
- David Queeley
- Veronica Robles
- Jim Rooney
- Richard Serino
- Renata Teodoro
- Idali Torres
- Becca Tumposky
- Monica Valdes Lupi
- Alberto Vasallo III
- Elizabeth Walker
- Darnell Williams
- Julie Wormser[3]
"Roxbury Rally for Good Jobs! Stop Gentrification and Eviction!"
65 Warren St, Boston, Monday 6 October 2014, 17:00, organized by Boston Jobs Coalition
- The Boston that we love is increasingly unaffordable for poor and working class people in our neighborhoods. Meanwhile, billions of new dollars are flowing into the city to develop luxury housing and high end commercial space. We demand a Right to the City...
Those signalling their intention to attend on Wherevent included Phillip Reason, Andy Moxley, An Duong, Ester Serra Luque, Tu Anh Phan, Sarita Simpson, Aslin Perez, Rene E. Mardones, Jeffrey Nunes,Woody J. Vainqueur, Nodeos Sully, Allistair Mallillin, Hendrix Rose Berry, Jamie Bergeron, Christine Maguire, Lorrayne Shen, Carl Williams, Seth Newman, Amy Banelis, Steve Kirschbaum, Marv McMoore, Jr., Remy Valeros, Edmond Caldwell, Angela Kelly, Demianna Angelica Secondino, Peter Scott Rider, Dana Mendes, Jeff Durham, Mattie Loyce, Timothy Hall, Donald Cronin, Deborah D. Dancy, Philip Stango, Austin Williams, Monicka Majesky, LaDarro LD Hagans, Remy Valeros, Chandana Cherukupalli, Jean Charles, Teenah Maria Denyse, Gul Hatt, Priscilla Banks, Leon Rivera, Jason Lydon, Bhavin Patel, David Noiles, Lisa Husniyyah Owens Pinto, Sara Sheridan, Carolyn Chou, Curtis Rollins, Mukaji Gigi, Brian Shea, Carolyn Chou, Mike Horne, Chrislene DeJean, Mary Jo Connelly, Elizabeth Saunders, Leonardo March, Matt Parker, Jeffrey Nunes, Frank Neisser, Karen Narefsky, Crystal Rizzo, Mimi Turchinetz, Doyle Canning, Ashley Rose, Nodeos Sully, Darnell Johnson, Handel Dixon, Exkluzive Sanchez , Gianluca Baù, Troy Neves, Clayton Nino Brown, Sheena Collier, Judith Glaubman.[4]