Borough Based Liberation Project (BBLP)

The Borough Based Liberation Project is a series of neighborhood cultural events and interventions to collectively vision abolition, climate justice, migrant justice, and housing futures in New York City. For the month of September, our project will activate this storefront to serve as a centralized hub for our organizing. As our communities converge, learn, and share together, we will co-create an intersectional space that connects our local and global struggles to build solidarity and power. The project’s “Abolitionist Futures” theme will spotlight local resistance and link struggles for liberation from NYC to Palestine to indigenous territories in Abya Yala through art workshops, exhibitions, teach-ins, gatherings, performances, and celebrations.

City in Resistance is a week-long space for gathering, exchange, and organizing during Earth Week, in parallel to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Building on the 2024 Borough Based Liberation Project, this convening brings together Indigenous land defenders, artists, and organizers from across territories and New York City. Through workshops, conversations, and shared space, participants will build connections across movements addressing land, housing, sovereignty, and collective survival. Rooted in Chinatown’s legacy of resistance, the project asks what futures we can build together beyond carceral systems.