Angel Vera
Community Organizer
Angel Vera, a community organizer with Make the Road NY, talks about his experience arriving to the United States from Ecuador where he was a political activist, and of his involvement with MTRNY. In this Spanish interview, he shares his stories of how he goes about building community at weekly meetings hosted by MTRNY that address issues of housing displacement and rent fraud affecting Bushwick's immigrant Latino population.
Interview Details:
Interview Title:
Interview with Angel Vera
Interviewee:
Angel Vera
Job Title:
Community organizer
Interviewer:
Cynthia Tobar
Interview Date:
November 10, 2015
Length:
43:40
Resource Type:
Recording, video
Format:
Digital, mp4
Subject:
Immigration, Community organizing, Affordable housing, Activism, Displacement
Rights:
Cities for People, Not for Profit: Gentrification and Housing Justice in Bushwick by Cynthia Tobar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Digital ID:
Vera_Angel.mp4
Reference URL:
http://citiesforppl.org/interviews/interview-with-angel-vera
Bibliographic Citation:
"Interview with Angel Vera," in Cities for People, Not for Profit: Gentrification and Housing Justice in Bushwick, http://citiesforppl.org/interview/interview-angel-vera