City Life/Vida Urbana (Massachussets)

City Life/Vida Urbana is proof that local residents, when active and organized, can significantly improve their own lives. Created in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston in 1973 by political activists influenced by the civil rights, feminist, and anti-Vietnam War movements, City Life/Vida Urbana's successful strikes and eviction blockings quickly made the organization visible with tenants, landlords, urban planners, and public officials.

City Life/Vida Urbana's commitment to community control of local resources, means that it has always been involved in a wide range of struggles: organizing for public education and welfare rights, working against racism, supporting grassroots labor organizing, empowering youth, and building international solidarity with justice movements in Central America, Palestine, and South Africa.