The Peoples Port Authority

Youth program - this program enriches The participants' lives and stimulates The local economy by paying for local childcare services and local lodging and paying people for their time and effort towards The program. Calle la paz provides The opportunity for young folks to work and learn in puerto rico. Over The course of two weeks, they will begin to understand environmental justice, develop an understanding of community resilience, and engage in solidarity work with local farmers. They will develop solidarity by engaging in farming with local farmers who live in The western mountains of puerto rico, las marias. Developing a deep understanding of community resilience, students will understand how The community of rio caas arriba used available resources to respond to, withstand, and thrive from 500 years of colonization, hurricanes, and more.

Green justice zones program - a green justice zone is an innovative new model to protect marginalized communities from corporate polluters and fund long-overdue environmental remediation projects. Green justice zone will enable The community to dismantle pollution-intensive facilities such as petroleum refineries and hazardous waste storage sites in The designated area, protecting residents from The severe health impacts of highly toxic industries. The green justice zone program will also provide funding for environmental remediation projects such as weatherization, building microgrids, replacing lead pipes, and installing air filtration systems in zone residents' homes to be allocated by a participatory process in which zone residents will choose, through a local referendum, which environmental remediation projects to prioritize.