CLEAN AIR, CLEAN WATER, COMMUNITY POWER.
Let’s organize to win the El Paso we deserve. Become a member today.
WHO WE ARE
Amanecer People’s Project is a community and power-building organization working to move decision making power in El Paso away from polluting elites and into the hands of people in our community living with the effects of pollution and the risks of climate change. We fight for clean air, clean water, and community control of our resources.
Community organizing is when people work together to improve their lives. Amanecer relies on developing leaders to understand power, tell their stories, and determine our own future for the city. We believe that people closest to the problems—everyday El Pasoans—are the closest to the solutions. Together, we can organize to change the conditions of what’s possible in El Paso.
WHAT WE DO
Amanecer builds on the work of El Pasoans fighting to protect our community from people who believe their ability to make money is more important than our ability to live without the effects of pollution or the risks of climate change.
Amanecer members have previously worked on trying to stop J.P Morgan from buying our local electric company, fighting the construction of a new gas plant (and winning historic concessions in the process), and most visibly were at the heart of the effort to put the El Paso Climate Charter (Proposition K) on the ballot in front of voters by collecting more than 40,000 signatures from the community. Prop K would have meant goals for a more abundant and healthier El Paso written into city law– polluters spent millions in a campaign to stop that from happening.
Continuing the fight for community power to us means working hard to make an organization capable of standing up to polluting elites again and again. We want to grow a base that can make sure the leaders of our city don’t continue to treat us as disposable in the face of climate disasters or as people whose health can be sacrificed for the sake of profit. El Paso deserves better. We know that El Pasoans can make that possible with the hard work of organizing.