Displaced From This Place?

Urban Investigations

Displaced From This Place?

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

Language Rights are Civil Rights!

Public Access Design

Language Rights are Civil Rights!

I Heart East New York

Urban Investigations

I Heart East New York

Who Benefits from Community Benefit Agreements?

Urban Investigations

Who Benefits from Community Benefit Agreements?

I Got Arrested! Now What?

Making Policy Public

I Got Arrested! Now What?

Students Spring into New Investigations!

Students Spring into New Investigations!

In the past several weeks, CUP launched two Urban Investigations with students to explore social justice issues impacting New Yorkers.

CUP and Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas are collaborating with students from the Bronx School for Law, Government, and Justice to investigate parole and its impact on New Yorkers. What’s the difference between parole and probation? How many people are impacted by these systems and how could things be different? 

Over the next several weeks students will interview directly involved individuals, elected officials, public defenders, people working in the system, and members of their communities. Through collaborative filmmaking techniques, students will explore the issue and record what they learn to produce a video documentary. Stay tuned for more updates!

CUP and Teaching Artist Chaparro are collaborating with students from the High School for Climate Justice to explore the issue of flooding streets and subways. Why do NYC streets and subways stations flood?  How do these floods impact New Yorkers? How can we work towards a greener future? 

To explore this issue, students will interview stakeholders and members of their community, engage in collaborative artmaking, and create a final printed project that explains what they learned. Check out some images of students in action as they learned how to marble paper, make styrofoam prints, and map their neighborhood!

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

What You Need To Know About ACS

Making Policy Public

What You Need To Know About ACS

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!