Allies

Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) has been fighting for a better environment in the San Diego/Tijuana region since 1980. EHC believes that clean air, clean land, clean water, and safe work places are inalienable rights. Border communities and workers are being deprived of these rights by their governments and transnational organizations.

EHC has established partnerships with the following non-governmental organizations and networks to achieve social and environmental justice in the U.S.-Mexico border region and build the movement for fair trade and global justice:

California Coalition for Fair Trade and Human Rights is the California affiliate of the Citizens Trade Campaign. Its goal is to change U.S. trade policy and promote economic justice, human rights, healthy communities, and a sound environment.
Contact: cacoalition@citizenstrade.org

Centro de Información para Trabajadoras y Trabajadores Asociación Civil – The Workers’ Information Center (CITTAC)
A non-governmental organization of women and men from Baja California that promotes, publicizes, supports and accompanies workers’ struggles – especially within the maquildora industry – to better their labor and living conditions, defend their human rights (especially those related to labor and gender), and create autonomous and democratic organizations.
Contact:
Calle Dolores #32 B
Fraccionamiento Dimenstein
Tijuana, B.C. México
664.622.4269 ( (from the U.S.: 011.52.664.622.4269), cittac@prodigy.net.mx
In the U.S.:
CITTAC
PMB 193
601 E. San Isidro Blvd. Suite 180
San Ysidro, CA 92173
619.216.0095, maquilatijuanasandiego@earthlink.net

Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras – Coalición Pro Justicia en las Maquiladoras
is an international, multi-sectoral coalition of religious, labor, environmental, community and women’s groups that strives, in a coordinated and multi-disciplinary way, for a better quality of life, sustainable development, social justice, human rights, and environmental stability focusing on maquiladora workers’ struggles.
Contact: 210.240.1084; http://www.coalitionforjustice.info/CJM_Website/New_Sites/CJM_WebPage/Home_Page.html

Colectiva Feminista Binacional – Binational Feminist Collective, is an independent organization associated with CITTAC to promote the human rights of female workers in the maquiladora industry with regard to gender issues.
Contact: 664.622.4269 (from the U.S.: 011.52.664.622.4269) or 664.104.1194
(from the U.S.: 011.52. 664.104.1194), cittac@prodigy.net.mx

The Colectivo Chilpancingo Pro Justicia Ambiental is Environmental Health Coalition’s community action team in Tijuana. It serves as a resource for the community, providing training, conducting community-based research, collaborating with allies, organizing and leading advocacy campaigns around social and environmental justice issues in Colonia Chilpancingo, Colonia Campestre Murúa, the larger Tijuana area, and working internationally on trade and globalization issues. The Colectivo staffs EHC’s office in Tijuana, which also houses the MAQUILAPOLIS film project. The Colectivo and EHC conduct Tijuana reality tours where participants learn about social and environmental justice issues and meet activists engaged in defending labor rights, public health, and the environment in the Tijuana border region.
Contact:
Avenida del Fuerte #15861
Colonia Campestre Murúa
Tijuana, Baja California, México CP 22455
664.647.7766 (from the U.S.: 011.52.664.647.7766), chcolectivo@prodigy.net.mx

Comité de Participación y Defensa Ciudadana, A.C., Tecate, Baja California. A very active community-based organization founded in 1991 that works for the preservation of natural resources, green areas and archeological sites, promotes pollution prevention and cleanup of toxic dumps and in defense of human rights, especially those of children. 
Contact: Victor Ontiveros, phone/fax: 011-51-66-54-37-14, 665.654.5933 (from the U.S. 011.52.665. 654.5933), ruiz_lolita@hotmail.com

Grassroots Global Justice - Alianza Popular por la Justicia Global (GGJ)
An alliance of U.S.-based grassroots groups organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people. GGJ recognizes the connections between local issues and the global context, and participates in the international movement for global justice.
Contact: Phone: 424.772.6410, michael@ggjalliance.org
FAX: 424.675.5419

The MAQUILAPOLIS film project brings together factory workers in Tijuana and community organizations in Mexico and the U.S., originally to collaborate on a film that depicts globalization through the eyes of the women who live on its leading edge. The factory workers who appear in the film were involved in every stage of production, from planning to shooting, from scripting to outreach. Five subsequently participated in an editing workshop developed by the film project and are qualified video editors. The film and the film project’s ongoing outreach activities are an organizing and advocacy tool for social and environmental justice. Contact: http://www.maquilapolis.com

La Mujer Obrera – The Woman Worker
A grassroots, non-profit organization consisting of Mexican immigrant women workers who struggle to defend their dignity and the right to develop themselves as women, community, and people.
Contact: 915.533.9710; 2000 Texas Avenue, El Paso, TX 799901; info@mujerobrera.org; http://www.mujerobrera.org/

Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental, A.C., Tijuana, Baja California. A non-profit organization that since 1991 has been dedicated to handling varied information on border environmental issues. Its goal is to promote public participation on environmental policy geared towards pollution prevention and conservation of natural resources in the U.S./Mexico border area.
Contact: Laura Durazo, telephone/fax: 011-52-66-30-0590, e-mail: pfea@mail.tij.cetys.mx

The San Diego Maquiladora Workers’ Solidarity Network ties together people in the nation’s largest border town who want to build an alliance between working people – especially maquiladora workers - across the border. The SDMWSN also organizes Maquiladora Tours in conjunction with CITTAC and the Colectiva Feminista Binacional.
Contact:
CITTAC
PMB 193
601 E. San Isidro Blv. Suite 180
San Ysidro, CA 92173
619.385.3634 or 619.216.0095, maquilatijuanasandiego@earthlink.net

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) is a diverse grassroots coalition that engages in research, advocacy, and organizing around the environmental and human health problems caused by the rapid growth of the high-tech electronics industry. The International Campaign for Responsible Technology, a project initiated by SVTC, unites diverse organizations to promote broader participation in the design and development of sustainable technologies.
Contact:
760 N. First Street
San Jose , CA 95112
408.287.6707, svtc@svtc.org
Fax 408.287.6771
http://svtc.igc.org/