The Neighborhood Self-Defense Project is a coalition of Dallas neighbors, organizers, and urban planners reversing racist zoning through land use policy reform.
We lead grassroot campaigns and organize alongside frontline communities to build political power and enact social change to fight bad polluters and policies.
A community-led movement that has fought since 2021 for the removal of the GAF asphalt shingle plant from West Dallas to protect residents from air pollution and industrial health hazards.
A community-based scientific investigation in Dallas that researches the link between industrial air pollution and the health of residents in the historic Joppa neighborhood to advocate for environmental justice and policy change.
We are fighting to remove the GAF and TAMKO asphalt shingle factories to end decades of toxic emissions and reduce the heavy pollution burden on the West Dallas and Joppa communities.
