Roberto Ceballos, Community Organizer & Housing Activist
Eva Garcia interviews Roberto Garcia Ceballos, a local organizer involved in Boyle Height's efforts to develop a community land trust. Recorded at the Sounds of California: Boyle Heights Festival (October 2021).
Roberto García Ceballos is an organizer for the Fideicomiso Comuniatrio de Tierra Libre and an active member of the Community Power Collective. In his conversation with Eva, he shares about the history and vision behind FCTL, highlighting the progress that the organization has made in creating a community land trust. Roberto expresses his passion for organizing with his neighbors and the importance of building power and networks of mutual support with low-income tenants and workers in order to fight for community control of land and housing.