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Dennis Leroy Kingalee’s Play Takes on New Life

January 13, 2026
The Kangalee Arts Ensemble, led by our Advisory Board member and Artists in Action fellow Dennis Leroy Kangalee, was recently awarded an artist initiative grant from the Venturous Theater Fund for: My Dying City Vol. II (The Social Justice Suicide Hour).
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Solidarity Organizing Initiative

January 2, 2026
As we head into the new year, we are welcoming the Solidarity Organizing Initiative staff to The Action Lab staff team to take this work to the next level.
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Pro-Immigrant Mural Unveiled in Bushwick

December 22, 2025
In the heart of Bushwick, community members, organizers, artists, and elected officials gathered to unveil a towering, multi-story pro-immigrant mural.
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Homegrown Screening and “Understanding Conservatism” Workshop

February 5, 2026

On February 5, we will be cohosting a screening of the powerful documentary Homegrown at NYU, preceded by an “Understanding Conservatism” Workshop led by the filmmakers.

Our Mission

The Action Lab is a strategy center for social movements that sparks political and personal liberation.
We provide rigorous and joyful spaces for organizers, leaders and artists to learn, to create and to strengthen our capacity to win.
We strive to build a powerful culture that lifts us out of the immediate and enables us to envision and realize a just future.

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Action & Innovation

Bold campaigns and new ways of working to move people, shift power and win.
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Arts & Culture

Creativity to power community, connection, and social change.
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Building the capacity, insight, rigor and care our movements need.
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