Liberation Summer | June, July, August 2026
June 17, 2026
Through performances, workshops, and community gatherings across New York City, Liberation Summer 2026 brings people together through music, storytelling, art, and collective resistance.
Sparking Change.
We bring organizers, artists, and leaders together to learn, to create, and to build a just future.
Our current moment demands action—
driven by imagination, connection, rigor and strategic impact. Discover the people, organization and activities moving our work forward.
The Action Lab’s Evergreen Initiative | Newest Artists in Action Fellows
May 11, 2026
Two new Artists in Action Fellows join the Evergreen Initiative, bringing podcast storytelling and visual art into campaigns for justice and community power.
The Tenant Power Act | Introduced in New York State
May 11, 2026
The Action Lab and anchor partners helped introduce the Tenant Power Act, landmark legislation to strengthen tenant organizing and accountability across New York State.
No One Is Safe | Film Premiere
April 7, 2026
The documentary *No One Is Safe* premiered on March 22, highlighting the impacts of immigration enforcement on vulnerable communities and underscoring the need for collective action and immigrant justice.
The Street Is Ours | Cuba: The Pulse
June 21, 2026
The Street Is Ours. This summer, we celebrate 25 years of Terraza 7 — one of New York City's most vital cultural spaces — right on the block where it all began.
BROOKLYN MUNDIAL | World Cup | CYPRESS HILLS - Jap vs Swe & Tur vs USA
June 25, 2026
Catch the epic showdown in Cypress Hills: Jap vs Swe & Tur vs USA. Screenings + Cultural live performances!
SALSACTIVISM
June 27, 2026
Celebrate Puerto Rican culture, community, and resistance through poetry, conversation, salsa, timba, and dancing. Join us for an evening of music, reflection, and collective joy as we continue honoring Bori Month.
Common at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
August 28, 2026
The Action Lab partners with BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! for a free public performance by Common and special guests, honoring Harry Belafonte’s legacy of justice, culture, and collective liberation.
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.
Our Initiatives
Putting our vision into practice.
Action & Innovation
Bold campaigns and new ways of working to move people, shift power and win.
Arts & Culture
Creativity to power community, connection, and social change.
Learning & Leadership
Building the capacity, insight, rigor and care our movements need.
Learn about our initiatives and programming
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