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Application Live! Turkey Global Delegation

February 6, 2026
The Action Lab is organizing a learning delegation to Istanbul, Turkey from April 12-18, 2025, bringing together 30 labor organizers, communication strategists, creators, strategic funders, and movement leaders to build power and challenge oligarchy.
Hands Off NYC Training

Hands Off NYC Training

January 31, 2026
The Solidarity Organizing Initiative team collaborated with Hands Off NYC to put on a massive training for close to a thousand New Yorkers on Saturday, January 31.
Child Care Advocacy Day

Child Care Advocacy Day

January 27, 2026
The Action Lab headed to Albany on January 27 for the Child Care Advocacy Day, led by our partners at the Empire State Campaign for Child Care, along with NY Communities for Change, Alliance for Quality Education, Early Childhood Educators On The Move, and more.
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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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Putting our vision into practice.
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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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Learning & Leadership

Building the capacity, insight, rigor and care our movements need.
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