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Performers stand together onstage at City Winery as a singer waves to the audience.
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December 12, 2022

Annual EOY Concert at City Winery 2022

The Action Lab's year-end celebration at City Winery was a night to remember...
Promotional graphic for the film “Primera” featuring protest imagery and event details.
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November 29, 2022

Freedom Forward Film Series: Primera

The screening of "Primera" at The Action Lab captivated the audience with its gripping portrayal of the 2019 uprising in Chile, a pivotal moment in the country's fight for democracy and justice...
Large group sits in a circle on a sunny lawn outside a historic brick building.
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November 21, 2022

Post-Midterm Convening: Countervailing Oligarchic Powers

A few days after the midterms, close to 50 organizers, policy advocates, lawyers, journalists, scholars and funders joined us at The Action Lab to discuss and debate ways to use policy & rules changes to build mass-membership organizations that are able to prevail against growing oligarchic power in the US...
Large group poses with raised fists in front of a building with “WOHNEN” on the wall.
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November 21, 2022

The Action Lab in Vienna

On a Sunday evening in October, I found myself on a plane to Vienna to join a delegation of people I did not know, spending a week in a city I had never been to, learning about social housing, something I knew almost nothing about...
Event poster shows an abandoned classroom for “The War Against Our Schools” screening.
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November 15, 2022

Freedom Forward Film Series: The War Against Our Schools

"The War Against Our Schools" delivered a poignant narrative at its screening, presented by filmmakers Mikey Cordero and Frances Medina...
Poster for “Sing Your Song” features a close-up of Harry Belafonte with screening details.
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November 1, 2022

Freedom Forward Film Series: Sing Your Song

The screening of "Sing Your Song" at The Action Lab was an evocative evening that celebrated the intersection of music and activism...
Performer reads from a book as a guitarist plays in a wooded outdoor path.
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November 1, 2022

First Annual Freedom Writers Workshop

In October The Action Lab held its inaugural Freedom Writers Songwriting Lab, where Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, TAL Board Member, and inaugural Bellafonte Fellow Aloe Blacc worked with a group of five high school students to write and produce music through the lens of social justice...
Facilitator leads a workshop as participants sit in a circle in a bright room with wood floors.
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September 12, 2022

A Successful First Cohort of the Summer Legal Academy

In August, The Action Lab, the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale, and the Initiative for Community Power at NYU hosted students from a variety of law schools across NYC at our inaugural Summer Academy on Law Organizing, and Power Building, which focused on law and political economy and organizing frameworks in the areas of housing justice and decarceration/abolition...
Large group poses with raised fists in front of a building with “WOHNEN” on the wall.
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September 5, 2022

Learning Delegation on Social Housing to Vienna

In partnership with the Housing Justice for All coalition, The Action Lab is bringing a delegation of tenant leaders, housing organizers, policy-makers, and elected officials to Vienna from October 16-23, 2022...
Colorful mural reads “La Lucha Continua” with raised fists, a masked figure, and movement imagery.
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April 11, 2022

Encuentro de Pueblos en Lucha Learning Delegation

In March and April of 2022, The Action Lab led a learning delegation of some of the most dynamic community and labor organizers in the US and Puerto Rico to build with left and base organizations in Chile around the shared international project of ending neoliberalism and constructing a world based in human dignity and liberation...
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