Updates
The Latest from The Action Lab

SALSACTIVISM — March 21
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March 7, 2026
SALSACTIVISM returns on March 21 in Astoria, bringing together community, music, and organizing. The evening will feature Salsa en Vinilos, live sets from Fabio Puentes y Su Tremendo Lío, and guest speakers Jeannette García and Yhamir Chabur.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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