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September 6, 2024

New Artist in Action Fellow: Alex Lin!

We are delighted to partner with the Working Theater to jointly support the inspiring playwright, Alex Lin...
Aerial view of a dense city grid with logos for Housing Justice for All and The Action Lab.
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September 6, 2024

Announcing a 55-leader Strong Learning Delegation to Barcelona

The delegation aims to deepen our understanding of tenant power and housing movements in Barcelona, focusing on how activists resist corporate landlords and fight for affordable social housing...
Collage promoting the Latin American Foto Festival with outdoor photo exhibits on fences.
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August 31, 2024

Repurposing of LAFF to BronxArtSpace

Facilitated by The Action Lab, The Latin American Foto Festival's stop in Hunts Point was a great success...
Illustrated poster depicts a community garden with text “Sembrando Resistencia, Los Jardines de Loisaida.”
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August 26, 2024

Sembrando Resistencia: Los Jardines de Loisaida

As part of our Liberation Summer programming, 'Sembrando Resistencia' celebrated Loisaida's Puerto Rican community gardens over three days in August...
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August 23, 2024

Art of Purpose Field Trip

On August 19th, thanks to a recommendation from our dear NYU fellow Aaliyah Weathers, we took our Art of Purpose Fellows to Monuments of Solidarity by LaToya Ruby Frazier at the MoMA...
Graphic shows a person standing in a field with mountains behind them and text reading “Angeles Solis.”
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August 1, 2024

Welcoming Angeles Solis!

We are delighted to welcome Angeles Solis as The Action Lab’s new Director of the Impact and Innovation Initiative! Formerly at Make the Road New York, Angeles helped co-found the Fund Excluded Workers Coalition and led major escalations to pass a $2...
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July 22, 2024

Power to Win Report

We are excited to share an important new report with you, created to help us address some of the key challenges facing the progressive movement today...
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July 20, 2024

Art of Purpose + Strategy School

From July 17-19, The Action Lab gathered our Art of Purpose and Strategy School cohorts...
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July 8, 2024

Liberation Summer Kick-Off Recap Video

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July 8, 2024

Advisory Board Spotlight: Minal Hajratawala joins The Action Lab’s Advisory Board

Minal Hajratwala (they/she) is the founder of the Unicorn Authors Club and co-founder of the Changemaker Authors Cohort, supporting movement leaders and activists to develop narrative-changing books...
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July 7, 2024

Introducing Artist in Action fellows Karina Hurtado & Julián Gómez Londoño!

Karina (Kari) Hurtado-Ocampo, they/all pronouns Kari is a cultural worker, multimedia artist and (screen)writer, tending to place-based and genre bending stories...
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July 6, 2024

Announcing a New Fellowship for Cultural Workers and Artists in our Community – Artists in Action!

The Artists in Action Fellowship at the Action Lab will cultivate the relationship between art and social justice by connecting artists to organizers and organizers to artists...
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