Updates
The Latest from The Action Lab
The Action Lab’s Evergreen Initiative: Newest Artists in Action Fellows
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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.
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All News and Updates
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June 13, 2025
Gathering Force at Blue Mountain Center
In May, our team had the privilege of spending lots of time upstate at our anchor partner Blue Mountain Center’s (BMC) retreat space.
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May 29, 2025
Confronting Plutocracy
As global power increasingly favors the ultra-wealthy, Argentina faces intensified challenges under Javier Milei's government, which prioritizes the rich at the expense of essential social protections. Sound familiar?
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May 12, 2025
National Day Without Childcare
On May 12th - National Day without Childcare - we joined parents and advocates to call for fully funding childcare in NYS.
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May 1, 2025
Historic May Day
The Action Lab actively celebrated International Workers' Day, aka May Day.
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April 26, 2025
Global Housing Day of Action
After months of helping to coordinate planning, The Action Lab joined thousands of organizers, activists, and community leaders to demand global housing justice on April 26th as part of the Global Housing Day of Action.
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April 19, 2025
Fist-Up Film Festival Pop-Up
In mid-April, we brought the Fist Up Film festival to New York City for a 2025 Pop-Up programmed by our Artists in Action fellows Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi and Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi.
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April 10, 2025
Daylong Political Education Training + Strategy School Launch
On April 10 we hosted the first in our cycle of Political Education Trainings at the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis.
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March 15, 2025
March to Stop the Cuts
Thousands of New Yorkers came together to say: No cuts to working people to fund tax breaks for billionaires
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February 24, 2025
Dismantling Racial Capitalism ft. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Steve Williams
On February 13th that traversed a diversity of topics from housing policy to wealth inequality to Marxist theories of the state.
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February 15, 2025
Standing Up for Immigrant Justice
We held the first three mass training sessions for signatories of the Solidarity Pledge on Feb. 10th, 12th, and 15th.
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February 8, 2025
Breaking Bread & Building Power
Worker Justice Agenda and The Action Lab hosted a brunch bringing together representatives from major trade unions and leading labor organizations.
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February 7, 2025
Shaping the Future of Organizing
In partnership with The Forge and the Initiative for Community Power, we released our Power to Win Report...
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