Facebook Live event organized by the Center for Popular Democracy Learn more and to RSVP On June 2nd, The Action Lab co-sponsored Resisting Austerity: International lmpact and Solutions, a live streaming event organized by the Center for Popular Democracy. Communities around the world are resisting the negative impacts of austerity and profiteering at the hands […]
The Action lab is pleased to announced that we are accepting applications for two opportunities this summer: Take a Breath Residencies offer a space for individual movement organizers, artists, healers, and other leaders to rest, reflect, and cultivate practices that will nourish and strengthen their efforts to imagine and create a more just and equitable […]
Join our team! The Action Lab is seeking a Director for one or – ideally – two closely-connected core initiatives. The Director will lead and manage several emerging bodies of programmatic work: The Innovation Initiative catalyzes change by generating cross-discipline, cross-movement, cross-generation spaces of study, exploration, experimentation, and shared strategy in action among social justice […]
In her new book, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands, MacArthur “Genius” awardee and The Action Lab advisory board member Kelly Lytle Hernández upends entrenched ideas about the Mexican Revolution in her new book, putting front and center the role of the magonistas, the motley band of migrant workers, journalists, miners, and others who organized thousands […]
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 […]
The Urban Democracy Lab and the Initiative for Community Power at NYU Law collaborated with The Action Lab to present an in-person and virtual screening of We Still Here / Nos Tenemos. This documentary follows Mariangelie Ortiz, 24, and Jerriel “Yeyo” Cátala, 19, on a journey that transforms their lives as they rebuild their community […]
In February 2022, The Action Lab welcomed a diverse team of seasoned, energetic and talented new staff to fortify and propel our work of imagining and strategizing new ways forward. Marinieves Alba and Dmitri Holtzman join us as Directors of TAL’s four pillar initiatives. Mari brings her deep experience and leadership to execute, coordinate and […]
