Updates

The Action Lab was proud to co-sponsor Beyond the Block: Voices from Sing Sing, a project of Hudson Link, co-developed with a group of their students at Sing Sing Correctional Facility...

Our “From Crisis to Horizon: Fighting for Social Housing” event provided a comprehensive examination of the ongoing housing crisis, engaging participants both in-person and via Zoom across two days of insightful panels...

The conversation with Amanda Cea and Victor Chanfreau, pivotal figures in the Chilean student protests that led to a national uprising in 2019, alongside NYC student activists, was a profound event that captivated all who attended...

At "HipHop vs Neoliberalism," Rebel Diaz, alongside Amanda Cea and Victor Chanfreau, leaders in the Chilean student movement, shared their profound insights...

The Action Lab's year-end celebration at City Winery was a night to remember...

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...

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...

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...

"The War Against Our Schools" delivered a poignant narrative at its screening, presented by filmmakers Mikey Cordero and Frances Medina...

The screening of "Sing Your Song" at The Action Lab was an evocative evening that celebrated the intersection of music and activism...

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...

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...