Updates

Since our start, The Action Lab has been involved in supporting organizations doing critical work building power among tenants, fighting eviction, and imagining a world of new housing possibilities...

As part of The Action Lab’s deep and ongoing work to nurture the next generation of innovative movement lawyers, we were excited to host our second annual Law and Organizing Academy...

Our Convening on Law & Power Building brought together a dynamic group of academics, lawyers, and organizers deeply invested in progressive social change...

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...