Updates
The Latest from The Action Lab

Free Tax Prep Program
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March 6, 2026
Anchor partner New York Communities Organizing Fund (NYCOFI) continues its free tax preparation program, helping New Yorkers access key tax credits such as the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit. Services run weekends from March 1 through April 13.
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All News and Updates
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November 1, 2022
Freedom Forward Film Series: Sing Your Song
The screening of "Sing Your Song" at The Action Lab was an evocative evening that celebrated the intersection of music and activism...
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November 1, 2022
First Annual Freedom Writers Workshop
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...
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September 12, 2022
A Successful First Cohort of the Summer Legal Academy
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...
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September 5, 2022
Learning Delegation on Social Housing to Vienna
In partnership with the Housing Justice for All coalition, The Action Lab is bringing a delegation of tenant leaders, housing organizers, policy-makers, and elected officials to Vienna from October 16-23, 2022...
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April 11, 2022
Encuentro de Pueblos en Lucha Learning Delegation
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 liberation...
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