Updates

The Action Lab concluded its “Power in Solidarity” training series, equipping participants with organizing fundamentals, storytelling tools, and strategies to build trust, mobilize communities, and defend immigrants and democracy through collective action.

In collaboration with Cultura Pa’lante, The Action Lab hosted the first SALSACTIVISM gathering of 2026 in Sunnyside, Queens—an evening of poetry, salsa, and vibrant community building.

Hundreds of labor and community organizers gathered for a May Day Solidarity School to build shared analysis, strengthen organizing skills, and prepare coordinated strategies leading up to May Day 2026.

The Action Lab is excited to bring our SALSACTIVISMseries into the new year!

The Action Lab launches the Small Business United campaign following the introduction of the Small Business Rent Stabilization Act (A5568/S8319). Organizers are inviting small businesses to join the campaign’s advocacy and organizing efforts.

Participants in a political education session discussing technology, corporate data power, and organizing strategy.

Loisaida Center supports community leaders, artists, and creators at the intersection of culture, media, and technology.

The Action Lab is organizing a learning delegation to Istanbul, Turkey from April 12-18, 2025, bringing together 30 labor organizers, communication strategists, creators, strategic funders, and movement leaders to build power and challenge oligarchy.

A film screening, discussion, and workshop at NYU examined the contemporary conservative movement.

The Solidarity Organizing Initiative team collaborated with Hands Off NYC to put on a massive training for close to a thousand New Yorkers on Saturday, January 31.

The Action Lab headed to Albany on January 27 for the Child Care Advocacy Day, led by our partners at the Empire State Campaign for Child Care, along with NY Communities for Change, Alliance for Quality Education, Early Childhood Educators On The Move, and more.

Just two weeks ago, immigration enforcement agents killed VA nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota.