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Joined February 2022
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For-profit landlords and developers won't provide the housing working families need.
Today, @AOC is introducing the Homes Act to build and preserve permanently affordable housing for all, based on our NYS Social Housing Development Authority bill.
nytimes.com/2024/09/18/opini…
Action Lab NY retweeted
🧵Today marks the launch of VOCAL-US (Voices of Community Activists & Leaders)
To build national power, we need a national voice. VOCAL-US gives our members & leaders an opportunity to speak on the most pressing issues - homelessness, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, & HIV.
Action Lab NY retweeted
“Hip-hop identified a culture that already existed but made kids, adolescents and barely-adults make sense to themselves.” Wesley Morris traces the art form from its South Bronx origins to all-encompassing triumph.
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Action Lab NY retweeted
We know you've been waiting, and it's almost that time again...
Our next (and last) LPE NYC Summer Happy Hour is NEXT THURSDAY at Ellington in the Park! Come have a drink (or a snack) and meet other people interested in LPE and fighting for a more just NYC!
ALT LPE NYC Summer Happy Hour, Aug 17th, 5:30 - 7:30, Ellington in the Park (105th & Riverside Dr)
Action Lab NY retweeted
Hip-Hop turns 50 on Aug. 11, and it seems that the whole world is celebrating. Here's a list of notable #HH50-related events happening this August ⬇️
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Don't forget to mark your calendars and *register* for the launch of Radical Acts of Justice a week from today (Aug 16) at 7:30pm at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn!
greenlightbookstore.com/even…
You won't want to miss the launch of @j_simonson's beautiful new book which recounts stories of people joining together in collective acts of resistance against the carceral state!
The launch( in convo w/ @orangebegum) is Aug 16 at 7:30pm in Brooklyn!
greenlightbookstore.com/even…
ALT Cover of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Mass Incarceration
Action Lab NY retweeted
Today, Tina Lee examines the deep roots in U.S. culture linking punishment with the provision of care for marginalized groups.
The latest installment in our symposium on *Torn Apart* and *Prosecuting Poverty.*
lpeproject.org/blog/the-deep…
Action Lab NY retweeted
You won't want to miss the launch of @j_simonson's beautiful new book which recounts stories of people joining together in collective acts of resistance against the carceral state!
The launch( in convo w/ @orangebegum) is Aug 16 at 7:30pm in Brooklyn!
greenlightbookstore.com/even…
ALT Cover of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Mass Incarceration
Action Lab NY retweeted
So we're clear, this is the beautiful, balloon-filled, multiracial, Black-&-brown-led march for CARE that NYPD decided to violently surround, threaten & arrest. @NYCMayor keeps choosing to criminalize, not care for New Yorkers.
📸@giligetz
#CareNotCuts #CareNotCriminalization
ALT Photo of a Black person in a beautiful printed mask holding a sign that says "Mayor Adams, Stop criminalizing us"
ALT Photo of two teenagers holding signs that says "fund student care not criminalization"
ALT photo of a large march outside. Green balloons are in the background, along with a pink painted banner that says "care not cuts"
ALT Photo of a JFREJ member with a child on her shoulders, holding a heart-shaped ballon, and a sign that says "NYPD does not equal care"
There was a massive cop presence at #CareNotCriminalization march tonight. Hyper-aggressive NYPD repeatedly shoved, ran scooters on folks & endangered marchers just crossing the street.
At least 4 unjusitifiably arrested, incl a JC member who was trying to help keep folks safe.
Action Lab NY retweeted
The tragic death of Jordan Neely illuminates the existence of two different legal systems: one for white people, and the other, a far more racist, classist, and punitive system, for Black and Latinx New Yorkers.
Read our full statement here: tinyurl.com/lasneely
Action Lab NY retweeted
Our system failed to provide the support that Jordan Neely needed.
We cannot become a city where someone experiencing a mental health crisis is choked to death on the subway.
I hope that this can be a wake up call for more compassion and common sense.
nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc…
Action Lab NY retweeted
Don't miss the next LPE NYC event cohosted w/ @ActionLabNY, the Initiative for Community Power & @LPE_Project !!
It has a 🤯 line-up of organizers, activists, & scholars thinking about the uses and limits of law as a 🔨 for transformative change!
lpeproject.org/events/tal-la…
Action Lab NY retweeted
#SocialHousing is helping keep people housed in other countries. What is it and how can it help solve NY’s housing crisis? Register to learn more: eventbrite.com/e/from-crisis…
Action Lab NY retweeted
Don't miss the next LPE NYC event organized w/@ActionLabNY & @LPE_Project on Law & Power Building April 7 (noon - 6pm)!!
It has a 🤯 line-up of organizers, activists, & scholars thinking about the uses and limits of law as a 🔨 for transformative change!
lpeproject.org/events/tal-la…
Action Lab NY retweeted
DON’T MISS IT: @LPE_Project, @ActionLabNY, and others are hosting a CONVENING ON LAW AND POWER BUILDING event @ NYU on April 7, feat.
@bsachs and more.
Register here: lpeproject.org/events/tal-la…
Action Lab NY retweeted
Calling all organizers, artists, and progressive change makers who need time to rest and recharge. Applications for our Take A Breath residency are due on March 10. forms.gle/d6LtTmZcrm2rU6nT9🧘🏾♀️
Action Lab NY retweeted
⚠️ 1Ls & 2Ls @ NYC law schools--WEDNESDAY is the deadline to apply to this year's Law & Organizing Academy! ⚠️
May 23 - 26: LPE, organizing, housing justice, decarceration & worker power
(co-hosted by @ActionLabNY & NYU Initiative for Community Power)
lpeproject.org/events/law-or…
