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Community Outreach and Intake Specialist, Communities Resist (Brooklyn, NY)
About this organization Communities Resist Inc., a project of Southside United HDFC (CoRe), seeks a tenant organizer to join a team combating gentrification, displacement, social disenfranchisement, and structural injustice through tenant organizing in North Brooklyn. CoRe is a legal services organization for housing and community justice steeped in the 50-year tradition of community lawyering in…
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NYC Community Organizer, Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice (Brooklyn, NY)
Katal works to strengthen the people, policies, institutions, and movements that advance health, equity, and justice for everyone. We envision a world where all communities have the resources and power to exercise self-determination and participate meaningfully in the democratic process. We launched in 2016 with three big, interrelated goals: building leadership and organizing capacity of neighborhood…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: March 2020
The New Labor Forum has a monthly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. The global video game industry – catering to 2.5 billion gamers across the world who annually purchase upwards of $152 billion…
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SLU Announces Two New Faculty Members
Dean Gregory Mantsios is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members of the SLU faculty: Joel Suarez, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies, and Samir Sonti, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies. Joel Suarez is coming to SLU from the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Visiting Scholar in the African and African Diaspora…
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