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Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation Seeks Food Justice Organizer
NEBHDCo is seeking a self-motivated and deeply committed individual to fill the position for a Food Justice Organizer (Organizer). The Organizer builds on the NEBHDCo’s Communities for Healthy Food (CfHF) Bed- Stuy programs to increase program participation and awareness, cultivate resident leaders, build relationships with partners, and raise consciousness and action on food justice issues…
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Unions, Workers, and the Democratic Party
The Murphy Institute is known for its public programming, bringing thinkers, leaders and policymakers together to discuss the issues vital to making change in our city and our world. This past September at Murphy, Randi Weingarten, President of American Federation of Teachers, and Larry Cohen of Making Progressive Politics Work and the former President of the Communications Workers…
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ALR Project Staff Visits Beijing, Shanghai & Chongqing
This post was originally featured at alrexchange.org. In October and November, in cooperation with Chinese colleagues, the ALR project staff – including Project Director Ruting Chen, Program Manager Jiajing Xu and Labor Extension Coordinator May Chen – visited several cities in China. This was the Project’s third trip to China in 2015, our busiest year of…
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Community Voice Heard — Gail Aska Policy Fellowship (Summer 2016)
Deadline for Application: February 17, 2016 Organization Description: Community Voices Heard (CVH) is a 20 year-old membership organization of low-income people working together to influence policy change around issues that impact low-income families’ lives. We were started as a welfare rights organization and have since evolved to work more broadly on economic justice issues. CVH uses a combination…
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