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Cooper Square Committee Seeks Housing Organizer (NYC)
Well-known tenant rights organization seeks a motivated Organizer to create tenant associations to fight harassment and displacement on the Lower East Side. Participate in city-wide housing campaigns to strengthen housing code enforcement, strengthen the rent laws and promote affordable housing. Job Description Job involves an ability to work with an energetic, supportive organizing team, requires…
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SumOfUs Seeks Campaigner/Senior Campaigner, based in the US
SumOfUs is expanding our US Campaigns team. If you’ve got an itch to tell the story of corporate power run amok, ideas about how to take on multinational corporations with $2500 and a gorilla suit, and you’re hungry to experiment with new technology to create and scale campaigns for the 21st century, then this is…
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RPA Seeks Director, Public Engagement (NYC)
Regional Plan Association is seeking a public engagement specialist to generate awareness and advocate for RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan with a wide range of constituents in the civic, community-based, business and government sectors. In 2017, RPA will release a regional plan for the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan area – the fourth in the region’s history.…
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Friedrichs Case, Unions and the Public Sector
By Penny Lewis The Friedrichs case argued before the Supreme Court yesterday will decide the near-term fate of public sector unions in the United States. In this and the next blog post I am mulling over the roots and implications of this case; in the next I want to consider what it means for us here…
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