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Welcome to our story hub—a place where every voice, experience, and perspective comes together. Here, you’ll find all the stories we’ve shared across the site, from inspiring journeys and insightful interviews to behind-the-scenes moments and community highlights. Whether you’re looking to catch up, explore something new, or simply get inspired, this is your gateway to everything we’ve been talking about.

  • A Not-So-Happy Labor Day: NLF Highlights for September 4, 2017

    The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly 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. For the past half-century, Labor Day has more often than not presented the occasion for a sobering assessment of the

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  • The Arab-American Family Support Center Seeks Community Organizer (Brooklyn, NY)

    JOB TITLE:         Community Organizer FT/PT:                 FT LOCATION:        AAFSC Brooklyn Office                            150 Court Street, 3rd Floor                             Brooklyn, NY 11201 REPORTS TO: Deputy Executive Director ABOUT AAFSC: The Arab-American Family Support Center (AAFSC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-sectarian organization. Established in 1994, AAFSC is the first and largest Arabic-speaking, trauma-informed social service agency in New York City. AAFSC

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  • Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition Seeks Lead Community Organizer – Health Justice

    The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition is a 40-year old community organization that unites individuals and institutions to fight for better neighborhoods and for social, economic, environmental, and racial justice. The organization is membership-based, and uses direct action community organizing to address affordable housing, public health, education, immigrant rights, youth, voting rights, economic development and jobs issues, and to fight for broader policy change in these and other areas.   The NWBCCC is committed to

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  • Families for Freedom Seeks Organizer (NYC)

    Families for Freedom (FFF) is a multi-ethnic network of immigrants formed in New York City in 2002 to respond to the devastation on our families wrought by the increases in deportation after immigration laws were drastically overhauled in 1996. Those new laws replaced a largely discretionary system with mandatory detention and deportation. FFF has worked

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