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Metropolitan Council on Housing Seeks Bi-Lingual Tenant Organizer (English/Spanish) (NYC)
Job description: The Metropolitan Council on Housing has been at the forefront of the housing movement for the past half century. We are working to solve New York’s housing crisis; an increasing number of people are becoming homeless due to soaring rents, neighborhoods are being displaced by a wave of gentrification, and our affordable housing…
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VOCAL-NY (Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders) Seeks Community Organizer
Organizational Background VOCAL-NY is a grassroots membership organization dedicated to building the power of low-income people affected by the drug war, mass incarceration, and HIV/AIDS to create healthy and just communities. Creating access to medical marijuana for all New Yorkers in need is an important goal of our work. This position is focused on engaging…
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Welcoming a New Class of Union Semester Students!
Welcome our spring 2016 NY Union Semester class! Andrew Brockwell Born and raised on Long Island, Andrew is a recently graduate of SUNY Old Westbury with a degree in Labor Relations. Ambitious and intelligent, he is joining the Union Semester program to gain insight and experience in working for a union and learn how, as…
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Democracy Spring Seeks Full-Time Organizers
Democracy Spring is now looking to hire a committed staff of full-time organizers. All staff positions begin immediately and will continue through the conclusion of the campaign in April. If you or anyone you know is ready to step up and devote yourself to an historic campaign of mass, strategic nonviolent action to save democracy…
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