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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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Community Organizer at VOCAL-NY
VOCAL-NY is a grassroots membership organization dedicated to building the power of low-income people affected by the drug war, mass incarceration, the HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C epidemics, and homelessness to create healthy and just communities. We accomplish this through community organizing, activism, and public policy advocacy. You can learn more about our work through our…
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Making History: Banning the Box & Labor in Queer America
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214013666″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”120″ iframe=”true” /] We’re living in historic times. Over the past few months, we’ve seen marriage equality become the law across the United States. More locally, we’ve seen the NYC Fair Chance Act fundamentally alter the economic opportunity landscape for those with criminal records, requiring public and private sector employers to…
