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CityViews: NYC Activists Must Take the Environmental Movement to the Next Level

David Baldwin | January 15, 2019

‘Environmental organizations in America have mostly tried to color within the lines, lines that the establishment has drawn. However, a new movement, though it rejects violence as a tactic, also does not play nice.’

The Global Squeeze

The Lessons NYC Activists Have for Those Fighting Displacement the World Over

Daniel Bates | May 4, 2018

Learn from defeat. Think big. Follow the money. And organize, organize, organize.

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Video: Does Art Matter to a Community Under Threat?

Melissa Rose Cooper | June 30, 2016

East New York has long faced problems like poverty, disinvestment and crime. Now its worries concern gentrification and displacement. In a neighborhood confronting so many different risks, what role can community artists play?

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Acting Out Their Demands, Advocates Take the Stage to Influence NYC Policy

Jarrett Lyons | May 26, 2016

Advocates using Theater of the Oppressed techniques are turning an empowerment tool developed in South America in the 1970s to homeless policy issues, with HUD and City Councilmembers in the audience.

Advocacy

Other Nabes and de Blasio Team Draw Lessons from East New York Rezoning Struggle

Abigail Savitch-Lew | April 19, 2016

As housing justice advocates across the city review the outcomes in East New York, many say the results attest to the power of community organizing, especially when stakeholders put forth detailed policy alternatives.

Advocacy

Artists Find a Role in NYC’s Debate About Police, Race and Violence

Nekoro Gomes | March 15, 2016

Art has been part of the response to the killing of Eric Garner and other incidents. But artists with a political message can face challenges finding space to show their work and reaching the audience that ought to see it.

Government

Occupy Sunset Park: Seeking Change in Many Languages

Zach Campbell | April 10, 2012

A long subway ride from the Lower Manhattan epicenter of the Occupy phenomenon, community activists in one Brooklyn neighborhood are trying to translate the movement’s goals into local action.

CITY WIRE: THE BLOG

NYC Groups Ask Feds To Scold Bank

Gena Mangiaratti | August 2, 2011

A coalition of economic advocacy groups wants a federal bank regulator to give JP Morgan Chase a poor grade for its compliance with an anti-redlining law.

Education

Opponents Mobilize Against New Harlem Charter School

Chris Giblin | July 16, 2010

Opponents of the Harlem Children’s Zone’s plans to open a school in the St. Nicholas Houses are organizing a grassroots effort aimed to prevent it.

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A Different Approach To Sex Education

Samantha Stark | July 13, 2010

Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini leads Brooklyn’s Midwood High School students in a fashion show where the outfits are made from condoms.

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