by Nada Khader | Feb 12, 2025 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building, Racial Justice
The 50+ member organizations of the NYS Community Equity Agenda, representing hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers statewide, made the following statement responding to the Trump Administration’s assault on the Consumer and Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)—and...
by Nada Khader | Feb 8, 2025 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building, Racial Justice
Filmmaker Alain Martin frames the forgotten history of his country’s brutal occupation at the hands of the United States as an epistolary that finds him penning a letter to his deceased grandfather about the subject. He confesses to Brunel Martin, the grandfather in...
by Nada Khader | Feb 8, 2025 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Environmental and Food Justice, Militarism and Foreign Policy, Movement Building
Toolkit for the Movement: Guides for community defense Recent years have seen our community and movement partners on the frontlines wracked by COVID-19, ongoing systemic anti-Black racism, accelerating climate disasters, and growing authoritarian repression, which...
by Nada Khader | Feb 8, 2025 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Movement Building, Progressive News Network
Special Discount Tickets Available for the 2025 Athena Film Festival Our friends at Athena Film Festival just dropped their 2025 lineup, and we are PUMPED! Taking place during Women’s History Month from March 6 – 9, 2025 at NYC’s Barnard College, Athena...
by Nada Khader | Feb 3, 2025 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Movement Building, Progressive News Network
OPINIONCOMMENTARYGUEST ESSAYS Affordability solution: a Long Island public bank A bill under consideration would help tackle the affordability crisis by creating a framework for municipalities to charter public banks.Credit: Getty Images/Fly View Productions...
by Nada Khader | Jan 30, 2025 | Blogs, Criminal Justice, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Movement Building, Racial Justice
The documentary The Strike will premiere on PBS Independent Lens on Monday, February 3rd (next week!). It will be available for free streaming on the PBS YouTube channel starting on February 3rd, and it will be available on PBS Independent Lens, PBS YouTube, and PBS...