Episode 11: New York State Community Equity Agenda Pt. 1
Producers’ Note: This series of interviews was conducted before the COVID-19 outbreak. While we engage in mutual aid efforts and digital organizing, w...
Let's Be Real: A New Economy Project Podcast
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Let’s Be Real, A New Economy Project podcast, introduces you to the people, places, and organizations at the forefront of the movement for justice in NYC. Interviews with organizers on the ground will let you know what’s happening across the five boroughs, and how you can get involved. Follow us on iTunes or Soundcloud, and keep an eye on this page for podcast information and new episodes. And check our webpage at: http://www.neweconomynyc.org/letsbereal/
Episode 10: UPROSE
In this episode of Let’s Be Real, we speak with Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE. Founded in 1966, UPROSE is Brooklyn’s oldest Latin...
Episode 9: Housing Justice For All
In this episode of Let’s Be Real, we speak with Dominga Payano, a tenant organizer with Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. Dominga repres...
Episode 8: Neighbors Beyond Amazon
In this episode of Let’s Be Real, we speak with two organizers—Fahd Ahmed from DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving), and Sasha Wijeyeratne from CAAAV: Or...
Episode 7: Organizing for Community Control, a Conversation with Linda Levy
When the last remaining bank branch on the Lower East Side closed its doors in 1986, local activists took matters into their own hands and organized t...
New Yorkers Speak Out: Kenneth Lovell & Patrick Lovell
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Episode 6: We're Fed Up!
This episode, we take a look at a campaign that focuses on the Federal Reserve System and its impact on working people and people of color. We take yo...
Support our DACA Fund Today!
While the larger fight continues, we're grateful to be working with our network of partners to support DACA recipients in our communities. Please dona...
Episode 5: A Vision for Financial Justice in New York
This episode, we focus on the payday lending industry’s most recent attempt to legalize high-cost predatory lending in New York. We feature a conversa...
Episode 4: The Fight to #DefendDACA, with Walter Barrientos
Watch video-podcast here: https://youtu.be/ABgDCYOn-Xo “What’s happening is a major assault on immigrant communities that…will go down in the history ...