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This is not normal. It’s time for action.
Dear Friend, What’s happening right now in Washington, DC is not normal. Two weeks into the new Trump Administration, and the country faces a serious constitutional crisis. Trump is violating laws…
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Katal’s Annual Stewardship Letter: 2024 in Review – and Gearing Up for the New Year
By Lorenzo Jones and gabriel sayegh In reflecting over this past year and looking toward the next, we keep coming back to this quote from the civil rights and labor organizer Grace Lee Boggs: “What…
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Sustaining Donor Drive: Email Fun
Below is a fundraising email we sent out as a part of our Sustaining Donor Drive: Subject: [Silly photos and emojis inside] Dear Friend, As we approach the end of the year, we are reflecting on all of…
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25 WTO Protest Facts @ 25
For a downloadable version of this article, in PDF form, click here. 25 @ 2525 Fun or Otherwise Lesser-Known Facts to Mark the 25th Anniversary of the WTO Protests in Seattle By gabriel sayeghDecember…
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Giving Tuesday: Email Fun
Below is a fundraising email we sent on Giving Tuesday: Subject: A silly email to brighten your day Dear Friend, We hope you are having a good day. At Katal, we are pushing on and looking toward the e…
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25 years since “Battle in Seattle”
It’s been 25 years since a massive public uprising in the streets of Seattle led to the shutdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) “Millenium Round” Ministerial Conference. That week became…
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Whose Story of Seattle? A Protest History Misses the Point
In 1999, a massive public uprising in the streets of Seattle led to the shutdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) “Millenium Round” Ministerial Conference. That week became a historic turning…
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Jeffrion Aubry: A Champion for Justice in New York
Queens Daily Eagle
Jeffrion Aubry: A Champion for Justice in New York After more than 30 years as a state legislator, the assemblyman is retiring – and leaving a remarkable legacy. by gabriel sayegh Note: A shorter ve…
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Organizing, Food, and Justice
by Lorenzo Jones 6.20.2024 I feel like there is this throwback, distinct trajectory for community organizing that requires us to revamp our development of organizers, like having to develop organizer…
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Katal Op-Ed in The Amsterdam News: Mayor Adams Talks About Closing Rikers While Working to Keep it Open
New York Amsterdam News
Mayor Adams Talks About Closing Rikers While Working to Keep it Open by gabriel sayegh Thursday, June 6, 2024 Last month, news broke that the city’s plan to close the Rikers Island jail complex is f…
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Katal Op-ed in the NY Daily News: NYS must boost its prison watchdog
New York Daily News
NY Daily News By Yonah Zeitz 6/2/2024 With time running out in the 2024 New York State legislative session, lawmakers in Albany should act to address the crisis on Rikers and other jails across the st…
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Katal 2023 Stewardship Letter
January 8, 2024 Friends, For Katal, entering 2024 feels a bit like being shot out of a cannon. The challenges ahead are daunting. The world is going through convulsions. And for many people in the Uni…
