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Mar 25, 2026

Organizing for Power: Social Movements & Municipal Governance

How do grassroots movements make policy change? And how do they hold elected officials accountable? This panel, the third in our ongoing LPE Night School series, turns to the relationship between mobilization and government administration, with a focus on New York City. Join Professor Marbré Stahley-Butts in conversation with movement organizers as we examine how…

Location: CUNY School of Law
Organizing for Power: Social Movements & Municipal Governance
Local Power: How to Make NYC More Equal

Local Power: How to Make NYC More Equal

11/19/2025 CUNY School of Law
Building on our recent event, LPE NYC Night School is examining how we can make real, lasting change in NYC. How do we contend with the outsized power of finance and real estate and build a world-class city for working-class New Yorkers? Join LPE NYC on November 19 at 6:30pm at CUNY Law School as…
How NYC Became So Unequal

How NYC Became So Unequal

10/23/2025 CUNY Law School
Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Watch LPE NYC ‘s event for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and Mason Williams, moderated by Christy Thornton, as they try to answer these questions and more by charting the history of the political economy of…
Making NYC Affordable: Housing

Making NYC Affordable: Housing

10/15/2025 New York Communities for Change
Please join LPE NYC for the first session in our series on what it really means to make NYC affordable, October 15, 6-8pm at New York Communities for Change (470 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn, NY) This first session will look at a topic on every New Yorker’s mind when it comes to affording to live in…
Carceral Political Economy in the Era of Late Mass Incarceration

Carceral Political Economy in the Era of Late Mass Incarceration

03/21/2025 The New School
The LPE Project is thrilled to be co-sponsoring, “Carceral Political Economy in the Era of Late Mass Incarceration” at the New School for Social Research, March 21-22, with The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. What is the political economy of “late” mass incarceration? How has the globally unparalleled US system of mass imprisonment remained…
LPE NYC Night School: Race, Space, and Displacement in NYC

LPE NYC Night School: Race, Space, and Displacement in NYC

03/17/2025 The New School (Room TBD)
The next session of the LPE Night School “Race, Space, and Displacement in NYC” will take place March 17 at 6:15pm at the New School. In a conversation facilitated by Tasleemah Tolu Lawal (NYU Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law), Alejo Rodriguez (Columbia Law/ BATTLE) and Shirley Lin (Brooklyn Law School) will discuss how institutions exploit race and immigration status as part of a divide-and-conquer…
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