“We hope to support our sector to grapple strategically with how we can build the caring infrastructure that we will need to not only weather future crises but also build power.”
Authors respond to Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks’ report “Pro-democracy Organizing Against Autocracy in the United States”, with next steps for preserving democracy.
This week on the show we’re exploring the challenges of building a progressive media ecosystem and mainstreaming movement narratives in existing corporate media. First, Adam Johnson, co-host of the Citations Needed podcast, joins Cayden to help us understand the current state of play in media and public relations work and why it’s against us by design.
Then Cayden talks with Hermelinda Cortés, Executive Director of ReFrame, about her organization's research on the ways narrative links traditional and social media to create the social “weather” conditions for our movements. They dig into ReFrame's post-election efforts to help build deeper, more powerful, and farther-reaching movement narratives.
Contentious debates rage among socialists over how to meet the MAGA moment—but three organizations have developed points of unity. They shared their perspectives in a webinar called "Marx Over MAGA: The Socialist Left in the Fight Against Fascism," which was hosted by Convergence and live-streamed on Oct. 16. The panel is now available for viewing.
