Our week was jam-packed with sessions led by Alliance Network senior leaders, Alliance staff, as well as experts in the field who helped equip conference attendees with new skills and brainstorm strategies to mobilize the youth vote. Our plenary speaker, communications strategist Anat Shenker-Osorio, taught us about the power of the Race Class Narrative - a proven messaging and organizing framework that weaves together race, class, and gender, advances our progressive worldview, and counters right-wing divide and conquer politics. We learned that as we witness the toxic and potent attacks on our freedoms across the country, it is critical for us to respond by setting our own agenda, rather than reinforcing our opposition’s frames.
As a network we spent the week: - Refreshing and preparing new strategies and tactics for getting out the youth vote;
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Building cross-network relationships and bonding as a team;
- Celebrating the Alliance’s ten-year anniversary and working together to envision the next ten years of youth organizing as a network.
Check out the full recap of our conference on the Alliance blog! |
