Organizers working to build a strategy in this moment should consider the following narratives:

1) Say Education Is a Public Good
2) Organize Everywhere
3) The Case of Trans Rights

🔗 Read our full guidance on the Compact and strategies for organizing in this moment: lnkd.in/exmtkem5

The Compact seeks to remake universities in the image of the MAGA movement: obedient, culturally monolithic, inward-looking, patriarchal, and illiberal. By conditioning federal funding on compliance, it invites schools to participate in their own undoing.

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🧠 Southern Documentary Fund Production Grant Info Session 1
Jul 29, 2025 01:00 PM ET
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Strategic Partnerships Manager: Freedom Together [New York City]: job-boards.greenhouse.io/thejpbfounda...

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Program Officer - Democracy, Gender, & Racial Justice: Freedom Together [NYC]: job-boards.greenhouse.io/thejpbfounda...

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Created by Hardy Merriman in collaboration with the 22nd Century Initiative and the The Horizons Project, HOPE offers principles and practical steps for interrupting political violence while holding fast to our values.

📖 Read the full guide: endpoliticalviolence.org/guide

Harnessing Our Power to End (HOPE) Political Violence is a guide that responds with care, strategy, and a vision rooted in belonging. The HOPE Guide is for ppl who recognize the dire stakes that political violence creates and want to work together nonviolently to protect and uphold democracy.

✍️Bolt Cutters Cohort Application
A six-week program for authors who have been incarcerated, jailed, or detained by ICE
Apply by July 15. The program will run from September 15 to October 31, 2025
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Opportunities:

🧠 Asian American Disinfo Table's teach-in series
The Modern Impact of Historical Disinformation
Tuesday June 24 at 6-7pm ET
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✍️Bolt Cutters Cohort Info Session
June 17, 5:00 pm PT
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💼 Managing Director of Communications; Advancement Project [Hybrid, Washington D.C.]
Salary Range: $166,500.00 and $195,500.00
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To see more of C4C’s organizing work and their important victories, read our full case study: narrativeinitiative.org/resource/rur...

The project brings together rural and statewide grassroots organizations who are building coalitions across multiple differences, and achieving important wins.

Audel Ramirez, the Central WA Organizer at C4C, highlights the struggles rural and urban students share when pursuing higher education.

In our blog, we offer:

🔸 Narrative guidelines for engaging with Asian American communities
🔸 Strategy tips for storytellers and organizers
🔸 Examples of on-the-ground narrative work

📖 Read the full post + join the work of building a bigger “we”: www.narrativeinitiative.org/blog-narrati...

Myths don’t disappear on their own. We have to organize around something bigger.

We’re calling for a shift toward a Model Majority—a narrative rooted in equity, interdependence, and solidarity and reflects the power of Asian American communities. One that insists our futures are tied together.