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recycling - data about individual impact vs. the climate rich people flying on private jets

web game (+1 on game-ifying): try to spend Bill Gates' money; examples of showing a million vs. a billion, how many times around the earth dollar bills adding up to a billion would go

green energy - always seen as good for the environment, but trans-national corps are displacing folks. Dark side of green energy is a new concept for folks

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In our work:

tenants - movable folks in housing justice

recreationists - from land-based justice and indigenous rights

In this moment:

immigrants who voted for Trump

my dad (puerto rican, voted for Trump but would have voted for Bernie)

people who are primarily opposed to the status quo

conspiracy-theory minded

economically impacted - people who feel priced out and who feel conned, fell for the scam

teachers outside of liberal bubbles - their work is changed so quickly by federal decisions (esp in rural communities, and like in Chicago teacher unions can mobilize)

Commonalities:

less demographics

these folks feel/ gut feel

unclear political analysis

existing in different media spaces, lots of misinfo

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​​Extremely homophobic and extremely transphobic ideology/ language

Billionaires are smarter and deserve to be in power

Immigrants are criminals

The right taking over the word woke and using it against us

"Woke" has gone too far. White people and men are being discriminated against

"Democrats don't care about every day people, and their ability to feed their families/get food on the table"

We can't win. It's every person for themself

we need pol(ice), some immigrants are criminals

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At Critical Resistance we are often pushing against the idea of "criminality," that some people are inherently "criminals." Or we're even pushing back against the idea of "crime" itself. (Not people are criminals, but people are criminalized by State

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Are there compelling stories that would resonate with these audiences?

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Are there compelling stories that would resonate with these audiences?

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Seeing some coverage on the possibilities in housing: renters winning ownership of their building

climbers hanging distress flags

visible acts of rebellion

maga voters whose families are being caught up in ICE detention and deportation

voters at republican town halls - anger and holding elected officials accountable

a story about ICE trying to separate a woman from her baby and how the community worked to stop it - imagery of keeping families together

What powerful imagery are we seeing?

people projecting things on the back of TESLA trucks

Luigi Mangione (not left or right, picked up by Joe Rogan)

Maori disruption in NZ parliament

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What kinds of things would we like to see work?

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What kinds of things would we like to see work?

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Between July and Oct, what would get people really fired up? What are ways to make this real?

We're being pushed around by billionaires (re: Fannie Lou Hamer's pig bank). Have conversations around local self sufficiency.

Wanting to see more stories around what the alternative is (not sure what alternatives are).

If government isn't the solution (both sides are bad) then what is?

Collective grief that people have and how grief is a time of relearning how to live with loss.

Helpful to show billionaires are NOT self made and flip the script. It's not hard work, it's exploitation. "Never meet your heroes." Deconstruct the illusion of how billionaires got to where they are.

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What do we already know about what to do? What has been tried and tested that can provide insights on how to move forward? What is working well?

What are the things we are working towards?

Once you are free from…, what are you free to?

"Remember the future" is a phrase i learned from a previous session today

Palestine will be free, and Palestine will never die

Not needing to rely on Billionares and we can support each other; using tariffs as hooks to uplift gardens, co-op communities, etc. that are gaining traction

our struggles, identities, are interconnected; it's a strategy of empathy

we are capable of cultivating community power and self-determination outside of permission

agency over our own lives and communities is possible (some may argue it's inevitable)

elders are able and deserve to pass the baton *

solidarity is not an option but necessary

Palestine will be free

we deserve not to only survive but to thrive

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What are the tools to move the narrative? 

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What are the tools to move the narrative? 

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What are the stories we can use to continue to delegitimize?

Owner of mobile home park, gives right of refusal to people in the mobile homes. Informing the folks in that park gave agency to that community. Small things people can do to be part of the fight on a local level.

Behavioral science & psychological inoculation used is battling manipulation. These powers are manipulating you - catches attention, builds resilience of othering. "This is what they're telling you, this is what's actually happening."

Not everyone has made the connection that the billionaires ARE the villains. Also not as clear cut to define a simple villain. Broad range of views but are maybe wrong on this one thing we're trying to change is hard to create narratives around.

Personal story & impact can really resonate with folks.

Maybe a change of heart story can be helpful in these cases.

Stories that complicate the idea of villainy. What does it mean to make a narrative a villain? How do you personify that?

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"white supremacy is not the shark but the water"

"at the end of my suffering, there was a door."

suffering is just inherent to our peoples, whatever we are navigating is because of our social failings, believing that something is wrong with us

"everything happens twice; once in imagination and in reality"

a lot of folks question themselves, don't be afraid of our imagination

"the role of the organizer, artist, culture worker, is to make the movement irresistable"

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Philanthropy- how get messaging out on abortion care network.

Messaging Guide. Exampled Shared Planned Parenthood

Make the message irresistible

Push back against us vs them.

Give grace, welcome people into this community

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Are there stories or images we're not seeing? Where are there gaps we can fill?

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Are there stories or images we're not seeing? Where are there gaps we can fill?

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military or police folks who are/will be defecting - the people who are tasked with implementing the horror

how can we make images and stories about how much wealthier the billionaires are getting - how they're enriching themselves right now? (opening to reach the broken status quo people)

example from LA county official who campaigned with billboards showing the city budget going all to policing. From MN.

how much of our resources are going to harm our communities

faces/individuals whose stories help people understand the bigger themes that are happening (immigrants, civil society workers, researchers)

maga defections

stories about farmers losing their farms

stories about small business owners, manufacturers, steel workers who are losing their jobs and industries

highlight how these policies are doing the opposite of what they promised to do

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What does word of mouth means today? Social media, podcast, twitch. What is the modern way we do that. Sometimes its not digital. ex: billboards, abortion pill parties. Billboards can be bold and stigma busting

Its a question of reach- algorithm can miss people

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Once you're free from.... , what are you free to? 

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Once you're free from.... , what are you free to? 

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(ponder on that pls)

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What are the new relationships we are making or strengthening? What are the collaborations we need to make? What institutions need to be leveraged or supported? 

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What are the new relationships we are making or strengthening? What are the collaborations we need to make? What institutions need to be leveraged or supported? 

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Always be on the look out for people who are in a different community than you, partner with people in the same ecosystem ex: repro justice. Strengthen relationships with people doing different types of work. When we partner as an ecosystem then we dont have to be everything

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Use more language that reaches stretch audiences—

Love one another. No asterisk. Join the caring community to build a world where we are all safe

No one is safe until everyone is safe. Encouraging people to broaden their circle of care; the more folks circled around you, the safer you are. How do we make people see themselves as a part of this caring circle? Taking care to avoid narratives that center a world that many people can’t begin to see themselves in because they’re so embedded in the dominant narrative—how do we invite them in?

a lot further to making your family safe in this world. The smaller your circle of care, the less you can depend on others showing up for you if you should be under attack.