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Building Movement Project on Instagram: ""Who are your people? What are you choosing? What is your role and your assignment?" 

🎧 Tune in for SOLIDARITY BEYOND THE ELECTIONS, a special podcast episode of Solidarity Is This with our BMP colleague Adaku Utah (@soularbliss) in conversation with Margaret Faliano (@illuminative), Mary Hooks (@mvmnt4blklives), and Rachel Cheek (@abortionfunds) about the necessary and ongoing work we need to cultivate a democratic society beyond the ballot box. This episode is a lightly edited recording of our November 2024 State of Solidarity.

💜 Graphic notes by Cori Nakamura Lin @onibaba.studio

Listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts or visit the link in our bio to listen, read the transcript, and find related resources."

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258 likes, 0 comments - buildingmovementproject on November 26, 2024: ""Who are your people? What are you choosing? What is your role and your assignment?" 

🎧 Tune in for SOLIDARITY BEYOND THE ELECTIONS, a special podcast episode of Solidarity Is This with our BMP colleague Adaku Utah (@soularbliss) in conversation with Margaret Faliano (@illuminative), Mary Hooks (@mvmnt4blklives), and Rachel Cheek (@abortionfunds) about the necessary and ongoing work we need to cultivate a democratic society beyond the ballot box. This episode is a lightly edited recording of our November 2024 State of Solidarity.

💜 Graphic notes by Cori Nakamura Lin @onibaba.studio

Listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts or visit the link in our bio to listen, read the transcript, and find related resources.". 

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Indigenous Futures Survey - Illuminative

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Indian Country’s largest survey created by Native peoples, for Native peoples.

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Native Organizers Alliance: exit poll data and what to know

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Native Organizers Alliance: exit poll data and what to know

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Native Organizers Alliance on Instagram: "⚠️ Be critical about data you see and share online! ⚠️

The National Election Pool, which consists of ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC, conducted an exit poll that you might have seen floating around social media. Unfortunately the data being shared is likely an inaccurate representation of our Native communities and perspectives. And we know that misrepresentations of who we are as Native peoples can be dangerous for our communities. 

Flaws in exit poll data collection methods such as small sample sizes, a lack of representation from people who live on reservations, and self-identification are just a few of the common missteps to collecting data on Indian Country. 

📣 One exit poll of 229 self-identified Native voters doesn’t tell the whole story of the 2024 election, especially in regards to the Native Vote."

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372 likes, 4 comments - nativeorganizersalliance on November 13, 2024: "⚠️ Be critical about data you see and share online! ⚠️

The National Election Pool, which consists of ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC, conducted an exit poll that you might have seen floating around social media. Unfortunately the data being shared is likely an inaccurate representation of our Native communities and perspectives. And we know that misrepresentations of who we are as Native peoples can be dangerous for our communities. 

Flaws in exit poll data collection methods such as small sample sizes, a lack of representation from people who live on reservations, and self-identification are just a few of the common missteps to collecting data on Indian Country. 

📣 One exit poll of 229 self-identified Native voters doesn’t tell the whole story of the 2024 election, especially in regards to the Native Vote.". 

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The Solidarity Is This Podcast explores the principles of transformative solidarity and provides examples of what solidarity looks like in action.
In each episode, you'll hear from activists, artists, faith leaders, and organizers throughout our social change ecosystem who are working for equity, justice, and liberation. Providing a glimpse into the many faces of transformative solidarity, we hope this podcast will give you inspiration, ideas, and support for your own journey with solidarity practice.

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Solidarity Is This Podcast - Solidarity Is

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Solidarity. It's become a buzzword. But what is solidarity? And how do we go about practicing solidarity, as activists, as organizations, as people who care deeply about building inclusive schools, campuses, workplaces and neighborhoods?

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“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis At Haymarket, we believe that books are crucial tools in struggles against racism, imperialism, and capitalism—and for a better world. That’s why we’ve decided to make TEN key ebooks free to download: join us in reading these indispensable works of analysis, history, and strategy. Wherever each of us live, work, and are in community: the time is now to build power and fight back, together. And, don’t miss out! Until Friday, November 15th, ALL Haymarket Ebooks are 80% Off (that means they’re available for just $2 each)!

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If you've engaged with the social change ecosystem map, don't miss out on a new workbook from Deepa called Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection.

Social Change Now is a practical guide for those at every stage of their individual and organizational journeys towards justice, equity and solidarity. It introduces an ecosystems framework that includes ten roles that many of us play in service of our social change values. But the book goes further. It contains detailed descriptions and real-world examples, reflection prompts (with room to write responses), and accessible tips that can immediately be put into action. This book is a resource that will accompany individuals and organizations not only in times of crisis, but throughout their lifelong social change journeys to build connected communities and equitable systems in our world. Over the past three years, people and organizations around the world have used the social change ecosystem framework to respond to the pandemic, express solidarity during the uprisings against anti-Black racism, and support multiracial coalitions struggling for reproductive rights, immigrant and refugee protections, and climate justice.

Social Change Now is a collaboration between Deepa Iyer, Thick Press , an experimental publishing practice, and , a design studio founded by Asian American women.

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The Social Change Map - Social Change Now by Deepa Iyer

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Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection by Deepa Iyer is a practical guide for those on their journey towards justice, equity and solidarity.

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Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition A historic consortium of sovereign tribal nations united in the effort to conserve the Bears Ears cultural landscape. Learn More Our People Who We Are Coalition Leadership Coalition Staff

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Our mission is to build power for Native peoples by amplifying contemporary Native voices, stories and issues to advance justice, equity and self-determination.

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What We Do - National Network of Abortion Funds

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Learn what NNAF believes and how we support member abortion funds, abortion access, and Reproductive Justice.

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WHO WE ARE

We are Abolitionist:

We believe that prisons, police and all other institutions that inflict violence on Black people must be abolished and replaced by institutions that value and affirm the flourishing of Black lives.

We believe in centering the experiences and leadership of the most marginalized Black people, including but not limited to those who are trans and queer, women and femmes, currently and formerly incarcerated, immigrants, disabled, working class, and poor.

We believe in transformation and a radical realignment of power:

The current systems we live inside of need to be radically transformed, which includes a realignment of global power. We are creating a proactive, movement-based vision instead of a reactionary one.

We build kinship with one another:

We draw from political lessons, grow in our leadership, and expanding our base to build a stronger movement.

We are anti-capitalist:

We believe and understand that Black people will never achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system.

Our 5 year plan

Project 2024: Black Power Rising

Our movement and Black communities overwhelmingly are not currently in a position to set agendas to scale, control the institutions that affect our lives, or create mechanisms to mitigate harm. This assessment should not be interpreted as a failure of our social movements, but it does expose a critical gap. Over the next 5 years, we have created a popular strategy rooted in transformative goals that can impact the millions of Black people looking for direction and leadership in this moment. Chiefly, Black governance and ultimately positioning our communities to set agendas sits at the heart of M4BL Project 2024: Black Power Rising.

WHAT WE DO

The Movement for Black Lives is an ecosystem of individuals and organizations creating a shared vision and policy agenda to win rights, recognition, and resources for Black people. In doing so, the movement makes it possible for us, and therefore everyone, to live healthy and fruitful lives.

M4BL TABLES

Our movement is driven by leadership anchored to 6 tables: Policy, Organizing/BaseBuilding, Electoral Justice, The Rising Majority, Culture and Resource

Our movement's structure is decentralized yet cohesive. Each table is part of this multi-functional, highly adaptive hub, and is responsible for a different strategy and programming that feeds into our larger long-term visions.

Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice articulates M4BLs vision of a fundamentally different world, while also making policy recommendations to address the material conditions of Black people.

ORGANIZING & BASE BUILDING

This squad moves local organizing, builds national campaigns such as the Black Mama's Bail Out, Say Her Name and Freedom Summer. We will invest in Black governance, communities, and grassroots organizing in communities across the South and rest of the US. Equipping emerging and seasoned movement leaders with the skills, resources, and tools necessary to nurture and strengthen Black-led spaces in service of self-determination, innovation, creation, leadership, and joy.

ELECTORAL JUSTICE PROJECT

The Electoral Justice Project marshals a cross-issue, transnational Black electoral justice movement by building a network of local organizers and partners.

BUILDING A POWERFUL LEFT FOR RADICAL DEMOCRACY

Building a Powerful Left for Radical Democracy. A multiracial coalition that seeks to develop a collective strategy and shared practice that will involve labor, youth, abolition, immigrant rights, climate justice, feminist, anti-war/anti-imperialist, and economic justice forces in order to amplify our collective power and to build alignment across our movements.

We are organizers, artists, communicators, musicians, storytellers and cultural workers who collectively build creative initiatives and innovative tools to help build a world in which ALL Black people can thrive. We bolster offline movement building through cultural innovations, narrative and performance means and build our own digital tools and platforms that protect the safety and security of our people.

LEARN MORE

JOIN THE MOVEMENT

Stay informed about our upcoming virtual events.

DONATE

If you are called to join us, have an opportunity for aligned funding streams, or wish to make a personal gift, please contact [email protected] to connect.
The Movement for Black Lives is a fiscally sponsored 501c3 at the Alliance for Global Justice.

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We are Abolitionist: We believe that prisons, police and all other institutions that inflict violence on Black people must be abolished and replaced by institutions that value and affirm the flourishing of Black lives.

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Tools that will enable you to join the movement of movements working to amplify a new narrative about Native peoples in media, pop culture, k-12 education, and other critical sectors.

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You are critical to our movement. Accurate information, authentic representation, and narrative disruption are essential to ending racism, bias, and discrimination against Native peoples. We need Indian Country and allies to work together and advocate for change.

Below you will find tools that will enable you to join the movement of movements working to amplify a new narrative about Native peoples in media, pop culture, k-12 education, and other critical sectors.

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You are critical to our movement. Accurate information, authentic representation, and narrative disruption are essential to ending racism, bias, and discrimination against Native peoples. We need Indian Country and allies to work together and advocate for change.

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Individual abortion funds operate differently and provide various kinds of support. Use the search filter on this page to identify the abortion fund that can help you or the folks in your community.

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How to Find the Right Fund for You

Individual abortion funds operate differently and provide various kinds of support. Use the search filter on this page to identify the abortion fund that can help you or the folks in your community.

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How to Find the Right Fund for You Individual abortion funds operate differently and provide various kinds of support. Use the search filter on this page to identify the abortion fund that can help you or the folks in your community.

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Black life and dignity require Black political will and power. Despite constant exploitation and perpetual oppression, Black people have bravely and brilliantly been a driving force pushing toward collective liberation. In recent years, we have taken to the streets, launched massive campaigns, and impacted elections, but our elected leaders have failed to address the legitimate […]

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Mary Hooks is a Black, lesbian, feminist, mother and Field Secretary on the field team for the Movement for Black Lives. Mary is the former co-director of Southerners on New Ground (SONG). Growing up in a family that migrated from Mississippi to the Midwest, Mary’s commitment to liberation is rooted in her experiences and the impacts of the War on Drugs on her community. Mary has devoted her life to transformative organizing work and has been at the forefront of struggles that impact the lives of Black and brown queer and trans people in the South, including the campaign to end cash bail, defund the police, re-imagine public safety, and develop new organizers.

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Margaret Faliano (she/her) is a member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Montana and grew up an urban Native in the Pacific Northwest. She currently resides on the traditional homelands of the Mohican and Munsee Lenape peoples in the NYC metropolitan area and graduated from the University of Oregon Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Business Administration, B.S. in International Studies, and a Certificate in Global Business.

Margaret is the Associate Director of Advocacy & Engagement at IllumiNative: a Native women-led nonprofit that builds power for Native peoples by amplifying contemporary Native stories, voices, and issues to advance justice, equity, and self-determination on a national scale. Margaret’s trainings and relational networking initiative utilize research, narrative and culture change strategies, movement-building, and organizing to disrupt the invisibility of Native peoples, re-educate Americans, and mobilize public support for key Native issues. As an urban Native, Margaret has always yearned to see accurate and contemporary Indigenous representation in society, especially in politics, media,

and fashion.

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Rachel Cheek (they/any) is an organizer, writer, and healer based in El Paso, TX. They are the Organizing Manager in the Movement Building Department at the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF). They love being able to help funds hone their organizing skills, build care and safety into their plans, and broaden the amount of people excited about repro organizing.

Rachel is a former board member West Fund, where they served in various roles over the course of six years. In their community, they love to organize and skill-share around community safety and healing practices. They are also an animal parent, consumer of cheesy 80s media, and newly converted gym rat.

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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, raised in Festac, Nigeria, grounded in her legacy of organizers, farmers and healers, Adaku harnesses her seasoned skills as a political strategist, holistic healer, transformative facilitator, somatics coach and ritual artist as an act of love and commitment to her community. She enjoys co-cultivating social justice leaders and organizations to be more strategic, sustainable, and impactful. For over twenty years, their work has centered on movements for radical social change, with a focus on gender, reproductive, race, youth, and healing justice. They currently work on staff with the Building Movement Project where they supports movement building organizations to tackle the most significant social issues of our times by developing research, creating tools and trainings, providing guidance, and facilitating networks for transformative change.

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A program of the Building Movement Project, Solidarity Is generates tools, trainings, and narratives to facilitate transformative solidarity practices for movement building organizations and activists who are invested in meaningful social change.

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Activating Nonprofits, Fueling Change - Building Movement Project

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We bring a critical, values-based & inclusive perspective to shape ideas and practices in the nonprofit sector. Our passion is advancing ideas that matter.

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Constructing Solidarity Narratives in Challenging Times (and more resources for organizations)

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Constructing Solidarity Narratives in Challenging Times (and more resources for organizations)

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Solidarity Resources for Organizations

Often during movement moments or societal crises, organizations may contemplate drafting and releasing Solidarity Statements to convey their support of the demands and perspectives of partner groups and affected community members.

If you're in that position, we invite you to work with BMP's resources:

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Solidarity Resources for Organizations Often during movement moments or societal crises, organizations may contemplate drafting and releasing Solidarity Statements to convey their support of the demands and perspectives of partner groups and affected community members. If you're in that position, we invite you to work with BMP's resources:

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Creating and Sustaining an Ecosystem of Well-Being

Over the last several months, in conversations, interviews, and workshops with nonprofit and movement leaders, organizers, and community members, we have been hearing a general, collective agreement that folks are exhausted. Even as people continue to do their work, they are asking how to sustain their commitment in the midst of fatigue, vicarious or direct trauma, and hopelessness surrounding world events.

While there's no one easy answer to that question, here at Building Movement Project and SolidarityIs, we have been offering a tool called An Ecosystem of Well-Being to partner groups in trainings and workshops.

Building on the labor and wisdom of Tricia Hersey and the Nap Ministry, adrienne maree brown and pleasure activism, BATJC's pod mapping, the framework of healing justice (and particularly this piece by Yashna Maya Padamsee on communities of care and organizations for liberation), and much more, we offer this tool as a starting point to identify how we're already supporting each other in this work, and to experiment with new ideas and practices to sustain our commitments.

Using the Tool

The Ecosystem of Well-Being helps us visualize and create well-being as an interdependent practice, in relationship to those around us. The tool can be used to identify ways to sustain ourselves in social change work, not just as individuals, but on organizational and movement levels as well.

In the image above, we've included some examples of what individual, organizational, and community practices of well-being might look like. Consider these as well as the more detailed examples provided below, then download and fill out your own version of the tool. As an individual, you could use this tool by yourself to build self-awareness, or with a peer group or mentor. Members who are part of an organization or coalition could utilize this tool as part of a staff meeting or retreat.

If you work through this tool with colleagues, movement partners, peers, or in other spaces you are part of, let us know how it goes! Send us a message at solidarityis@buildingmovement.org or tag us at @BldngMovement or @Solidarity_Is on Twitter.

Cultivating Well-Being as a Practice
Individual practices
Individual well-being is about what's right for us - and recognizing that what's right for us won't look the same from day to day, or even moment to moment. Individual well-being could look like making space for creativity, joy, or connection in our work and beyond. Sometimes it might be about setting and articulating boundaries about what we're able to take on, and asking for support from others to maintain those boundaries. Maybe it's realizing we need help, asking for it - and receiving it. It could mean identifying the most effective roles for us to play (for more on that, work with the Social Change Ecosystem Map, available here).
Organizational practices
When it comes to well-being practices from an organizational perspective, we hear often from participants in workshops that both workplace policy and culture can create a more sustainable pace and work environment. In BMP's report on the impact of COVID-19 and the uprisings, we outlined the ways in which nonprofits are changing workplace culture by reducing workdays and/or workweeks, creating more flexibility around expectations of staff and leave/caregiving policies, and providing resources for staff well-being.

For example, if there's a "no meetings on Fridays" policy, how might that flexibility or spaciousness be incorporated into the organization in other places or times? Could organizations that hold meetings after hours with staff and community members who are parents integrate childcare support? In some organizations, robust benefits packages provide material support for both physical and mental health, whereas in less-resourced groups, staff can form well-being committees, which work to assess and create organizational practices.

Such committees might create infrastructure for the organization to provide space for staff during "movement moments" or community crises, or a professional development plan that creates opportunities for staff to connect with healing justice practitioners. Of course, well-being committees must still be resourced with time and support from leadership, and not merely expected as an add-on to existing workloads.
Communities of support
From mentors and coaches to peer support and skill shares, cultivating various communities of support throughout and beyond our "formal" work means we have multiple spaces we can tap into for support - and multiple opportunities to show up and support those around us, too. Communities of support could be created via virtual meet-ups among people with similar roles in movement spaces or even between movement elders and those entering the sector.

Nearly three years after the pandemic began, what can we keep stitching together? What are ways we can create more care not just for ourselves, but for those around us - particularly if we have the power and resources to implement well-being and sustainability practices within our work? We hope that the Ecosystem of Wellbeing can be one tool to address these pressing inquiries. The work towards a more just world will continue, even in the face of continued, collective crises, which is why we must make time to cultivate care and well-being practices to sustain ourselves, and the generations to come, for the long haul.

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The 2024 Elections and Beyond: Fortifying Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Ecosystems toolkit from the Building Movement Project offers a series of frameworks and accompanying worksheets for individuals, organizations, and networks to:

Clarify values and identify roles that benefit the broader ecosystem

Gather the necessary analysis, partnerships, and tools from our movement "pantry"

Consider reasons why organizations may want to engage in rapid response efforts

Explore stances such as Defend, Disrupt, Demand, Document, Discuss, Design, and Deepen

Fortify our individual and organizational well-being for the months ahead

The toolkit contains frameworks and exercises that the Building Movement Project has utilized in trainings, workshops, and election scenario planning. We hope these offerings can be useful within your organizations and networks.

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2024 Elections and Beyond Toolkit BMP - Solidarity Is

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Resources for nonprofit and movement organizations and individuals doing electoral organizing in 2024

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Transformative Solidarity Principles | Tools & Resources — Solidarity Is

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When we look to the social change and movement work past and present, we can see the principles of transformative solidarity in action.