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Hey, Alliance Fam!
Last week, youth organizers from across the Alliance Network gathered at the Palmer House in downtown Chicago for our network-wide convening, Alliance X. Bringing nearly 200 youth organizers together, Alliance X was a celebration of the Alliance Network successfully building youth power for the last 10 years, and an opportunity to learn from one another as well as civic engagement and organizational health experts from across the country. Youth organizers left the conference with deepened relationships in the Alliance Network and renewed energy to build youth power in their states.
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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:
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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;
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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!
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Since 2013, the Alliance Network has led major victories on economic justice, restorative justice, climate change, democracy reform, and more. Let’s continue creating a world where our democracy works for everyone and where all people – no matter where they come from, what they look like, or how they identify – live in loving, safe, and thriving communities.
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Carmel Pryor
Vice President of Communications and Engagement
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