Celebrating Copaganda Clapback🎉

MediaJustice Comrades,

Copaganda Clapback is a project supporting abolitionist movements in sowing narrative power and building relationships between journalists and organizers across the country. Co-created alongside journalists, independent media makers, organizers, and researchers, Copaganda Clapback filled the gaps of transforming what we know about media and policing into actionable learnings for our movement. Today we are releasing a video celebrating this work highlighting the people who shaped it:

Brandi Collins-Dexter, Research Fellow with the Shorenstein Center on Media, Media, Politics, and Public Policy
Nadia Sharaawi, independent media maker, journalist, and organizer working as a Production Coordinator with Line Break Media
Rumsha Sajid, National Field Organizer with MediaJustice

Celebrating Copaganda Clapback (2024)

Here are some facts about what Copaganda Clapback accomplished since May 2023:

Copaganda Clapback is a resource that reached our MediaJustice community globally and was downloaded over 500 times.

MediaJustice’s Field Organizer Rumsha Sajid facilitated over 300 people with Copaganda Clapback through attendance at our national webinars, trainings, and in-person workshops.

MediaJustice co-authored the curriculum with 20 journalists, organizers, youth radio hosts, researchers, and media makers across the country from various organizations, including:

Line Break Media
Generation Justice
CreatTV San Jose
18 Million Rising
Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy

Interviewed 11 members of the MediaJustice Network in 2022 to shape MediaJustice’s approach to disinformation and policing.

Debunked 9 common copaganda narratives as both narrative and action.

Field Organizer Rumsha Sajid interviewed Hamid Khan of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition on their copwatch tool called Watch the Watchers in a webinar hosted by MayFirst Movement Technology.

In addition to national webinars, we hosted 7 workshops virtually and in-person in 3 cities:

San Jose, CA
Albuquerque, NM
Minneapolis, MN

Thank you to our collaborators across the field and movement in shaping Copaganda Clapback. We are honored to have listened to your stories. We are grateful to share the strategies our communities are using across the country in fighting back against copaganda.

In solidarity,
Rumsha Sajid
National Organizer, MediaJustice

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