Join us for a panel discussion exploring one of the most poignant issues fueling the Trump administration

The First 100 Days of Authoritarian Gains Part 2: 

How MAGA Weaponizes Gender to Entrench Authoritarianism

Tuesday, June 3rd, 11am ET

In the first 100 days of the new administration we have witnessed a dizzying authoritarian escalation on virtually all fronts, including the authoritarian “patriarchal restoration” project that unifies the Christian Right and their secular authoritarian allies. Whether their motives are theological or transactional, the targets of their joint anti-gender campaigning are not just gender equality, trans rights, and reproductive rights but also racial, immigrant, economic, and climate justice as well as the possibility for democratic governance itself. 

Join PRA experts for a timely webinar on how the MAGA movement is weaponizing gender to entrench authoritarianism in the US, drawing on insights from our current issue of The Public Eye on the rise of anti-gender movements in the United States, and an examination of the first 100+ days of the new administration’s anti-gender offensive.

We will analyze the escalating authoritarian regime and the foundational threats it poses to our communities and social movements and uplift strategies to block these authoritarian advances and build towards the just and vibrant feminist, multiracial democracy that now more than ever, we continue to demand.

Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence (HOPE-PV) Training on Resisting Political Violence

Thursday, June 5th, 7:00 pm ET

PRA, together with the The Horizons Project, 22nd Century Initiative and core partners have developed the Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence (HOPE-PV) project, built on backfire principles that turn violence into a disadvantage for perpetrators by imposing social, political, and economic costs. These principles include public exposure, humanizing victims, coalition building, imposing costs, and amplifying facts. By mobilizing these principles, HOPE-PV makes political violence backfire, turning community outrage and collective action into powerful tools for social resilience and accountability. Get trained and get involved!

From Our Partner: Research Tools for Organizer Training by LittleSis

We are living in an age of corporate authoritarianism. Research into the relationships between powerful people, corporations, and institutions – aka power research – is essential if we want to know who we’re really up against in our fights for justice. This form of research helps us demystify the corporate playbook, find strategic targets and points of leverage, identify campaignable opportunities, reshape narratives to better inform the public, and find new ways that campaigns and movements are interconnected and can build power together for the long haul. In short, it not only helps us understand who we’re up against, it helps us see who is on our side and how to bring others into our work.

LittleSis is offering Research Tools for Organizers, a training curriculum designed to help you level up your toolkit and bring a new perspective to your campaigns by incorporating practical research techniques and a corporate power analysis into your campaign development.

Register here for the full series.

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