In today’s Economic Democracy Weekly, we examine how stories of liberation can advance economic justice. First, in our latest Truth to Power interview, Shanelle Matthews and Marzena Zukowska, the two lead editors of Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st Century Social Movements, reflect on what narrative change strategies can achieve—and how narrative change connects with movement-based and electoral organizing. We follow that with an excerpt from their book, outlining what a comprehensive narrative power-building framework looks like. Next, narrative practitioners, scholars, and creatives offer some pointers on how to use storytelling to advance justice. We close with an analysis of how community economic development can advance liberation.
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