Solidarity-Based Organizing in the Digital Age: Building Power from the Bottom-Up (Part 1 of 2)

Community organizers around the world are seeking to re-ignite public support for besieged democratic institutions and to strengthen solidarity within divided societies. While navigating the complexity created by disinformation, authoritarian politics, and the emergence of new existential threats, like the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis, organizers pull from a variety of tactics and strategies that leverage both the digital world and traditional power-building. In this workshop, two organizers at the frontlines of the pro-democracy struggle in Brazil will share learnings from their 10+ years of experience working with young activists and community leaders as well as elected officials. Through a mix of hand-on exercises and reflections on activism and social change theory, they will lead Princeton students into an exploration of their own collective power and ability to influence the various communities they are a part of.

Meet the facilitator:
Miguel Lago, co-founder of NOSSAS and Executive Director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies, Brazil’s premier think and do-tank for public health policy. Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and Columbia University. Alessandra Orofino, Executive Director of NOSSAS, an organization that catalyzes solidarity-based and democratic activism in Brazil, and showrunner of Greg News, a weekly comedy news show on HBO Latin America.

What to Expect:
Double workshop (meets twice for 2-hour sessions, 4 total hours of meeting time)

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Co-hosted with: Pace Center for Civic Engagement

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