All over the world, false narratives and propaganda, including misinformation and disinformation campaigns, plague social movements organizing to wrest power from global elites. These campaigns often work to delegitimize the efforts of those challenging varying forms of racial, economic, and gendered oppression. For example, in the U.S., conservative policymakers are weaponizing old tropes that associate
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When I founded my nonprofit organization, the Counter Narrative Project (CNP), nearly eight years ago, I searched for information about leadership; I’ve always been a voracious reader, and when faced with a challenge I try to learn as much as possible. At the time, I was rereading the words of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.
Saru Jayaraman: There is as massive of a childcare exodus and shortage as there is a restaurant worker exodus and shortage—and women and people of color are collectively in this country saying, “Take your low wage job and shove it.” We’ve been monitoring [this]. A million workers have left the industry. Women and Black
This article is part of our weekly series—Narratives to Build Collective Economic Power—which NPQ is publishing in partnership with the national racial and economic justice nonprofit Common Future. In this series, the authors write about their economic justice work and how, in their work, they challenge conventional narratives and offer new ways of thinking about who can
