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PowerSwitch Action: Popular Education and Budget Organizing

9/30/2022

 
​Budget processes are designed to be intimidating and minimize public ownership. Yet so many of our struggles rely on budgetary processes to succeed. Our team recently spent two days with PowerSwitch Action to help them incorporate popular education into their budget organizing work and build tools to demystify the budget process.
 
We started our work with PowerSwitch and their regional budget partners earlier in the year with our “Popular Education 101” training to orient the group toward creating liberatory community engagement and how to open and facilitate spaces for such engagement. Given how alienating the budget process is designed to be, grounding budget work in popular education is critical to facilitate a sense of community vision and ownership over the process.
 
At our recent two-day gathering, we built community with the PowerSwitch cohort (also as a means to drive deeper that skill-set) and developed concrete tools—including popular education codes—that they can to use in their home communities. 
 
Our approach to popular education, including the importance of ritual, play and (physical) movement, has insured that PowerSwitch is approaching budget work  as integral parts of popular education, especially when dealing with a potentially intimidating topic like budgets.

We look forward to supporting PowerSwitch partners as they implement these tools in their home communities!

​For more information on our Popular Education Approach or to inquire about Technical Assistance, connect with us.
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Movement Matters Quarterly Bulletin

9/12/2022

 
We spend a lot of our time at Movement Matters in communication with you, our peers and communities of change makers. In order to make some of that communication more regular (and more manageable), we launched our Movement Matters Bulletin this past Spring of 2022!

​This quarterly online newsletter combines learned lessons from the field, as well as a summary of our most interesting projects. With it, we hope to continue providing successful strategies and tools for cultural organizing, campaign development, base building, popular education, organizational development, coalition building, and innovative systems that can create more successful, sustainable, and scalable movement work.
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Stay updated on our upcoming Organizing Institute, Advanced Trainings, Learning and Action Circles, and Participatory Action Research projects. Check out opportunities for technical assistance. Learn more about the integration of somatic-based practices as well as expressive arts, theater, dance/movement, and rhythm into the member development process. And get some insights into the teachers, courses, projects, music, readings, and more that are inspiring our team. Sign-up below!

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