About Us
A program of the Building Movement Project, Solidarity Is generates tools, trainings, and narratives to facilitate transformative solidarity practices for movement building organizations and activists who are invested in meaningful social change.
Our Story
The idea for Solidarity Is came from the Solidarity Summits, a gathering of local and national movement leaders brought together by the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the Proteus Fund’s RISE Together Fund. The cohort of leaders spent five years building their individual and organizational relationships through the framework of transformative solidarity. They gathered in places with rich histories of multiracial solidarity including Nashville, New Orleans, San Diego, and Albuquerque to learn from local leaders and to build narratives and strategies to address issues ranging from immigration and Islamophobia to anti-Black racism and violations at the border.
As a result of the Solidarity Summits, cohort members have experimented with solidarity practices in different contexts from coordinating resistance activities against the enforcement of bans, walls, and raids in the United States to connecting their community members together to bearing witness during times of community trauma.
Our Roles
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Builder
Creating and sharing tools on transformative soidarity with movement leaders through workshops, teach-ins, curricula, and more.
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Storyteller
Uplifting solidarity narratives and frameworks through the Solidarity Is This. podcast, writing, and social media
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Weaver
Facilitate movement exchanges between communities to build shared solidarity analyses, narratives, and relationships.