A Resource for Organizations and Movements Navigating Authoritarian Conditions

Solidarity Stances:

In today’s political climate, where authoritarian threats are escalating and cutting across legal, cultural, economic and social arenas, many organizations and networks are grappling with hard questions:

  • When do we speak out publicly?

  • How do we express solidarity while also preserving our organizational and community safety?

  • What conditions could support us in taking bolder stances and actions rooted in transformative solidarity practices?

This resource offers seven strategic stances that organizations and networks can use in times of heightened chaos and crisis to build deeper, more aligned forms of solidarity while taking into consideration their unique circumstances, constraints, and possibilities.

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The seven Solidarity Stances invite us to move with intention and connection in order to

  • Protect one another

  • Disrupt authoritarian narratives and systems

  • Strengthen movement infrastructure

  • Deepen our collective capacity to come together - rather than defaulting to defensive postures or act in isolation