Public Event: How We Can Block, Bridge, and Build Our Democratic Future Together

Join us on March 17 at 5pm CET, 11am ET, 8am PT for a special learning session hosted by Julia Roig and Jarvis Williams of the Horizons Project.

This session is in response to the current moment in history that requires us to develop new organizing modalities where dialogue is complementary to other approaches. Civic actors have to come together to block the threats we are facing to our democratic values, we need to bridge across differences to foster broad-based movements with the widest participation, and we have to build together the future we want to live in our communities and our nation. As we seek to work towards belonging for all, protect democracy, and combat authoritarian trends, civic actors have to be and do several things at once: in this session, we will explore together the many paradoxes of being both in resistance mode while also being restorative. How do we stay future-oriented and hopeful while acknowledging and redressing past and current harms? In conversation together, we will interrogate these seeming tensions and investigate how we can wrestle in practice with these paradoxes, allowing us to move forward together with the broadest participation possible along many lines of difference.

Please note that this workshop is hosted by the Horizons Project, a partner of the Democracy & Belonging Forum. The Horizons Project is a US-based organization building relationships and connections between the social justice, peacebuilding, and democracy communities, with the goal of strengthening collective efforts to address systemic injustices, advance societal healing, and build a truly inclusive and pluralistic democracy.