Since its inception, our democracy has placed freedom of speech, due process, privacy, equal protection, and other fundamental rights at the center of our stated values and long ago enshrined them into law. However, the current regime has vilified broad swaths of our society, including immigrant and refugee communities, to justify actions including state-sanctioned disappearances and has moved to silence dissent, target civil society institutions, enter non-public spaces without proper warrants, and attack our communities’ freedoms through military action and misallocation of taxpayer dollars.

From the international to the local, groups have been grappling with how to shift hearts and minds away from a scarcity mindset rooted in the scapegoating of certain groups to one that embraces the human dignity of all members of our community. While recent polling has indicated some shifts in public opinion away from anti-immigrant sentiments, narrative experts understand that it will take sustained work over time to maintain and solidify those shifts. Beyond defending our neighborhoods from harsh enforcement and government overreach, groups need resources to share and amplify their vision of the thriving, multiracial democracy we want to build. Learn from experts about how they are putting theory into practice to respond to fear-based narratives and offer a vision of welcoming, belonging, and inclusion.

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