We’re a community of journalists, activists, changemakers, and advocates that believe deeply in the power of coalitions and collective liberation. Our events aim to share resources and provide spaces for people to talk about their experiences of injustice and resistance efforts. Check out our upcoming events below.

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Killing the Story: Journalists Speak in Palestine in U.S. Newsrooms

Join us for a conversation on the anniversary of October 7th, Killing the Story, moderated by Palestinian journalist Laura Albast as we discuss the experiences of journalists and media professionals covering the genocide in Gaza while working in U.S. newsrooms. In this hour, we'll explore patterns of media bias, the double standard that exists for Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim journalists, pressures from the Israel lobby, and alternative paths for coverage.

In September, Prism published a monthslong investigation by Albast in partnership with Visualizing Palestine, which reveals and illustrates what happens to stories about Palestine in U.S. newsrooms, from inception to reporting, editing, and publication. You can read the full reporting here.

All proceeds from this event were donated to Gaza Journalist Fund.

No More Bad News: Tools for Media Literacy During Election Season

How can politically-conscious people meaningfully engage with the onslaught of propaganda presented as factual news during an election year?

We’re in another election year—one that feels eerily similar to the exceptionally painful 2020 presidential election. The same two candidates, their campaigns, and by extension mainstream media, are forcing voters into an impossible moral battle of deciding between “the lesser of two evils.”

What underlying biases in traffic-driving headlines manufacture the perspectives we adopt? How should we read the news in this media-saturated age so that we pause and disavow—rather than consent to—political structures that suppress and pacify us? How can we sync our learnings to the movements we become part of?

Teaching Truths: Educators Speak on Justice & Liberation in the Classroom

Teaching Truths: Educators speak on justice and liberation in the classroom is a conversation between educators teaching with the Zinn Education Project and Prism. This event sheds light on the resilience and courage of educators that are committed to teaching the full spectrum of people’s history is caught in classrooms. From Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA+ history, to the climate crisis, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the history of social movements, dedicated educators are keeping these essential stories alive in classrooms around the country.

Class Action: The State of Education Advocacy in Florida

Amid a barrage of book bans, curriculum changes, and legislation cracking down on classroom conversation in the form of bills like ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ Florida schools have become the testing ground for alarming policies targeting crucial discussion about identity, history, sexuality, and more.

Together, we’ll unpack the language and legalities of Florida’s education policies, the cultivation of the antagonistic relationship with teachers’ unions and school district administrations, the role(s) of parents in the censorship of classroom materials, and student-led resistance efforts. We’re getting to the heart of the issue: Florida’s repressive educational experiments for marginalized students, families, and teachers have broader impacts both locally and nationally, which can teach us a great deal as we head into a heated election season.

"We Owe You Nothing": A Conversation on Debt Abolition

Amid resuming student loan payments and raising the debt ceiling, people are left to bear the undue burden of crushing debt. The false idea surrounding debt is that it is a personal failing. But debt, at its core, is a tool of power and financial extraction.

In this conversation, we’ll be exploring four different kinds of major debt: student loan debt, medical debt, carceral debt, and renters’ debt. Our goal is to shift the narrative around debt and break the false idea that “easy” money management advice and a bootstrap mentality are the only solutions to financial freedom.

Adoptees for Reproductive Justice panel

No more salvation narratives. No more narratives of gratitude. No more framing adoption as a “win-win.” No more white saviors. In this live conversation with adoptees for reproductive justice, we will question adoption as a system that is inextricably linked to family separations, settler colonialism, and white supremacy.

Adoption justice is reproductive justice. Time and time again, the solution offered to anti-abortion efforts is adoption, yet we fail to center adoptees whose lived experiences and areas of expertise touch every injustice and systemic problem our movements face—including reproductive health, racial & immigration justice, climate disaster, education, and abolition.

Beyond the Ballot: Everyday Strategies for Collective Liberation

Decolonization. Reparations. Climate justice. Queer liberation.

What does it mean to be part of political movements that don’t make it on the ballot? The United States is in a state of political emergency, and for too long, popular narratives have sold the ballot box as the solution to every injustice. But although voting is a vital tool for political engagement, it’s not the only way to fight for social justice.