Education
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Through Education, the Radical Communicators Network community keeps each other sharp and prepared through regular training, reading, practice, and peer learning.
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“In 2016 when RadComms started, communications workers across disparate movements came together to organize against a common opposition. RadComms existed to build better solidarity and peer-to-peer support to accomplish larger goals. As an issue-agnostic network, I believe this gap was important to fill in order to build a strong infrastructure across movements. We’re continuing to address this gap today as members come together to share resources and build community.”
Phuong Pham, RadComms member and Leadership Team member
RadSessions started in the early years of RadComms as an effort for us to learn relevant information from people doing the work, get up to speed on framing and messaging about issues that intersect, and innovate on strategies to make the world more just. In the past, we have had sessions that included the nuances of hope in narrative strategy, protest narratives, earned media and media ethics, podcasting for beginners, and a three-part training on the fundamentals of being a nonprofit consultant.
In 2025, RadComms and our community published Liberation Stories, an anthology of essays from movement and communications leaders sharing what they’ve learned from experience about building narrative power from 2000 – 2024. That same year, RadSchool began as a curriculum guiding a cohort of emerging movement and communications workers and leaders through the learnings from the book, with the essayists from Liberation Stories guiding us through chapters.
“Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow’s world is yours to build.”
Yuri Kochiyama at an Asian American Convocation (1995)