The 22nd Century Conference: Forging a People-Powered Democracy gathers the pro-democracy movement to weave relationships, sharpen strategies, and equip people with skills and resources to effectively block the rise of authoritarianism while advancing pro-democracy strategies and campaigns.
The 22nd Century Conference will bring us together.
The 22nd Century Conference welcomes frontline activists and organizers, researchers, communicators, network weavers, narrative strategists, academics, elected officials, and donors who are confronting U.S. authoritarianism and white nationalism. The conference creates space for networking and organizing, as we build capacity, infrastructure, and resilience for our work ahead.
We can’t win... unless we forge a people-powered democracy and out-compete authoritarians.
The 22nd Century Conference will bring us together.
The 22nd Century Conference will bring together frontline activists and organizers, researchers, communicators, network weavers, narrative strategists, academics, elected officials, and donors concerned with rising authoritarianism and white nationalism. It will serve as a vehicle for networking, organizing, and building capacity, infrastructure, and resilience for the work ahead.
Sponsorship
We need to raise a minimum of $500K to convene more than 1,200 local, national, and international leaders and organizers.
Your generosity will help us to provide opportunities for skills-building, scenario planning, and strategizing that will have a lasting impact beyond our convening as we fortify our foundation.
Various sponsorship levels and perks available. Reach out to Elicia Gonzales, Conference Manager for details!
Exhibit With Us
You’ve got important insights and information to share with 1,000+ attendees at the 22nd Century Conference: Forging a People-Powered Democracy.
As a conference Exhibitor, you can engage in personal AND political conversations with friends and colleagues. Need signatures on a petition? Building up your newsletter list? Want to have a deep chat about a strategy and idea for the pro-democracy movement? All this and more at your Exhibit table!
Exhibits will be located in a high-traffic area of the conference space. For $350, Exhibitors will have: one conference registration; a 6’X30” covered table; two chairs; plenty of space to interact with attendees, and a listing in the conference app on Whova..
If you need other services for your Exhibit table, such as an electricity drop, banner placement, or package delivery, you will be financially responsible for those extras.
Come on in! Exhibit with us.
Call for Artists
22CI seeks an artist to design the look for our conference materials and merchandise.
- A $500 award.
- Complimentary conference registration.
- Thanks and an introduction at the OpeningPlenary session on Friday, June 20.
- Thanked and listed in Whova conferenceapp, website, and social media.
A PRO-DEMOCRACY MAJORITY
The 22nd Century Conference aligns the pro-democracy movement to build strong majority pro-democracy coalitions to effectively block the authoritarian agenda while strengthening the pro-democracy majority’s generative, distributive, and institutional power.
The conference features plenary sessions followed by breakout sessions where we go deeper into the plenary themes with training, analysis, and strategy.
The conference will explore key paradigm shifts facing the pro-democracy movement, including:
What does it mean, and what does it take, to construct majority coalitions for people-powered democracy?
How do we develop campaigns designed explicitly to divide the right and recruit communities and constituencies to pro-democracy majority coalitions?
How can we react to the actions of the authoritarian right as opportunities to build power?
How can we revive civic life and local experiences of people-powered democracy?
How can we use strategic polarization to reshape the landscape and move constituencies toward our majority coalitions?
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THE OPPORTUNITY
An enduring, reparative, and people-powered democracy
Rising authoritarianism presents an opportunity for those of us building an enduring, reparative, and people-powered democracy; our equal and opposite reaction to rising authoritarianism could quicken the pace of building a pro-democracy majority.
Our power is needed…
The frontlines of authoritarianism are in every community–school boards, local and state governments, sheriffs, local news, local elections—
...everywhere
—as well as in intentionally divisive national and state narrative and policy fights waged by authoritarians against LGBTQ+ communities, the integrity of democratic elections, public schools and teachers, disabled people, workers and organized labor, immigrants, secularism, and beyond.
POWER & SOLIDARITY
Attendees from many different communities – frontline organizers and activists, nonprofit leaders and staff, union organizers and members, educators, donors, elected and government officials, and more – can expect to:
Deepen a shared analysis of authoritarians and sharpen strategic organizing and narrative frameworks that can defeat and out-compete them with a long-term agenda for change.
Expand your network and relationships in order to build stronger majority coalitions for democracy at home.
Get inspired, deepen your vision of a reparative, people-powered democracy, and generate the excitement you need to energize your work on the frontlines of the pro-democracy movement.
Find new organizing and strategic partners that will take your pro-democracy work to the next level.
Demonstrate the power and solidarity of the pro-democracy movement.
STAY WITH US!
We know you have choices of accommodations while you are attending the 22nd Century Conference.
We hope you will stay with us! Once you register for the conference, you will receive an email with hotel and other conference information. Please allow a few weeks for this information to be sent. Please email us with any questions at conference@22ci.org.
TRAVEL WITH US!
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You may also call Conferences and Events® at 1.800.328.1111* Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. (EST) and refer to Meeting Event Code NY3QY
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The 22nd Century Initiative facilitates widespread opposition to authoritarian movements and ideas, and resources organizations and networks to build an enduring, reparative, people-powered democracy.
22CI’s long term vision is to achieve a truly democratic 22nd century, grounded in equitable participation and pluralism.
Our mid term vision is to build on the democratic potential of the U.S. to create a unified pro-democracy majority in this century.
