Now More Than Ever the World Needs The School of Authentic Journalism Fabiola Rocha - The Narcosphere
go to original February 20, 2017

Augusto Mora, one of Mexico's most acclaimed young comic book authors, teaches graphic design for social movements (The School of Authentic Journalism)

It is a time of deep social conflict in the United States, Mexico, and throughout much of the world. Amid this conflict, The School of Authentic Journalism provides an effective laboratory where we study and teach how to communicate the objectives and stories of social movements that seek to transform the world, and our view of it, for the better. Our work is to tell stories - and help others tell their own stories - in ways that make movements stronger, more effective and victorious. But only with your support will the 2017 school be possible.

We have no endowment and our only financial support comes from readers and supporters to a nonprofit organization, The Fund for Authentic Journalism. We are a team of united individuals who share our ideas, knowledge, and our own time to train journalists to cover and support the struggles our world so desperately needs.

Each year, the School of Authentic Journalism invites between 40 and 80 talented journalists and organizers to learn a unique form of struggle based on strategic media skills and nonviolent civil resistance. $30,000 is the minimum it costs to make a Spanish language session happen. However, if we raise $70,000, we'll be able to host a longer bilingual school in 2017 for English speakers too.

These are essential skills for a world that seems to have been suddenly immersed in a politics of hate that threatens to roll back our hard won victories, and expose our vulnerabilities. If we let them win, we could lose our rights.

During the last few months, many have gone to the streets, some have fought back using the courts, and still others are unsure of what to do and who to join. Our school is made for people who may or may not have the answers, but who want to learn the tactics of strategic nonviolence, and strengthen the movements with whom they feel an affinity through new techniques for reporting and communicating, both within the ranks of a movement, and also to the outside world.

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