#Peoples250 Draws in Higher Education Organizations, Unions

This year, educational associations, historical societies, and labor unions across the country, are
launching the #Peoples250 social media campaign to use short form video as a tool that can
allow multiple groups and individuals to contribute to lifting up the history of struggle that has
advanced worker rights, individual rights, equality, and democracy over the course of the 250
years of the history of the United States as we head toward the commemoration of the
semi-quincentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

As we move towards the nation’s semi-quincentennial, we are confronting an era where working people’s rights and histories are being erased and replaced by narratives that serve the
interests of a select few in power. The goal of this project is to create a counternarrative that
centers working people, their history, and their accomplishments. Our desire is to move beyond
the typical formats we use in popular education – books, articles, podcasts, op-eds, panel
discussions – and to instead create a conversation-shaping tool that is democratic, open to
popular participation and reaches people – especially our youth – where they are.

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