Linking, Learning & Lobbying

Movements do not thrive in isolation. Authoritarian forces operate through coordination, amplification, and solidarity across borders. For progressive and justice-centered movements to withstand these pressures, they too must have spaces for alliance-building, knowledge exchange, and collective narrative power.

Our fourth pillar creates those spaces. Through convenings, peer-learning workshops, and cross-movement collaborations, we bring together organizations working on the frontlines of democracy, gender justice, climate, labor, and human rights to strengthen one another’s communications and digital security capacities. These spaces are designed not as conferences, but as strategy labs; practical, relational, and movement-led environments where participants co-develop responses to shared challenges.

This work includes:

• Creating cross-movement collaborations that unify fragmented efforts into coordinated power
• Establishing peer-learning cohorts that provide ongoing support beyond the life of a single project
• Documenting lessons and practices to build a shared body of movement knowledge

Movements must not only strengthen their own infrastructure, they must also be present where global agendas on communications and digital security are being shaped. Yet too often, these convenings are dominated by corporate, state, or technocratic voices, with little to no feminist or movement-rooted participation. The result is policy and practice that ignore lived realities and perpetuate gaps between tech and justice.

As part of our one-year accompaniment cycle, C4AC ensures that the organizations we work with are not left out of these critical arenas. We accompany them as part of a C4AC delegation to global and regional convenings on communications, digital rights, and security. There, they are supported to:

• Directly engage funders, donors, and policymakers with feminist, movement-based analysis.
• Bridge the gap between technology and feminist movement-building, ensuring that global discussions are informed by lived realities and grounded in justice.
• Build alliances across sectors and borders, linking digital security advocates with feminist organizers, climate activists, and human rights defenders.
• Shift narratives in real time, inserting language of care, democracy, and people power into spaces often dominated by technical or state-centric discourse.

These convenings are where decisions are made about resources, regulation, and risks. By accompanying movements into these spaces, we support redistributing narrative power, ensuring that those most impacted by repression are not only protected, but also politically and actively present in shaping global agendas.

We understand this pillar as building the connective tissue of resistance. When movements are equipped not only with their own narrative and security infrastructure, but also linked to others facing parallel struggles, they gain strength, adaptability, and visibility on a scale that no single organization could achieve alone.

In these spaces, movements practice solidarity, build resilience, and sharpen their strategies. They learn from one another’s risks and innovations. And they demonstrate a principle core to our vision: democracy and people power are sustained not by isolated voices, but by collective infrastructure that holds us together across borders, contexts, and struggles.