BISC’S ROAD AHEAD ‘22 CONFERENCE ENVISIONS A WORLD WHERE “PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER JUST SURVIVING, THEY ARE THRIVING”

04/26/2022

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April 26, 2022

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BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER’S “ROAD AHEAD ‘22” CONFERENCE ENVISIONS A WORLD WHERE “PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER JUST SURVIVING, THEY ARE THRIVING”


LAS VEGAS, NV – From April 12th to the 14th, the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) returned to Las Vegas, Nevada after two years for its annual Road Ahead conference, which focuses on how ballot measures can build power and create change in our communities. For three days, attendees from all corners of the country and all parts of the progressive movement came together to share best practices, learn from state-based advocates, ballot measure experts, movement leaders, funding partners, and leaders from across many liberation movements, and hear keynotes from marquee names such as Arizona State Senator Raquel Terán, Renee Bracey Sherman, and BISC Executive Director Chris Melody Fields Figueredo, who reflected on the conference via Twitter following the event:

  • “Today my message to #RoadAhead22 & our movement – as we reemerge, we must center RADICAL LOVE in our work. Our North Star vision to guide us to the world beyond the horizon where our people are no longer just surviving, they are thriving  – requires radical love.”

  • Our ancestor bell hooks said: ‘Without love, our efforts to liberate ourselves and our world community from oppression and exploitation are doomed. Without an ethic of love shaping the direction of our political vision and our radical aspirations, we are often seduced, in one way or the other, into continued allegiance to systems of domination—imperialism, sexism, racism, classism.’

  • “Why wouldn’t we center love in our movement and political work? We have done it before and we must do it again.”
  • “It is IMPERATIVE that we not only center our people but love in our work. If ballot measures are to be a tool for liberation then WE MUST CENTER LOVE in every part of the 360 ballot measure lifecycle.”

  • “We have the agency to make ballot measures, love letters to our people.”