I got an email recently which asked the question, “If our world is really looking down the barrel of environmental catastrophe, how do I live my life right now?” This motto — shorthand for Gandhi’s…
WITNESS (www.witness.org) uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations :: It is an international human rights organization that empowers others to use video to create meaningful change in laws, policies, practices and behaviors. We partner with grassroots organizations and networks around the world to train them to use the power of video to create change.
Dr. Pop is a popular education website that helps people become better story-tellers and strategic thinkers. We do this by telling stories ourselves, explaining complicated things in simple ways, and showing how and why we did it. Along the way we focus on how the economy, urban planning, and democracy work, provide living examples of how they can work better, and offer tools for organizers, educators, students, activists and all manner of curious people who are interested in change.
What made this [Egypt] a revolutionary moment was not the tactical usage of platforms like Facebook and Twitter—but rather how these technologies became a force multiplier for a unifying narrative strategy. Social media spread video and messaging, and was integrated into Al Jazeera’s coverage of the uprising, so as to create a chorus of the narrative of “Liberation Square” that reached across the world into the west.
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