Online organizing tools like you've never seen them before -- Fully featured. A gorgeous interface that's a joy to use. Build lists of activists and work with your allies online easily. And did we mention free to individuals and small groups? Sign up here.
MegaShouts.org is a social media amplifier that allows users to make their voices heard through online and offline channels capable of generating media buzz
The frontier between the United States and Mexico is the busiest land border in the world. It is also among one of the world’s most heavily regulated and policed border zones—the arid climate of which is responsible for many migrant deaths each year. But it’s also an area that occasionally lends itself to more cheerful pursuits—something you won’t hear about from a number of far-right US politicians, who prefer to frame the US-Mexico border as something like a war zone.
A new video from Culturunners, "Khaled's Ladder," documents multidisciplinary artist Khaled Jarrar's journey along the U.S.-Mexico border and the making his new work that takes the border wall as its raw material.
This review aims to develop new insights about cultural activism as a means of claiming space and building place-identities in communities. As this is an under-explored area of research and scholarship, the review will build a foundation and conceptual framework for future research.
We are a diverse group of social psychology researchers who share an intense curiosity about social life and want to make the world a more peaceful, inclusive, generous, and sustainable place.
Backbone Campaign is a progressive movement building organization providing strategic, creative tactical tools, training and action support to activists and organizations.
Creative Resistance is an online showcase for activist artwork providing a daily stream of photos including puppets, protest signs and other activist visual
The Action Switchboard is an human-staffed organizing platform for activists to develop and pull off direct actions targeting specific goals. Just released by the Yes Men, it is a place to brainstorm, build your team, find the resources you need, and spread the word about your actions!
HIV & AIDS information focusing on regional and global responses to the epidemic. AVERT also provides HIV and AIDS education resources, sex education and advice for people of all age groups.
The Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington in Seattle is dedicated to understanding the ways people communicate in order to promote citizen engagement and effective participation in local, national, and global affairs.
Welcome to the world's most visited and popular Mahatma Gandhi website, M.K.Gandhi, mahatma, photographs of mahatma gandhi, Ghandi, Mahatma, Mohandas, peace, conflict resolution. Comprehensive site for Researchers Scholars Activists Students everyone. Includes a large collection of links on Gandhi Non-Violence Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Pepper Spray Cop, also known as “Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop”, is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of a police officer pepper spraying a group of Occupy protesters at the University of California Davis.
Written by activist & educator Aidan Ricketts this powerful guide to social change activism is an essential resource for anyone ready to make a difference.
The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way
Autore Hillary Rettig
Edizione illustrata
Editore Lantern Books, 2006
ISBN 1590560906, 9781590560907
Lunghezza 399 pagine
CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities.
Agenzia interinale dedicata al mondo dell'attivismo rivolta a singoli attivist*, collettivi, centri e gruppi politici. Offriamo servizi specifici per facilitare la vostra connesione e coordinazione reciproca.
Globally to advance social, economic and environmental justice, by helping citizens understand and influence the public issues that impact their lives.
A national capacity-building initiative to support diverse, community-based organizations and indigenous groups with proven track records in developing and organizing for effective, culturally competent policy initiatives that address the root causes of childhood obesity at the local level.
The Praxis Project is a national, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships with local groups to influence policymaking to address the underlying, systemic causes of community problems. Committed to closing the health gap facing communities of color, we forge alliances for building healthy communities.
Our internationally recognized staff employ their broad experience in training, advocacy, policy development, media relations and technical assistance to support local organizations as they work to advance their vision of a healthy, just community.
We help local groups hold institutions and governmental agencies accountable by designing community-based plans, conducting research, developing media strategies and developing policy initiatives – to achieve sustainable results.
Our goal is to build power at the local level to increase the capacity of communities to become effective advocates so that they are leaders and catalysts on the legislative and policy decisions that affect their lives.
The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO, pronounced "C-2") is a racial-justice organization dedicated to building a social-justice movement led by people of color. We were established in 1980 as a training and resource center that promotes and sustains direct-action organizing in communities of color in the United States. CTWO provides organizer training programs, including the model Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) and builds an active network of organizations and activists of color to achieve racial justice in its fullest dimensions.
The Toolkit is a set of resources that supports face-to-face training for residents and community leaders. The computer-based component (the "Organizing Game") is used to introduce concepts, prompt discussion, and allow residents to practice skills in a safe, non-threatening environment. The initial focus of the Toolkit is teaching Doorknocking, an organizing technique that's particularly effective in moving issues within a local community.
Play the Game Online
You can play the Organizing Game online by clicking one of the links below. The game will open in a new window.
Become a Video Volunteer!
Video Volunteers, also known as ViVo, is a long term project on Video Activism, mainly funded by the European Commission – Program “Youth in Action” – Action 4.5.
18 months; 6 local actions in 5 different countries; 15 international video productions; 10 focus groups and 6 international activities:
A Media training in Greece, A youth exchange in Hungary, A meeting for Youth Workers in Spain, An international conference in Budapest and a Final Evaluation Meeting!
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.