Both the California Constitution and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protect your right to free expression. But there are many questions you face when you decide to organize and speak out. When do you need a police permit? Are there things you cannot say or do? Are there any limitations on when or where you can demonstrate? What about civil disobedience? This guide will help answer these questions
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.
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.
http://youtu.be/MyDemwpr5r418.40Si conclude per ora la campagna "sconti contro la crisi". La giornata di oggi è servita a lanciare pubblicamente questa iniziativa che proseguirà nei prossimi giorni in tutti i negozi del centro della città. ...
Creative Resistance is an online showcase for activist artwork providing a daily stream of photos including puppets, protest signs and other activist visual
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.
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.
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.
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.
March for an Alternative to cuts: The TUC is organising a national march and rally against on 26 March 2011, in response to the government's programme of fast and deep public spending cuts. This site provides more information and resources for the day.
Tienillamente è la campagna lanciata dall'associazione ScanZiamo le Scorie in occasione del 10° anniversario della protesta contro l’ipotesi di realizzazione del deposito di scorie nucleari a Scanzano Jonico (MT)
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.
As I have posted before, the definition of advocacy that I use when talking with direct service organizations about how they can ease into it comes from the Latin root word, advocare, which means "to call to aid". It's about how you build a constituency around your cause, even more broadly than around your organization.…
Welcome to the NEW Change Management Toolbook! It remains a premium resource for change management related information, methodologies, tools and for interacting and establishing links with other change practitioners. However, the Change Management Toolbook has undergone another transformation - we have retained all the great content, but have decided to open up the site to a far greater extent. The central part of the new Change Management Toolbook site is the new "Change Management Community" - a shared, free space where other change practitioners can set up their own presence, publish their own content, and do lots more - for free! (See more on this further down on this page.) So - one of the most visible internet platforms for change management is now open to you. We can't wait to see what you are going to do with it...
The Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, connecting, and supporting digital activists from around the world. AYM hosts annual conferences, events, and trainings that link influential leaders in technology, media, private and public sectors with the some of the world's most promising digital activists. AYM’s website, launching soon, will serve as a hub for discussion, resources, and news about digital activism around the world.
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.
Cronachediordinariorazzismo.org è un sito di informazione, approfondimento e comunicazione specificamente dedicato al fenomeno del razzismo curato da Lunaria in collaborazione con persone, associazioni e movimenti che si battono per le pari opportunità e la garanzia dei diritti di cittadinanza per tutti.
ARTICLE 19: defending freedom of expression and information.
ARTICLE 19 envisages a world where people are free to speak their opinions, to participate in decision-making and to make informed choices about their lives
Purpose creates 21st century movements. We deploy the collective power of millions of citizens and consumers to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems