Animate Your Activism in Videos
In six animated videos featuring case studies from Poland to Nepal, we sum up our report on global good practices in campaigning.
Do You Want To “Raise Awareness”? Well, Stop, or It Might Be a Dumb Way To Die.
Ever thought of dumb ways to die? Watch this! So, is this a good or a bad campaign? This article from the Standford Social Innovation Review shares precious insights on this, and on many other aspects of how to make a successful campaign. It’s worth reading it in full, but for the busy ones, here’s…
How Same-Sex Marriage Campaigning Gets Strategic in China
Despite great odds, Chinese activists started a viral campaign that mobilized thousands of people to support marriage equality.
Creative Activism Under Social Distancing: Lessons from the Polish Feminist Movement
The COVID-19 pandemic did not stop Polish feminists from mounting an ambitious campaign to fight a citizen initiative against abortion—teaching lessons on persistence.
Social Media Tactics to Employ in 2020!
Social networks are without a single doubt a must for sending any effective campaigning message into the digital sphere. They allow us two-way communication with our target group members, give us the opportunity to measure and monitor the results of the campaign, but also to employ a wide breadth of content. On this occasion, we…
How LGBT Activists Infiltrated the Film Industry, and Why We Have to Keep Doing It
Why We’re Seeing More Realistic Depictions of Abortion in TV and Film This article was published on yesmagazine.com Planned Parenthood has partnered with the entertainment industry to combat misrepresentations of women’s reproductive health. Jonita Davis posted Mar 28, 2019 Over 8 million viewers last year watched while Scandal’s Olivia Pope, played by actor Kerri Washington, lay…
Learning to Listen
My grandmother used to say that “if you have one mouth and two ears it’s because you should listen twice as much as you speak”. Today I know this is a bare minimum. But listening is easier said than done. This article published by ActBuildChange.org provides useful advice on how to listen better, so we…
Change the Narrative: How a Swiss Group is Beating Right-Wing Populists
From condoms to viral videos, campaigners left no stone unturned in their fight against right-wing populism in Switzerland.
Old and New Power – Distributed action in modern times
NEW POWER How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You by Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms Heimans, CEO of Purpose, which “builds and supports social movements,” and Timms, executive director of the 92nd Street Y, debut with an illuminating discussion of how technology and our rising expectations have enabled…
Reason to Change
We mostly think that we can bring about change by relying on people’s reason. But as social psychologist Jonathan Haidt wrote in The Righteous Mind, “Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.” This is an edited excerpt of an article from thewholestory For decades, economists assumed that human beings were reasonable actors, operating in a…