New Orleans Ok, so you want to have your voice heard in Washington, but your marching shoes have holes in the soles, and your budget is too busted to bus? Well, there’s an app for that, in fact lots of them. You need to be in that number. A piece in Wired reported from the …
Organizing Upgrade is a Resource
New Orleans Let’s talk about another resource and information tool today available at organizingupgrade.com. This is a theme we’ll keep coming back to in these times of trouble and turmoil. I’m not sure if organizingupgrade.com is a new project or simply new to me. I stumbled on it recently when someone recommended I look at …
Digital “Tools” for Organizing Protests and Building the Movements that Follow
New Orleans Zeynep Tufekci, a professor at the University of North Carolina, wrote an interesting op-ed in the Times, headlined, “Does a Protest’s Size Matter?” The answer is easy: of course it does! But, that’s not the point she wants to underline. The professor wants to underscore the fact that a protest about something is …