smartMeme : Reality Check Media/Adopt-an-Activist

Reality Check Media/Adopt-an-Activist

“SmartMeme had incredible experience in projecting grassroots messages into the corporate media. Adopt-an-activist partnered with smartMeme to support the Reality Check Media Team, to get the story straight about direct action at the RNC. It was the largest series of demonstrations outside a political convention, ever. Front page all week. The rest is history.” --Meddle Bolger, Director, Adopt-an-Activist

From top to bottom:
1.) Demonstrators in Herald Square chanting behind the live shot of “Hardball with Chris Matthews” on August 31st
2.) Demonstrators “die in” at Halliburton on August 31st, 2004
3.) September 1st: Reality Check-organized press conference to free the 1,000+ detainees at Pier 57.
4.) Aug 29th UFPJ march live on C-SPAN

Partner: Adopt-an-Activist

Project: Reality Check!

Services Provided: Organizing, Training, Media Support

When the Republican Party selected New York City to hold its annual convention, New Yorkers started mobilizing immediately to protect the memory of September 11 from exploitation by the hawks in the GOP, and trumpet a resounding NO to the Bush agenda. smartMeme and Adopt-an-Activist partnered to bring smartMeme to New York for a six week project that became the “Reality Check A31 Media Team.” Reality Check trained activists, amplified voices, and made media space to tell the stories about peace, democracy, nonviolent civil disobedience at the 2004 RNC.