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New! Story-Based Strategy for Mass Nonviolent Direct Action
This article by Doyle Canning and Patrick Reinsborough applies smartMeme's
Story-Based Strategy framework to organizing creative mass actions. By
exploring concepts like meta-verbs and action logic this article can help
to bring effective narrative strategy to direct action planning.
Information Warfare in Miami
This essay is a case study done by Ilyse Hogue and Patrick Reinsborough of the November 2003 mobilization against the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Miami. The article, based on smartMeme�s work supporting the mobilization, documents the use of military-style information warfare tactics against non-violent protest movements.
Winning the Battle of the Story
Winning the Battle of the Story by Ilyse Hogue and Patrick Reinsborough explains how compelling stories and infectious memes can be used to amplify grassroots efforts to build a more democratic, just, and ecologically sane society.
Turn Your Back on Bush
This essay by Doyle Canning explains how the campaign used memes to challenge assumptions about power and also describes how through direct action, activists can build solidarity through sharing their stories and strategies.
De-Colonizing the Revolutionary Imagination
This ten part essay by Patrick Reinsborough explores a wide range of innovative social change strategies and ideas including post-issue activism, direct action at the point of assumption and the politics of reality.
