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| The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has organized to win landmark human rights victories in campaigns targetting Taco Bell, McDonalds, and Burger King. The CIW offers an inspirational model of the kind of strategic, visionary work that is transforming the global economy. Photo: Jacques-Jean Tiziou. |
Our dream is a movement of movements with the power, creativity, and vision to change the stories and change the world within our lifetimes...
smartMeme is part of a grassroots cultural uprising of people power demanding change and offering visions to move us towards a solidarity economy, a healthy planet, a just world free from racism and oppressions for this and future generations...Everyday this dream is awakening in our hearts and in the streets because of people like you in communities everywhere. Join us.
Mission
SmartMeme builds movements and amplifies the impact of grassroots organizing with new strategy and training resources, values based communications, collaborations, and meme campaigning.
SmartMeme uses the power of narrative to advance a holistic vision of grassroots social change that connects struggles for democracy, peace, justice, and ecological sanity.
Anti-Oppression Principles
A work in progress, dynamic principles in practice...
In all of our efforts to collaborate for change, we value relationships. We strive to maintain the perspective and practice of anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, and anti-oppression generally.
Operating Assumptions/Theory of Change
We believe that fundamental social change is not only possible by deeply necessary.
People powered grassroots social movements, led by people who are most directly effected, are the engines of true social progress.
Situational Analysis
How can we get to the roots of the problems we are facing?
Ecological devastation, rampant poverty, war and militarism, and, what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called, “spiritual death”...