The #Occupy Movement: Can it Be a Turning Point?
Op-ed by Doyle Canning
Written at the height of the Wall Street occupation, Doyle shares the story of how Boston residents are sitting in to save their homes—and providing a lesson in how to sustain the powerful spark of the #Occupy movement.
Essay by Patrick Reinsborough & Doyle Canning
How social media technologies became a force multiplier for a unifying narrative strategy during the Arab Spring.
Essay by Patrick Reinsborough & Doyle Canning
This essay is the Afterword to smartMeme's Re:Imagining Change manual and addresses the role of story-based strategy and other innovations in mobilizing collective response to the ecological crisis.
Article by Doyle Canning and Patrick Reinsborough
SmartMeme's Story-Based Strategy framework is applied to organizing creative mass actions including useful concepts like meta-verbs and action logic.
smartMeme in partnership with the Science & Environmental Health Network
The Future of Foresight: Long Term Strategic Considerations, this smartMeme experimental project surveys key trends that could affect social change movements through the lens of promoting the precautionary principle.
smartMeme in partnership with the Science & Environmental Health Network
10 Scenarios for the Unfolding Precautionary Movement, the accompanying document to the Future of Foresight provides ten different scenarios for how movements based on precautionary action could unfold by 2020.
2005 Article by Doyle Canning
This case study of the Turn Your Back on Bush mobilization at George Bush's second Innauguration explores how an innovative point of assumption action challenged the Bush media spectacle.
By smartMeme and the SPIN Project
Grassroots Communications Strategies at the 2004 DNC/RNC
This joint report from smartMeme and the SPIN Project includes analysis and survey data from a wide range of groups who were mobilizing around the 2004 political conventions. Many of the strategies and recommendations are even more relevant today.
Article by Ilyse Hogue and Patrick Reinsborough
This article explains how compelling stories and infectious memes can be used to amplify grassroots efforts to build a more democratic, just, and ecologically sane society.
Essay by Patrick Reinsborough
This ten part essay 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.