[Tools/Analysis] Beautiful Trouble: Toolbox for the Next RevolutionNow available! Exciting publication with strategic tools, case studies, & concepts for creative action. SmartMeme contributed sections on story-based strategy and co-branded the project with Yes Labs and Agit-Pop. Read more and order your copy today!
[Training] - SmartMeme 2011-12 Training & Advanced Training
Story-based Strategy: Framing and Narrative for Social Change Makers - One Day trainings in Boston, New York & San Francisco. Advanced training in Boston April 2012. Application & more info HERE.
Story-based Strategy: Framing and Narrative for Social Change Makers - One Day trainings in Boston, New York & San Francisco. Advanced training in Boston April 2012. Application & more info HERE.
[Collaboration] Bay Area 2030: Scenario Planning for Justice & Transition
SmartMeme is collaborating with our friends at the Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project and the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center to use scenario projections for the year 2030 as a tool to bridge the gap between our current movement strategies and the scale of the emerging crisis. This multiphase experimental project will identify key trends, articulate new strategies and engage fellow movement leaders in an ongoing dialogue around strengthening our movements for resilient communities and ecological justice.
SmartMeme is collaborating with our friends at the Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project and the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center to use scenario projections for the year 2030 as a tool to bridge the gap between our current movement strategies and the scale of the emerging crisis. This multiphase experimental project will identify key trends, articulate new strategies and engage fellow movement leaders in an ongoing dialogue around strengthening our movements for resilient communities and ecological justice.
[Partnership] Community Labor United
smartMeme is co-convening MA social justice and labor groups to explore communication strategies and maximizing our collective messaging impact.
smartMeme is co-convening MA social justice and labor groups to explore communication strategies and maximizing our collective messaging impact.
[Partnership] Right to the City Alliance
smartMeme is working with the RTTC in Boston and nationally to spread the story of social justice for urban communities. This includes convening, training, and consultation.
smartMeme is working with the RTTC in Boston and nationally to spread the story of social justice for urban communities. This includes convening, training, and consultation.
[Collaboration] - National Domestic Workers Alliance
smartMeme is engaging with NDWA around story-based strategy for the "Caring Across Generations" campaign.
smartMeme is engaging with NDWA around story-based strategy for the "Caring Across Generations" campaign.
[Partnership] Slow Food USA
Slow Food USA is undertaking an ambitious campaign to transform food and farm policy and create good clean fair food for all. smartMeme is supporting the process with story-based strategy and framing.
Slow Food USA is undertaking an ambitious campaign to transform food and farm policy and create good clean fair food for all. smartMeme is supporting the process with story-based strategy and framing.
[Training] - Media Action Grassroots Network (MAGNet)SmartMeme trained MagNet leaders working for media justice and a fairer internet future for low-income and People of Color communities. Check out MAGNet and the Center for Media Justice. See pics from our training here!
[Tools/Analysis] - Re: Imagining Change Our new guidebook Re:Imagining Change - How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements and Change the World provides resources, theory, hands-on tools and illuminating case studies for the next generation of innovative change makers. This unique book explores how culture, media, memes, and narrative intertwine with social change strategies, and offers practical methods to amplify progressive causes in the popular culture. Get it @ PM PRESS
[Collaboration] - Climate JusticeSmartMeme has been embedded in Climate Justice work since 2009, and has worked on the ground in Copenhagen, Cochabamba & Cancun amplifying actions by Indigenous Environmental Network, Movement Generation, Grassroots Global Justice and others. Videos Are Here! SmartMeme is committed to helping build the movement for Climate Justice.
[Innovation} - Community of PracticeSmartMeme builds community with like-minded activist innovators and creative strategists across the country, and the world! Check out our presentation for practitioners at the national gathering of the Progressive Communicators Network, and meet our "cousin organizations" and "practitioner play group."
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