Economic Protest | #BlackOutDay2020
Black Businesses, Art, Entrepreneurship, & Intellect for #BlackOutDay2020, #StopHateForProfit, & the Movement for Black Lives | Resources, Events, Content, and much more.
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Innovations of This Protest Movement
Translations, Interventions, Crowdsourcing, Innovations & more from black voices and the Black Lives Matter Movement
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Citizen Scientists Help Emergency Response in Caribbean
After natural disasters, citizen science platform Zooniverse puts the crowd to work helping emergency responders on the ground.
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New Spill Tracker Enlists Crowd to Help Monitor Pollution After Hurricanes
The SkyTruth Spill Tracker collects pollution reports in one place, and makes the information available to the public as well as the relevant authorities.
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How the Crowd Could Help Keep Zinke Accountable
The Wilderness Society is asking volunteers to ensure that the Americans who shared their opinion on National Monuments are heard by the Trump administration.
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Democratizing the Legal System One Crowdfunding Campaign at a Time
CrowdJustice was founded on the idea that the rich shouldn’t be the only ones with access to the legal system. The crowdfunding platform launched in the United States yesterday with a campaign to raise funds for two Yemeni brothers caught in the crosshairs of President Trump’s executive order on immigration....
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Can You Hear Us Now? Getting the Public’s Questions into the Last Presidential Debate
The Commission on Presidential Debates identified numerous ways to engage the public this election cycle. Will the last presidential debate finally include a question up-voted by the people?
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Facebook and the French Election of 2012
In France’s first debate using social media to include questions from the public, the questions were smart and on-point, and viewership soared.
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In Shift From Sponsored Petitions to Crowdfunding, Change.org Changes Everything
Change.org, an open petition platform, overhauls its previous revenue model to make room for new crowdfunding tools.
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Florida Candidates Field Questions Chosen by the Public
Want to engage candidates in substantive dialogue about issues that matter most to voters? For starters, try asking the voters what they want to know.
