At the ripe “old” age of 38 with a pair of toddlers and more than a decade into a career as a public defender, Rita Bosworth doesn’t conform to the stereotypes of a Silicon Valley startup founder or a slick Beltway operative experienced in the ways of manipulating American politics....
Aditi Juneja is the co-founder of the Resistance Manual, a crowdsourced platform that harnesses the collective power of the people to resist policies that undermine justice and equity. In a series of interviews for Civicist, we’re discussing what makes a movement intersectional, and how to support inclusiveness. In the first...
With a new tool called Ladders, Action Network hopes to bring the efficiency of for-profit marketing campaigns to the progressive digital organizing space.
This past winter, I was invited to a private dinner at the home of someone described to me as a “big donor” to progressive and Democratic causes, along with a mix of people with decades of experience in movement organizing. According to the person who pulled together the invitee list,...
Aditi Juneja is the co-founder of the Resistance Manual, a crowdsourced platform that harnesses the collective power of the people to resist policies that undermine justice and equity. Aditi will also be speaking on the topic “Your Vulnerability Is Your Strength” at Personal Democracy Forum in June. In the first...
The Resistance Manual is a crowdsourced platform that harnesses the collective power of the people to resist policies that undermine justice and equity. Launched several days before the inauguration, the volunteer-run site features actionable tools for resistance for both seasoned organizers and people who are new to activism and the...
Before the inauguration, before the election, the Peoples Climate March 2.0 was already in the works. Two years after the first People’s Climate March fulfilled its promise to be the largest climate change demonstration in history, the Peoples Climate Movement—the group has removed the apostrophe to “be more inclusive“—had begun...
Imagine that you are a person who wants to do something useful about climate change, particularly by getting your Members of Congress to pay attention to the issue. Along come some techies, and they give you ClimateBot, a tool that makes it “insanely easy” to convert your text messages into...
If you haven’t noticed already, we are living through a movement moment. Triggered by the election of Donald Trump and his combustive personality and policy moves, millions of Americans are in motion, forming and joining groups, rallying, signing and sharing petitions, and searching for ways to demonstrate their opposition. Thousands...
New Media was dead, but a corpse called “Digital” rose to take its place. It was bloodless, technocratic, and made of big data.