We recently spoke with two Civic Hall Ambassadors, Tysha Vulcain-Murrell (she/her) and Asher Novek (he/him), about the Movement for Black Lives, what accountability looks like, and who's inspiring them. Civic Hall Ambassadors support our member community by serving as a connector for resources, networks, and skills. Tysha Vulcain-Murrell is a...
Almost 16 years ago, Zephyr Teachout wrote an article for the pre-pre-cursor to this site, PersonalDemocracy.com, titled, “Come Together Now: The Internet’s Unlit Fuse.” Having just finished two intense years in the trenches of Democratic presidential campaigning, first as a digital organizing trail-cutter for Vermont Governor Howard Dean, and then...
On Tuesday evening, several dozen Brooklynites gathered together in one of the only spaces available to us right now—on Zoom—to sing Happy Birthday. But the honoree wasn’t a person; it was the one-month anniversary of Bed-Stuy Strong, a mutual aid network that was started to respond to the coronavirus crisis...
With large-scale gatherings being put on-hold, it's proving time for digital engagement tech.
Two days ago, on March 10, members of Indivisible in Florida received an email inviting them to join in a new “battleground-state initiative” called Organizing Together 2020, and to “get in on the ground floor” as the effort starts to open field offices across the state. Tonight, several of Indivisible’s...
If you want to understand what happened with Shadow and the failure of its IowaReporterApp you have to understand how electoral campaign tech work is done and funded. Let me tell you a story to make sense of it. Shadow’s caucus app was built using Firebase and React, services quite...
Several weeks ago, I got a chance to catch up with Dan Kass and Georges Clement, two of the three co-founders of JustFix.NYC, a rising civic tech nonprofit that has been earning a lot of positive attention for the ways it is supporting tenants and affordable housing advocacy. As they...
The idea, says Color of Change's chief of campaigns Arisha Hatch, is to center Black joy and to build face-to-face teams, which now number in the thousands, of people meeting and acting locally (and having fun together).
In an age of mass participation, how best to make technology that serves good organizing? In this guest oped, Brian Young of Action Network offers some answers.