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....
Silicon Valley underwent a political awakening in 2017. Catherine Bracy and Derecka Mehrens are harnessing the political moment to engage tech workers and service workers in the fight for a more equal Bay Area.
Digital organizers on how they are using peer-to-peer texting in their work and whether it lives up to the hype.
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...