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Organizing Archives


  • Civic Engagement, Civic Tech, Member Story, Organizing

    Accountability, Growth, and Inspiration in the BLM Movement

    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...

    By: Tenzin Kyisarh, Curtis Davis, and Fiona Teng 鄧穎恆 Jul 1, 2020
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  • First Post, Organizing

    The Power of Crowds

    Two weeks that have shaken the US, and the world, by the numbers.

    By: Micah L. Sifry Jun 9, 2020
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  • Civic Engagement, Civic Tech, Coronavirus, Democracy, Organizing

    The Internet’s Missing Link in the Age of COVID-19

    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...

    By: Micah L. Sifry May 22, 2020
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  • Civic Tech, Coronavirus, New York, Organizing

    Bed-Stuy Strong: Scaling Mutual Aid During COVID-19

    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...

    By: Jessica McKenzie Apr 16, 2020
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    Coronavirus, Future of Work, Organizing

    It’s Time For Next-Generation Remote Collaboration

    With large-scale gatherings being put on-hold, it's proving time for digital engagement tech.

    By: Matt Stempeck Mar 16, 2020
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  • Coronavirus, Organizing

    COVID-19: The Fierce Urgency of Now

    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...

    By: Micah L. Sifry Mar 12, 2020
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  • Elections, Organizing, Politics

    The Shadow Economy: Why Campaign Tech Keeps Failing

    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...

    By: Evan Henshaw-Plath Feb 5, 2020
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  • Civic Tech, Housing, New York, Organizing

    Using Tech for Housing Justice: The JustFix.NYC Story

    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...

    By: Micah L. Sifry Dec 18, 2019
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  • Civic Engagement, Organizing

    From Textathons to Black Joy: How Color of Change is Re-imagining Organizing

    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).

    By: Micah L. Sifry Oct 25, 2019
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  • Movements, Organizing

    How to Build Tech With, Not For, Movements

    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.

    By: Brian Young Nov 4, 2018
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