Tag: join the impact
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#p2 and prioritizing diversity: background reading for Thursday’s tweeting
#p2 tweeting* Thursday April 30 7-8PM Pacific/10-11PM Eastern Draft agenda and discussion here Please join us! Twitter is an opportunity to engage with communities currently marginalized by the “progressive blogosphere” — Tracy Viselli and Jon Pincus, The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on Twitter on The Exception #p2 is a resource for progressives who…
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Neocons’ worst nightmare: net movements intersecting in Ideas for Change in America
DREAM Activists and undocumented youth, the Stonewall 2.0 LGBTQ movement, Get FISA Right and civil libertarians, peace activists — together again for the first time, along with a demand for accountability for the last 8 years.  Scary stuff. 🙂 Read on for more … and please digg it! It’s been surprising to me how…
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Stonewall 2.0: Repeal DOMA!
The vibe under the sunshine at the corner of Castro and Market was positive and determined — a few hundred people maybe (I’m horrible at estimating), just the right size for the location. The immediate purpose was to organize for signature-gathering for the Open Letter to President Obama, with people fanning out afterwards to BART…
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Join the Impact: taking social network activism (and LGBTQ rights) to the next level
Kate X Messer’s Young gay marriage activist leads national protests on 365 Gay profiles Seattle Amy Balliett, who started up the Join the Impact web site after a blog post and email by her friend Willow Witte. Amy’s 26, and her day job is as a search engine optimizer. It’s also an excellent history of…