{"id":3710,"date":"2017-06-01T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/?p=563"},"modified":"2017-06-01T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T22:48:00","slug":"grassroots-organizers-needs-works-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2017\/06\/01\/grassroots-organizers-needs-works-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots organizers: What are your needs?  What works well for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/zRazSdPjJXdCihNA3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-405\" src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/12\/question-marks.jpg\" alt=\"stylized question marks\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Later this month I&#8217;m doing a presentation at Open Source Bridge called <a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/sessions\/2030\">Grassroots activism is hard.\u00a0 Can open source help?<\/a>\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grassroots activists have to deal with many challenges &#8211; including the tools they\u2019re using&#8230;. This session will survey progressive and transpartisan grassroots activists\u2019 needs and today\u2019s solutions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I&#8217;d love to hear your perspectives!\u00a0 Here\u2019s a few questions to kick things off. \u00a0\u00a0Feel free to answer one or all &#8211; or bring up anything else that\u2019s relevant!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What kinds of activities does your group do online?<\/strong> For example: publicize events, send out daily\/weekly actions, help people learn organizing skills, provide anti-racism or ally training, share and discuss news, develop strategy and tactics, collaborate with other groups, have video conferences, \u2026<\/li>\n<li><b>Which of these do you think your group does particularly well? \u00a0How do you do it?<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>What do group\u2019s members use for online discussion: email, Facebook, a forum, Slack or some other chat system, \u2026 ? \u00a0What works well, and what could be better?<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Online discussions on issues related to race, gender, class, disability, and the intersections between them often grow heated. What techniques does your group use to help here?\u00a0 <\/strong>For example: online or in-person workshops or training, encourage a &#8220;call-in&#8221; culture, treat some topics as off-limits, review communications for inclusive language, &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><b>What are some things your group does well online that others could learn from?<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>What projects do you look to as leaders and role models, either for how they organize, or for how they create an inclusive environment?<br \/>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The easiest way to respond is to <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/r\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjon88.typeform.com%2Fto%2FUL9OHt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/r\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjon88.typeform.com%2Fto%2FUL9OHt\">use the spiffy Typeform Survey here<\/a>.\u00a0 Or you can reply here or on \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jdp23.dreamwidth.org\/694.html\">Dreamwidth<\/a>, Facebook, Twitter, or Mastodon.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tQuestions for the OSBridge session\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[25,88,253],"class_list":["post-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drafts","tag-activism","tag-conferences","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}