Tag: Civil Rights
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Activists caught in the Filter Bubble
How personalization helps activists find each other while losing society Also published at Alternet. Eli Pariser’s new book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You is a must-read for pretty much anyone who uses the Internet. Eli breaks down troubling trends emerging in the World Wide Web that threaten not only individual…
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“Spontaneity” and social change | reflections on Gramsci pt.1
I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of hegemony, and reading Antonio Gramsci. I’ll be posting a few reflections as I go. Years ago, I remember growing wary of tendencies (within activist groups I was part of) to exaggerate and glorify supposedly “spontaneous” elements of activism and protest. Some group members often recounted protests…
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Activating Popular Participation | Building a Successful Antiwar Movement (Role3: Facilitation)
This is the fourth and final installment in a series written by Jonathan Matthew Smucker in collaboration with Madeline Gardner, originally published in 2007. Click here to read the previous essay, Articulating a Strategy Kinetic and Potential There is a tendency among people active in social movements (like the antiwar movement) to look at ourselves…
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