Tag: story-based strategy
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Speak the Truth, Tell a Story | Building a Successful Antiwar Movement (Role 1: Interpretive)
This is the second installment in a four-part series written by Jonathan Matthew Smucker in collaboration with Madeline Gardner, originally published in 2007. Click here to read the previous essay, Three Roles of an Antiwar Core Interpretation The first primary role of an antiwar core that we will discuss is to attach meaning to unfolding…
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Asymmetry of Victim Stories (or: why the rich get away with whining about taxes)
I’m reading two great books about the power of story as an organizing tool in social change struggles. One is smartMeme’s RE:Imagining Change (a guide for activists on story-based strategy), the other is It Was Like a Fever: Story-telling in Protest and Politics by Francesca Polletta. Amongst other subjects, both Polletta and smartMeme discuss…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 