November 6-8th at the Watershed Center, Millerton, NY This an invitation for foundation trustee members, executives, program officers, impact investors, as well as major donors, donor organizers, and resource mobilizers who work directly with organizers and activists on the ground to create a space of learning and reflection on how we are deploying resources to the [...]
On October 4th 2016, I joined a team of Black Lives Matter national and Mid-West organizers, including local Black organizers from Columbus, Ohio. We came to organize in response to the killing of Tyre King, a 13 year old Black boy shot in the back of the head by police on an alleged would be [...]
This an invitation for foundation trustee members, executives, program officers, as well as major donors, donor organizers, and resource mobilizers who work directly with organizers and activists on the ground to create a space of learning and reflection on how we are deploying resources to the movements of our time. With the emergence of the Dreamers movement, People's Climate [...]
Living Resource Systems A New Approach for Supporting Movement Networks The last five years have seen an unprecedented wave of mobilization on a global scale: Movements have emerged all over the world Overthrown dictatorships [Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Tunisia] Taken back democracy in Spain [15M] Shifted the national conversation towards economic inequality [Occupy] Challenged the permissibility of [...]
As social movement organizers we at Movement Netlab are holding a mix of emotions right now. First, we are devastated and outraged. Delrawn Small Dempsey, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile’s names have been added to the long chronicle of black death and trauma that stretches back through this country’s inception, and everyday the family, [...]
The popularity of a once-obscure senator from Vermont is the product of years of organizing and agitation by social movements. Back in the days when New York’s Zuccotti Park pulsated with the chants and drumming of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, it was hard to complete too many conversations without encountering the anarchist catchphrase “diversity [...]
Led by the Barcelona reaserch group tecnopolitca.net at the University of Cataluya, members of Movement Netlab collaborated in the design and administration of this important survey of the Occupy Network, three years after the encampements. What follows are some the prelimanary results from the survey. #OccupySurvey According to our recent OccupySurvey2014, launched on the third anniversary [...]
https://youtu.be/s8tY7BqZ-ag?t=45m40s Tammy Shapiro presented the latest version of the Movement Netlab presentation at the From Protest to Power conference at Ford Foundation. Besides MNL, the conference features amazing interventions by Leah Hunt-Hendrix Solidaire, Taj James Movement Strategy Center, Jackie Mahendra Citizen Engagement Lab, Thenjiwe McHarris Blackbird, and Carlos Saavedra Ayni Institute.
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11577" src="http://movementnetlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-05-at-1.11.37-PM.png" alt="Screen Shot 2015-11-05 at 1.11.37 PM" width="1118" height="701" srcset="http://movementnetlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-05-at-1.11.37-PM.png 1118w, http://movementnetlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-05-at-1.11.37-PM-300x188.png 300w, http://movementnetlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-05-at-1 you can look here.11.37-PM-1024x642.png 1024w, http://movementnetlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-05-at-1.11.37-PM-320x202.png 320w" sizes="(max-width: 1118px) 100vw, 1118px" /> In Part 1 of this two-part series I argue why new social movement funding infrastructure is necessary. In Part 2 I’ll suggest how to [...]
M.C. Escher "Reptiles" "Reality is for people that lack imagination" Hayao Miyazaki I often say the world has an imagination problem. A problem dreaming of the possibilities life has to offer us and the world in which we live. If our livelihood is currently built on the oppression or misfortune of others and [...]
