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The Social Media Secrets of Top Movement Leaders
“I consider it part of my job and role as a movement leader to know what people are thinking, to build national community with those in my networks, and support the members of the Media Action Grassroots Network.” – learn more from Malkia Cyril and Rinku Sen of Applied Research Center about the social media secrets of movement leaders.
2:30pm PST: Tweet @CNN the Questions They SHOULD Ask About the Occupation of and War on Palestine
Why are reporters at mainstream television news outlets like CNN simply parroting the talking points of the Israeli government, and not raising critical questions that might help bring clarity to the cause, context, and potential for change in this moment?
Shifting Culture, Making Change
Last week, I had the great fortune of participating in a passionate discussion with a set of brilliant and effective leaders on what some call the “progressive project”, in reference to the long-term goals and strategies of a broadly defined progressive movement.
The Advocate Names ED Malkia Cyril as a Forty Under 40 Honoree
Every year news magazine the Advocate features Forty Under 40, which they define as “budding powerhouses, leaders in media, politics, sports, and science that are facilitating our future.” This year Executive Director Malkia Cyril was selected as one of the forty people changing the world we live in.
The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: A Review and Discussion of Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games Trilogy
Imagine a world where the death of children is the sport, vicious economic inequity and competition is the game, and culture is created and manipulated through the daily mechanization of a highly controlled political and media system.
Memes Are Not Movements – Why the hoodie meme is important, but not enough
Wearing hoodies will not overturn the vicious Stand Your Ground laws that have proliferated throughout U.S. states in the last year, only organized pressure can change the law.
In this edition of VisionTalk, Saru Jayaraman talks about how Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) are building a powerful movement to improve the working conditions and wages of the nation’s 10 million restaurant workers.
