Living Out Our Imagination
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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleBuilding a Movement: From Occupy Wall Street to Bernie Sanders
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...
View ArticleMovement Cycles in the Struggle for Black Lives
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...
View ArticleLiving Resource Systems: A New Approach for Supporting Movement Networks
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...
View ArticleResource Mobilization for Movement Building Retreat
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...
View ArticleCrisis Pimping or Preparedness? Investing in Social Movement Encapsulation
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...
View ArticleOld Money, New System Retreat 2017
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...
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