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Growing Your Email List
Building a local email list as an organizing strategy begins where all the most effective organizing does – in relationship. For the Charlottesville Area Justice Coalition, I began by making a list in a spreadsheet of all the contacts I could think of that were 1) people I knew and 2) people I thought might…
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How to select a webmaster
When selecting a webmaster, there are several key factors to ascertain and consider: By carefully evaluating these factors, you can select a webmaster who meets your specific requirements, understands your business goals, and can help you create and maintain a successful website.
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Ten Ways to Stage an INEFFECTIVE Demonstration
IGNORE THE MEDIA You must ensure that the media broadcasts your interpretation of your action. To do this, they have to know what is happening and why. Media is under time pressures, so make their job as simple as possible. Have a press release prepared to give to the media before and after the action.…
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The Fine Art of Setting the Table
Here are fourteen steps to successful tabling: Good Luck! Author: Virginia Rovnyak is a retired mathematician and statistician. She is a founding and still active member of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, and has joined the efforts of several other peace and justice groups over the years.
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Finding Common Ground
During early voting, I spent a number of afternoons as a volunteer poll observer, a democrat working to be sure that every eligible voter was able to cast a ballot. One afternoon, I was joined by a republican observer. We had pleasant conversation while noticing that many voters were arriving with mail-in ballots. From there,…
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Longevity Matters
Somebody has said that half of activism is showing up. True enough. But then much of the other half is sticking around. A glaring strategic difference between conservative and progressive movements is longevity. Conservatives stick around. Look at how long it took from the earliest days of the religious right (Reagan) until Trump’s fanatical fascism.…