Not all picket signs are created equal. Overall, there are three main elements for picket signs: symbolism, education, and engagement. By utilizing a combination of these three elements, organizers can ensure that protests are primed for meaningful change and go beyond appearances.

Welcome to the sixth episode of Activist H!, where today we will be opening up the Activist ToolKit to share VolunteerMatch with you - a platform for connecting organizations with volunteers! It's an amazing website that does wonders for up and coming organizations. It's also a great place to go if you're looking for a way to get involved with the issues you care about! You can check out their website by visiting volunteermatch.org. The service is free for nonprofit organizations, though...

Today we explore the work of Jonathan Christiansen, who provides us with a template for understanding the longitudinal dynamics of social movements. We then build upon his work to extend this framework into a metaphorical organism to help abstract this difficult to quantify concept. By examining social movements as organisms, we can appreciate how they survive, and understand how to better take part in our our own.

Today we explore the work of Jonathan Christiansen, who provides us with a template for understanding the longitudinal dynamics of social movements. We then build upon his work to extend this framework into a metaphorical organism to help abstract this difficult to quantify concept. By examining social movements as organisms, we can appreciate how they survive, and understand how to better take part in our our own. Find his paper here.

Helen Keller's legacy is often reduced to overcoming the challenges facing the deaf--blind community at a time when such a feat was unheard of. This is only a part of her story. Today, we will be exploring the totality of her professional activism, and the work which she did on behalf of the plurality of communities which she organized to accomplish extraordinary goals. We will learn what made her campaigning efforts so effective so that we can replicate her success in our own activism and...

In today's episode we discuss a framework for thinking about activism. It's not the set of actions which raise awareness or lead to change, but the capture of the natural phenomenon of change itself, in the interest of one's community. Our world is constantly evolving, and it is up to us to participate and ensure that as we move forward, we are moving towards a more just world. For more activism literacy content and education please visit our website, activisthq.org. Activist HQ is a...

Today we are joined by Julia Futo, a neurodiversity advocate and recipient of the 2020-2021 Diversity in Action Scholarship, who shares her story with us. Julia's struggle as a neurodivergent individual has helped shape her into the fierce advocate for neurodiversity awareness that she is today. If you would like to reach out to Julia or want to find out more about her work, you can visit her Different Brains page or her LinkedIn page. You can also reach her at: [email protected]

Hello, welcome to the first episode of Activist HQ’s weekly podcast where we will learn a little bit more about activism each episode. As an introduction, Activist HQ is a network initiative by the Tangency Foundation, a nonprofit activism literacy organization which is entirely volunteer-run. We work hard to develop free resources to help empower stakeholders to make change happen. For more information on Activist HQ or the Tangency Foundation, please visit ActivistHQ.org, where you can...