carnival of radical action

Stimulating the Grassroots, One Step at a Time

Description	¤	Most of us are organizers or activists in our real lives. Or at the very least, we think about it an awful lot and wish we had the skills and/or knowledge to organize. But contrary to the images of protest that make front pages and cause our hearts to swell–actual organizing is not as easy as it looks–nor is it very glamorous. More often than not, the process it takes to actually get to the glamorous protest part is boring, tedious, filled with infighting, or done by one or two overburdened people who haven’t quite figured out how to say no. And yet, the organizing part is so vitally important to achieving liberation (whatever that may be). It was through tons and tons of grass roots organizing and hard work that the right managed to come to power in the U.S. the way it has. The Zapatistas and the U.S. based Civil Rights movement both also have a history of achieving goals towards liberation through grassroots organizing. So how does one go about doing this grassroots organizing? That’s what this carnival is all about. I will be accepting any posts/submissions that have anything to do with organizing on a grassroots level.
Keywords	¤	organizing, protests, grassroots, activism, strategies, networking, advertising, promotion, community building, petitioning, staged protests, lobbying, advocacy, rallying
Filed under	¤	politics
Carnival homepage	¤	The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum
Submission deadline	¤	The 25th of each month
Maintained by	¤	Sylvia
Current status	¤	This carnival listing has been discontinued.