http://smartmeme.com/ smartMeme combines effective organizing with strategies to amplify your story in the popular culture. We provide strategy, training, communications and design services that help build grassroots movements and win campaigns for ecology, justice and real democracy. http://smartmeme.org/blog/?p=9 A contest to name the economic era of these years 2000's...The 2nd Gilded Age? The Subprime Period? The Age of Excess? Or do you have a better idea? The Working Group on Extreme Inequality is challenging today's extreme concentration of wealth and power - and wants your ideas! http://smartmeme.org/blog/?p=3 SmartMeme is pleased to join Team Colors Collective and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press in announcing the launch of “In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements”... http://smartmeme.org/blog/?p=6 New from smartMeme: Changing the Story for Media Justice! smartMeme was invited to collaborate with the SPIN Project on their newly released toolkit Whose Media? Our Media! - Strategic Communications Tools to Reform, Reclaim, and Revolutionize the Media http://www.smartmeme.com/article.php?id=298 A work in progress, dynamic principles in practice... In all of our efforts to collaborate for change, we value relationships. We strive to maintain the perspective and practice of anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, and anti-oppression generally. http://smartmeme.com/article.php?id=303 Links we love Find links to like minded strategy & training orgs, mags we read, framing and messaging resources, and other cool stuff http://smartmeme.com//downloads/sMbattleofthestoryworksheet.pdf Breakin down the elements of story smartMeme's signature tool helps you work through the status quo story on your issue, and tease out the elements of your narrative in order to guide campaign strategy... http://smartmeme.com//downloads/sMpointsofinterventionworksheet.pdf Places in the System To Tell a Different StoryThis worksheet gives groups a framework to think through places in the system were we can take action for change... http://smartmeme.com/article.php?id=302 What up Cuz? SmartMeme is building a community of strategists and trainers who are innovating social change methods and models, and supporting critical struggles in communities across the country. http://smartmeme.com/article.php?id=298 Re-Adopted/Adapted by the Board and Collective 2008 - (Always a Work in Progress)In all of our efforts to collaborate for change, we value relationships, and approach our work with respect for all people and all life on Earth. http://smartmeme.com/article.php?id=297 We believe that fundamental social change is not only possible by deeply necessary. People powered grassroots social movements, led by people who are most directly effected, are the engines of true social progress. http://smartmeme.com/article.php?id=296 smartMeme’s signature story-based strategy curriculum helps activists apply framing, narrative power analysis, and messaging. We are currently producing a curriculum study guide called RE:Imagining Change (Summer 2008 release). http://smartmeme.com/article.php?id=299 smartMeme donors speak: smartMeme is a community who is thinking big and making real change on the ground. I give to smartMeme because it is strategic, effective, and its a fun community to be a part of! http://smartmeme.com/article.php?id=290 Winter Solider: Iraq & Afghanistan – Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations The Winter Solider project explored the transformative power at the intersections of storytelling, organizing, and new media – the heart of smartMeme’s mission... http://smartmeme.com/article.php?id=291 Bring the Salmon Home: The Klamath Basin River Restoration Campaign The story in the basin has changed and it is no longer about if dams will be removed its merely a question of how many and how exactly it will happen... http://smartmeme.com/article.php?id=292 Rural Vermont Campaign to Protect Farmers from Predatory LawsuitsIn 2004 Rural Vermont successfully passed the Farmers’ Right to Know GE Seed Labeling and Registration Act...