Innovations in the activist world session, continued:
Matisse Bustos Hawkes, WITNESS. Using media to advance human rights. WITNESS is launching a new tool, The HUB (not to be confused with SSRC's Hub), a "YouTube for human rights," but oriented to action on the ground.
Q&A:
Who is Bucketworks constituency?
1) Teens 14-18
2) 27-37, trying to do what they love with work & family
3) Boomers
"But we target everybody, which everybody tells me is insane." He says that intergenerational communication is a surprise result.
Deron is now talking about "ego-altruism." "If you can make it entertaining, with an edtirorial voice, and make it easy for people to step in the way it works for them, it works."
We've moved into a conversation fetishizing the Boomer generation's common cause in activism, in reference to the "cynicism of this generation toward traditional activism." This is really bothersome to me how a flat view of history enables a weak analysis of current political trends. "The Boomers" were far from unified (hippies were not Yippies were not Panthers were not MLK-style civil rights activists were not the founders of 2nd wave feminism, etc), and it's not like everyone or even most people were involved with any of these romanticized, famous movements.
I wonder how much this narrative of "the disengaged young generation" drives the development of these new approaches and to what effect.
I also wonder about the ethics and etiquette of blogging about someone sitting right next to me.
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- Nathaniel James
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- In my professional life, I'm the Campaign Coordinator at the Media and Democracy Coalition. Beyond my commitment to advancing the values of justice and democracy in the media sphere through policy change and advancing community media, I have an intense interest in the social structure and process of intra and inter-organizational collaboration; social networks and social network analysis; network theory; complex systems; and emergent phenomenon. The views expressed here are my own and don't reflect the positions of any organizational entity.