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  • David Graeber - West Coast Speaking Tour, January 2012

    Posted Monday January 9th 2012 by Jen Angel

    As we posted earlier, we have been working a bit with Melville House on helping to publicize David Graeber's book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. It has been getting amazing press, and now David will be speaking at schools and bookstores on the West Coast in January! Mark your calendars! Tuesday, January 24, 4:30 pm - Portland, Oregon: Reed College, Room: Psych 105 Tuesday, January […] Keep reading

  • San Francisco Social Media for Social Justice: Intensive Workshop with Deanna Zandt - March 5, 2012

    Posted Wednesday January 4th 2012 by Jen Angel

    San Francisco Social Media for Social Justice: Intensive Workshop with Deanna Zandt - March 5, 2012 You know about social media. You know that you've got to get on board with it for your organization, or for your own activist work. You may have even signed up for Twitter or Facebook already, but you don't know where to start. What are the right tools to […] Keep reading

  • This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement

    Posted Saturday November 19th 2011 by Jen Angel

    With the Occupy movement being just over two months old, Yes Magazine has come out with the first substantive book! Called This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement, the book includes original/exclusive material as well as some of the best existing pieces on where this movement came from, what it means, and where it is going. Along with new and rising voices, […] Keep reading

  • Media Trainings Available

    Posted Wednesday October 19th 2011 by Jen Angel

    On Saturday I gave a "Media 201" training for Tools for Change in Toronto. I actually don't give that many media trainings, but I should probably do more of it. Because this was an "advanced" class, the agenda covered a pretty wide range: Developing a Media Plan / Outline of a Campaign Messaging / intro to Story Based Messaging Talking Points Pitching Building Relationships with […] Keep reading

  • Occupy Everything!

    Posted Sunday October 9th 2011 by Jen Angel

    We've been super excited about the Occupy Wall Street stuff going on the last few weeks. Here in San Francisco, things have been heating up as well - with Occupy SF facing opposition by the police and the city. This week, labor, community-based organizations, and non-profits are coming together to support the the Occupy movement, joining forces for a big rally and protest on Wednesday […] Keep reading

  • Aviation Justice Express Tour: Update! John Stewart denied entry into the United States

    Posted Monday October 3rd 2011 by Jen Angel

    For the last few months, we've been working on a tour of UK Activists Dan Glass and John Stewart, set to being October 1. Well, there has been a bit of a change of plans! Below is the press release we helped draft about the situation. As things develop, we'll be posting updates on the Aviation Justice website. Environmentalists from across the United States and […] Keep reading

  • Fall Tours: scott crow travels to Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin

    Posted Thursday September 29th 2011 by Jen Angel

    A few weeks ago, we started working with scott crow on his new book, Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective (PM Press, November 2011). First of all, I've never met scott in person, but we have so many close friends in common, I can't help but think we will be fast friends when we do meet. Black Flags and Windmills […] Keep reading

  • David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years

    Posted Friday September 23rd 2011 by Jen Angel

    Earlier this month I had the opportunity to work a little bit on David Graeber's new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. I've been a fan of David's for a while - I've read both Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology and Direct Action: An Ethnology, and though we've never met, he and I certainly have a lot of the same friends. Plus someone once called […] Keep reading

  • This Week is All About the Tar Sands

    Posted Monday August 22nd 2011 by Jen Angel

    OK, so first of all, "tar sands"? What? Basically, there is this kind of oil that is mixed up with sand and other stuff in Alberta. Some companies, including TransCanada want to extract this oil and refine it for our use. They want to build a pipeline from Alberta to Texas, called the Keystone XL pipeline. A lot of people, including environmental organizations and landowners […] Keep reading

  • How to Book Your Own Tour - A Guest Blog By Chris Dixon

    Posted Tuesday July 12th 2011 by Jen Angel

    A long time friend and comrade, Chris Dixon, recently helped put together a tour for our mutual friend, Andy Cornell. You can see both of them to the left of this screen in a photo from their tour. After the tour, Chris put together a tip sheet on things he had learned a long the way, and we both felt it might be helpful to […] Keep reading