Organizers' Collaborative

Voices of Tomorrow… Today! is taking back the media today, because tomorrow is right around the corner. Civic participation by today's young people will determine the health, social responsibility, and democratic stability of our nation for generations. We all need to take action against the negative effects of irresponsible media by challenging it through the education and empowerment of its consumers, and amplifying our own socially responsible media messages so that we are no longer affected by skewed representations and misinformation. Media Watch Team Action Coordinator will lead partic

Energy Justice Network is developing a web-based database and GIS mapping project to track all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated polluting waste and energy facilities in the U.S. Once set up, this ambitious project will enable people to find out what toxic hazards exist or may soon exist in their communities and will be able to use the site to locate community groups that are fighting these industries. Using this as a tool to build grassroots networks, such as our "No New Coal Plants" network, information will be fed into the system in both centralized and decentralized ways, fa

This session will explore how information and communications technologies are being adapted to the needs of people at the most local levels. Facilitator Michele Masucci will share experiences in building youth and community educational partnerships in inner-city Philadelphia, and Paul Schroeder will reflect on use of technologies in solid waste advocacy in rural Maine. Most of the session will be devoted to open discussion about the particular challenges faced by informal, marginalized and resource-poor individuals and groups. Are technologies helping to provide fairness for groups at the geographic and social margins? Participants will be asked to help frame the discussion through responses to three broad questions, now posted at:

Small budget organizations can now avail themselves of free and inexpensive tools for conducting internet advocacy campaigns. This session will provide you with an overview of available tools and an introduction to strategies and tactics for using them to advance your policy agenda. We will discuss tools and strategies for building and maintaining email lists, mobilizing activists to send messages to public and private sector policy makers, managing volunteers, managing websites, and creating online communities.