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Operating a Temporary Restaurant to Raise Funds and Awareness

In the spring of 2009, five students from Utrecht, the Netherlands, operated a temporary, volunteer run restaurant, The Cultural Cookery, to raise money for three selected development projects. Using their own time and effort to create PR, attain donations for foods, other sponsorships, and gain access to free space, these students raised EUR 8,000 in just two weeks time.

Blog: Take new tactics everywhere with mobiles

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Posted December 1st, 2007 by Philippe Duhamel

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Image: From a PowerPoint presentation by Anneke Bosman, Amnesty International, The Netherlands.

In keeping with this blog’s mission to bring you concentrated nuggets of tactical and strategic information, we continue our exploration of new tactics involving the use of mobile phones. I draw my inspiration today from various posts and papers found mostly on the sites of resource people for our tactical discussion on using mobile phones for action. 

My last post covered the emergence short messaging as a tool for protest organizing in various countries, including the Philippines, how Amnesty International set up its youth-based SMS Alert network, and how to find some protest ringtones. I now turn to some incredibly creative emergent uses of wireless communications for human rights and social change work.

Blog: Harnessing new technology for new tactics

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Posted November 27th, 2007 by Philippe Duhamel

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This month’s tactical discussion focuses on using mobile phones for action. From the time the tactical notebook by Amnesty International on the use of short messaging services was published here in 2004, mobile phones have only become more powerful, multifunctional and almost universal. We can now record sound, photos, even video on our phones. The pocket devices can be used to send email, files, pictures, music, surf the web and chat, wherever we are, whenever we want.

In what ways can the power of the small computers we still call “phones” be harnessed as tools for collective action, as instruments for improving the world? What technology do we see emerging that could create innovative life-changing and life-saving tactics?

Blog: Sample Timeline for Preparing an Annual Fundraising Eevent

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Posted July 3rd, 2007 by lsuits

Attached to this Blog entry is a sample of a timeline for preparing and conducting an annual fundraising event.

This sample timeline can be used to help each of us as we prepare for annual events for our own organizations.  It was prepared and shared by Carol Prendergast from Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture.  She shared this tool in last month's webinar.