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Dialogue: Uses of Social Media for Activists

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Posted June 17th, 2009 by samirnassar
Civil unrest Moldova in April, 2009 and and election fraud protests in Iran in June, 2009 make it clear that social media is now part of activists' toolkits. With the ability to route around censorship and route around restricted internet access, microblogging tools like Twitter and Identica, and social gathering sites like Facebook increase the power of social change activists.

Dialogue: Ballots, not Bullets

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Posted January 21st, 2009 by Philippe Duhamel

Ghana voterPhoto CC: Seb L. 

A car mechanic in Southern Ghana shows an inked index finger, evidence he has voted in the presidential election. On December 28th,
2008, Ghanians held the second round of presidential elections which
saw former vice-president, and opposition candidate John Atta Mills win
a majority of the vote, and being elected to a four-year term.

 

"It's not the votes that count. It's who counts the votes."  — Josef Stalin

As I hear and watch intently with the rest of the world the
inauguration speech of US president Barak Obama, I am reminded that an
authentic electoral process can signify major political change. After
years of inauspicious results in this part of the world, I had almost
forgotten about the power of genuine elections.

Using text-messaging to build issue awareness, attract new constituencies and mobilize people for action

Using text-messaging to build issue awareness, attract new constituencies and mobilize people for action
Amnesty International, the Netherlands

Dialogue: Nine tips on reaching a younger audience

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Posted December 8th, 2007 by Philippe Duhamel

AI poster

photo: Guerilla postering by Amnesty International in Belarus.

 

While everything and everyone ages all the time, new people come into this world every day. This is why every movement will need to rejuvenate its membership and tactics, eventually.


How do you appeal to a younger generation? What can you do to actively reach out to the youth of today? 

Dialogue: Using Mobile Phones for Action

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Posted November 27th, 2007 by New Tactics
Mobile technology is being used by citizens all over the world as the most affordable and massively adopted piece of technology. How can we harness this technology for advancing human rights and civil society participation? This dialogue is a space to share and discuss many ideas for "Using Mobile Phones for Action."

notebook: Sending Out an SMS: A rapid-response mobile phone network engages a youth constituency to stop torture fast

In this notebook text-messages and short message services are used to engage young people to quickly stop torture.  Amnesty International-Netherlands recognized that text-messaging was an easy medium to use to reach out to youth.  It was successfully used to protest torture when the Democratic Republic of Congo arrested a journalist.