CONVENING - Climate Change & Social JusticeWatch: 1 minute video! SmartMeme convened climate activists & climate justice leaders to envision interventions in "The Copenhagen Moment." This retreat developed a strategic network of relationships among climate activists and creative practitioners. More video Coming Soon!
CONSULTING - Chelsea Creek Action GroupNarrative strategy work with a local Environmental Justice alliance in East Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts. This collaboration will build the messaging and media capacity of CCAG and assist them in framing their work in the context of climate change.
TRAINING - Progressive Technology ProjectSmartMeme is collaborating with the Progressive Technology Project (PTP) for REVERB Summer Camp: a multi-day, integrated training for grassroots organizers on story-based strategy, video production, and new media. !
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Iraq Veterans Against the WarSince 2006 smartMeme has been supporting IVAW as the new protagonists in the changing story about the occupation of Iraq.
COLLABORATIVE - California Climate & WaterWater is rapidly emerging as a key front in the climate crisis, and intensifying struggles for justice, access, democracy and ecological sanity. SmartMeme is facilitating a story-based strategy process for a cross-cutting alliance of environmental justice, environmental, tribal and faith-based groups to develop a strategy to reframe the water crisis around climate change.
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CONVENING - Climate Justice Strategy RetreatSmartMeme is convening a retreat on the climate crisis, story-based strategy, and strengthening movements for ecological justice. The retreat is a gathering of creative Climate Justice leaders to envision interventions around the 2009 COP-15 United Nations Summit on Climate Change, from a justice perspective.
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Converging Technologies Teach-inSmartMeme partnered with technology watchdog the ETC Group to explore the story of technological “progress,” and help to frame the threats of converging nano and biotechnolgies in the emerging field of synthetic biology.
Extreme InequalitySmartMeme is supporting the working group to change the story of wealth and inequality in the US.
TRAINING - Grassroots InternationalDesign and facilitation of training for Grassroots International on story-based strategy principles and practices. This process will emphasize how GI can gather and amplify the stories of their Global South partners.
CONSULTING - Haymarket People's FundHaymarket Peoples’ Fund is an anti-racist and multi-cultural foundation that is committed to strengthening the movement for social justice in New England. SmartMeme is supporting Haymarket in launching their new booklet about Haymarket's journey though an innovative anti-racism process.
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On the CommonsSmartMeme is a partner in On the Commons, a network that is changing the story of ownership, and exploring how we all share water, air, community gardens, libraries, knowledge, etc...
Protect Our WatersSmartMeme is changing the story of a watershed - from a privatized resource to plunder, to shared asset to be cherished - with an inspiring community based coalition in Mt. Shasta, CA