Civicist: How Movements Organize Now: Notes on the Challenges of Rapid Growth

by Joel Putnam | Mar 7, 2017 | #GOBK in the Media

If you haven’t noticed already, we are living through a movement moment. Triggered by the election of Donald Trump and his combustive personality and policy moves, millions of Americans are in motion, forming and joining groups, rallying, signing and sharing...

Huffington Post: “Get Organized Brooklyn,” A Model For Community-Based Resistance in the Trump Era

by Joel Putnam | Feb 28, 2017 | #GOBK in the Media

Here’s one model of community mobilization for progressives across the nation. It can be adapted by faith communities, local officials, and citizens. It relies on face-to-face community gatherings, and uses social media not to drive, but to support, sustain and...

[FR] La Libre Belgique: Comment les Américains s’organisent pour résister à Trump

by Joel Putnam | Feb 27, 2017 | #GOBK in the Media

De nombreux Américains s’organisent pour résister aux politiques du nouveau locataire de la Maison-Blanche. La pression est quotidienne sur les élus. En 2009, les Républicains avaient mené des opérations similaires face à la politique d’Obama. Ce lundi de février,...

AM New York: March for a Free Press held outside New York Times building in Manhattan

by Joel Putnam | Feb 26, 2017 | #GOBK in the Media

About 200 activists stood in silence outside The New York Times’ headquarters on West 41st Street in midtown Manhattan Sunday in a show of solidarity with the press… Jennifer Friedlin, spokeswoman for the group Get Organized BK!, which helped plan the...

The New York Times: Protesters Gather to Support the Press, From Fox News to The New York Times

by Joel Putnam | Feb 26, 2017 | #GOBK in the Media

On Sunday morning, the time when many engage in the weekend ritual of reading the news over coffee, a large crowd converged outside The New York Times’s Manhattan headquarters on Eighth Avenue to defend the country’s press. “It’s a New York Sunday tradition,” read a...

The New York Times: New Yorkers Rediscover Activism in the Trump Presidency Era

by Joel Putnam | Jan 20, 2017 | #GOBK in the Media

Early on Tuesday evening, as a shivering rain fell, Nelini Stamp stood outside the headquarters of Goldman Sachs on West Street in Lower Manhattan in a waterproof poncho, her sleeping bag, protected by plastic, close at hand. An alumna of Occupy Wall Street who...