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Should you make it official?
The pros and cons of creating a legal entity for your grassroots activism.
Photography can teach us a few things about having impact
The surprising parallels between photography and activism.
How to build a team of activists in a pandemic
A proven method for turning strangers into collaborators for a cause.
Video: a behind-the-scenes look at a successful grassroots campaign
What we did and what we learned -- from an activism project that had an impact in only four weeks.
Successful activism works like this
A post-mortem of a recent, local campaign I worked on to save a piece of Portugal’s natural beauty from private development.
e04: The grassroots battle to eliminate COVID
A dive into how grassroots groups are changing how we tackle COVID, with Vicky van der Togt, founder of the Zero Covid Alliance.
Introducing Campaign Accelerator
A new project I’m working on to support targeted, local, grassroots campaigns.
e03: Creative protest and how to build a movement
An inspiring, hands-on interview with the activist Radomir Lazovic, one of the founders of Don’t Let Belgrade Drown, a political movement that’s making big waves (!) in Serbia.
e02: Exposing the far-right
What do you do, when your country is holding the biggest trial of a Nazi party since Nuremberg, and the media can’t be trusted to cover it properly? I speak to Antonis Bougias of the Golden Dawn Watch grassroots journalism project in Greece, to find out.
e01: The state of digital activism
A debate with news curator Asteris Masouras on what online activism today is getting right – and how it could improve.
The grassroots revival of Greece?
A presentation I made on innovative citizens’ initiatives: how they work, and what we can learn from them.