[liberationtech] Fwd: Join our Online Conversation on Media Tactics for Social Change!

[Steven Clift]

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From: "Kristin Antin, New Tactics Online Community Builder" <kantin at cvt.org>
Date: Sep 16, 2013 1:00 AM
Subject: Join our Online Conversation on Media Tactics for Social Change!
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Communicating with people is central to creating social change and
defending human rights. The media can be a conduit for that communication -
allowing us to reach broad stakeholders and communities. However the media
also reflects power relationships in a society, with the most powerful
getting to have the biggest say. Media bias and corporate and state control
can be significant barriers to our communication efforts. In many societies
media is actually one of the pillars of power. The media can bolster or
undermine progress. It can make or break regimes. It can foster, or undo, a
culture of respect for human rights.

So how do we go about using the media in pursuit of human rights and social
and environmental justice? How do we influence the media to get them to
tell our story? How do we use the media to challenge stories of oppression
and exploitation? And when the mainstream media is closed off as a channel
for communication, how do we make our own media? We'll explore these
questions and others this week in the New Tactics community.
This conversation is an opportunity for social change agents and human
rights defenders to reflect on and share their approach to engaging the
media and learn new tactics from others. Join us for this and two more
discussions in our conversation series on building
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 *Next Conversation:* *Change the Story: Harnessing the power of narrative
for social change* Join the Center for Story-based Strategy (CSS) and the
New Tactics community for an online conversation on Change the Story:
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People and communities use stories to understand the world and our place in
it. These stories are embedded with power - the power to explain and
justify the status quo as well as the power to make change imaginable and
urgent. A narrative analysis of power encourages us to ask: Which stories
define cultural norms? Where did these stories come from? Whose stories
were ignored or erased to create these norms? And, most urgently, what new
stories can we tell to help create the world we desire?

This conversation will be an opportunity for human rights defenders to
learn more about story-based strategy and how to integrate it into campaign
planning. This is also an opportunity for those practitioners using
story-based strategy to share their experiences, questions, and ideas with
each other.

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  *Featured Resources for Engaging the Media* We have several case studies
written by New Tactics community members regarding their work engaging and
influencing media for social change:

   - E<http://newtactics.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=acc46cd2cef604ae60bd5355b&id=6c4b4779e2&e=d8e4b962d6>ngaging
   the Media: Building support for minimum wage
reform<http://newtactics.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=acc46cd2cef604ae60bd5355b&id=d1c2ba95e2&e=d8e4b962d6>-
The Korean Women Workers Associations United (KWWAU) effectively
engaged
   the media in their efforts to make changes to the minimum wage system in
   Korea. Read about their clever media tactics in this case study, available
   in English and French.
   - A Mock Tribunal to Advance Change: The National Tribunal on Violence
   Against Women in
Nigeria<http://newtactics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=acc46cd2cef604ae60bd5355b&id=236285201f&e=d8e4b962d6>-
BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, in collaboration with the Civil
Resource
   Development and Documentation Centre (CIRDDOC), highlighted violations of
   women’s rights in Nigeria that were viewed by the public as normal or even
   justifiable abuse. They used a mock tribunal to draw media attention and
   change public perceptions and beliefs regarding violations against women.
   They eventually changed public policy and law. This case study is available
   in English and Bengali.

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the media and build awareness around their issue.

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