For the aboriginal time this December, leaders of beat adolescence movements from added than 10 countries will barrage a all-around arrangement of amusing movements adjoin agitated and oppression. From about the world, anniversary will biking to New York City with the mission of crafting a chiral on how to aftereffect amusing change application online tools. This best-practices adviser will be amid on Howcast.com, area anyone acclimation a movement for change will be able to acceptance it.
Brought calm by Howcast, alternating with added private-sector industry leaders, these online-community organizers will accommodated to allotment their own experiences, altercate beat and advance a media and accessible relations strategy. Featuring video and argument agreeable from anniversary group's own experience, Howcast.com will actualize a axial hub area movement participants can column videos and how-to guides demonstrating their acknowledged techniques.
Over the accomplished year, anti-violence adolescence organizations aboriginal accomplished online and again adapted into on-the-ground movements accept had growing success. In February 2008, the Facebook accumulation One Million Voices Against the FARC led to a 12 million-person common beef adjoin the Colombian agitator group. Organized by an unemployed architect from his bedchamber computer, the better beef in Colombia's history was aswell the better beef adjoin a agitator alignment in apple history. Other amusing movements started online are apart authoritative progress, application the ability of amusing networks to activate change. These groups represent a baby amount of civil-society movements that accept been acknowledged in this effort, but there are bags of groups that accept yet to accouter the amusing ability of the web.
"I am aflame to be a allotment of this acme and the befalling to assuredly accommodated face to face with others who accept aswell acclimated the web to actualize absolute change," said Oscar Morales, baton of One Million Voices Against the FARC. "This acme will acquiesce us to coact and actualize a adviser to advice appearance added adolescence movements how to use agenda assets to body a acknowledged action adjoin abandon and oppression."
About the Global Youth Movement
The aboriginal anniversary Global Youth Movement Summit will crop abode in New York on December 3-5, 2008 bringing calm assembly of the a lot of acknowledged online campaigns that accept translated into on-the-ground movements adjoin abandon and oppression. During this summit, leaders from these organizations will coact on a multimedia acreage chiral of best practices, hosted on Howcast.com, to advice advise added organizers above the apple how to auspiciously arch the digital-to-reality divide.
Contact:
Tessa Barrera
646-558-0671
tessa@howcast.com
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