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One time I took action was when I participated in a BLM protest in my town. I went with my mom and a friend of mine and it was a pretty eye-opening experience. A question I have is how can we protect protesters and alternatively ensure a peaceful protest to keep everyone safe during the process. Another time that I took action on something I felt passionate about was for my birthday I requested all my party guests to bring all different supplies to donate to an animal shelter. All my party guests and I got to personally deliver the supplies to my local animal shelter and it was an extremely fun experience playing with the cats and dogs in the shelter with their brand new toys.

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A time that I took action was when red 4 ed happened. I participated in the walks and protests that happened locally. I spread the word in person and on socially media to increase awareness. A question I thought of was what make someone want to participate in a particular movement rather than every movement they agree with? What drives people to finally take action?

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A time when I used action was when I started posting "BLM" post on my instagram. This caused others to see my post and then they would post on their stories. Also when I played 2k20, they released new cloths which were "BLM" and "Say their names". When I wore those cloths, others were able to see that it was a problem.

A question I have is what makes people act on something? What are the causes to when people then act?

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A time I took action was when the teacher strikes were going on and my whole class and I stood outside our school with our teachers for the entire school day. It caught the attention of Fox 10 and a helicopter came and got a video of all of us standing as one.

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Back when Red4Ed happened I went to the protests held by the teachers with my friend and her mom we kept everyone hydrated and joined in to the chants they were doing to show we were fighting with them

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"three months of quarantine taught us to live online, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that it was what we saw online that sent us back onto the streets." I loved this quote because it depicts the time so well. I remember what was going on and what I was feeling at the time. I remember when I first saw a video of the protest it was the first time in a while I had seen that many people together.

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Three months of quarantine taught us to live online, so it's perhaps unsurprising that it was what we saw online that sent us back onto the streets. On May 25th, the circulation of video footage capturing George Floyd's murder by four Minneapolis police officers quickly incited local protests. Three nights later, our feeds streamed with live images of protesters burning Minneapolis's Third Police Precinct. In the course of June, uprisings expanded at unprecedented speed and scale-growing nationally and then internationally, leaving a series of now iconic images, videos, and exhortations in their wake. Every historic event has its ideal medium of documentation-the novel, the photograph, the television-and what we're witnessing feels like an exceptionally "online" moment of social unrest.

Indeed, the struggle in the public square has unfolded alongside a takeover of the virtual one. Amid cell-phone footage of protests and toppling statues, the Internet has been further inundated with what we might call activist media. Screenshots of bail-fund donations urging others to match continue to proliferate. Protest guides, generated from years of on-the-ground activist experience, are readily shared over Twitter and Instagram, telling readers how to blur faces in photographs or aid in de-arrests. There are e-mail and phone-call templates, pre-scripted and mass-circulated. Webinars about police abolition now constitute their own subgenre. And city-council meetings, which had already migrated to Zoom because of the pandemic, have come to host the hallowed activist tradition of town-hall agitation. (Well-timed appeals for the police department to "suck my dick," it turns out, can be as effective online as off.) As some of June's uprisings evolve into today's encampments, the long revolutionary summer of 2020-made all the longer by quarantine-continues apace online.

Some of this story may seem familiar. In " Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest," from 2017, the sociologist Zeynep Tufekci examined how a "digitally networked public sphere" had come to shape social movements. Tufekci drew on her own experience of the 2011 Arab uprisings, whose early mobilization of social media set the stage for the protests at Gezi Park, in Istanbul, the Occupy action, in New York City, and the Black Lives Matter movement, in Ferguson. For Tufekci, the use of the Internet linked these various, decentralized uprisings and distinguished them from predecessors such as the nineteen-sixties civil-rights movement. Whereas "older movements had to build their organizing capacity first," Tufekci argued, "modern networked movements can scale up quickly and take care of all sorts of logistical tasks without building any substantial organizational capacity before the first protest or march."

The speed afforded by such protest is, however, as much its peril as its promise. After a swift expansion, spontaneous movements are often prone to what Tufekci calls "tactical freezes." Because they are often leaderless, and can lack "both the culture and the infrastructure for making collective decisions," they are left with little room to adjust strategies or negotiate demands. At a more fundamental level, social media's corporate infrastructure makes such movements vulnerable to coöptation and censorship. Tufekci is clear-eyed about these pitfalls, even as she rejects the broader criticisms of "slacktivism" laid out, for example, by Evgeny Morozov's "The Net Delusion," from 2011.

"Twitter and Tear Gas" remains trenchant about how social media can and cannot enact reform. But movements change, as does technology. Since Tufekci's book was published, social media has helped represent-and, in some cases, helped organize-the Arab Spring 2.0, France's "Yellow Vest" movement, Puerto Rico's RickyLeaks, the 2019 Iranian protests, the Hong Kong protests, and what we might call the B.L.M. uprising of 2020. This last event, still ongoing, has evinced a scale, creativity, and endurance that challenges those skeptical of the Internet's ability to mediate a movement. As Tufekci notes in her book, the real-world effects of Occupy, the Women's March, and even Ferguson-era B.L.M. were often underwhelming. By contrast, since George Floyd's death, cities have cut billions of dollars from police budgets; school districts have severed ties with police; multiple police-reform-and-accountability bills have been introduced in Congress; and cities like Minneapolis have vowed to defund policing. Plenty of work remains, but the link between activism, the Internet, and material action seems to have deepened. What's changed?

The current uprisings slot neatly into Tufekci's story, with one exception. As the flurry of digital activism continues, there is no sense that this movement is unclear about its aims- abolition-or that it might collapse under a tactical freeze. Instead, the many protest guides, syllabi, Webinars, and the like have made clear both the objectives of abolition and the digital savvy of abolitionists. It is a message so legible that even Fox News grasped it with relative ease. Rachel Kuo, an organizer and scholar of digital activism, told me that this clarity has been shaped partly by organizers who increasingly rely on "a combination of digital platforms, whether that's Google Drive, Signal, Messenger, Slack, or other combinations of software, for collaboration, information storage, resource access, and daily communications." The public tends to focus, understandably, on the profusion of hashtags and sleek graphics, but Kuo stressed that it was this "back end" work-an inventory of knowledge, a stronger sense of alliance-that has allowed digital activism to "reflect broader concerns and visions around community safety, accessibility, and accountability." The uprisings might have unfolded organically, but what has sustained them is precisely what many prior networked protests lacked: preëxisting organizations with specific demands for a better world.

Some of this growth is simply a function of time. It has been seven years since Black Lives Matter was founded. Since then, groups such as the Movement for Black Lives-an explicitly abolitionist, anti-capitalist network that includes more than a hundred and fifty organizations-have lent unity and direction to a coalition that was once, perhaps, too diffuse to articulate shared principles. These groups have also become better at using the Internet to frame, formalize, and advance their agenda. As Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles write in "#HashtagActivism," social media provides a digital "counterpublic," in which voices excluded from "elite media spaces" can engage "alternative networks of debate." When moments of rupture occur, this counterpublic can more readily make mainstream interventions. Recent discourse about prison and police abolition might be the clearest example of a shift in the Overton window, though Bailey points even to "the language that we're hearing on television, white supremacy being named for what it is," as unimaginable just a few years ago.

What's distinct about the current movement is not just the clarity of its messaging, but its ability to convey that message through so much noise. On June 2nd, the music industry launched #BlackoutTuesday, an action against police brutality that involved, among other things, Instagram and Facebook users posting plain black boxes to their accounts. The posts often included the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter; almost immediately, social-media users were inundated with even more posts, which explained why using that hashtag drowned out crucial information about events and resources with a sea of mute boxes. For Meredith Clark, a media-studies professor at the University of Virginia, the response illustrated how the B.L.M. movement had honed its ability to stick to a program, and to correct those who deployed that program naïvely. In 2014, many people had only a thin sense of how a hashtag could organize actions or establish circles of care. Today, "people understand what it means to use a hashtag," Clark told me. They use "their own social media in a certain way to essentially quiet background noise" and "allow those voices that need to connect with each other the space to do so." The #BlackoutTuesday affair exemplified an increasing awareness of how digital tactics have material consequences.

Another example arrived on June 3rd, when Campaign Zero-a Black Lives Matter branch often associated with the activist DeRay Mckesson-launched a campaign, #8cantwait, to "reduce police violence." The campaign endorsed a reformist platform, which included banning choke holds and enforcing deëscalation training; it was widely circulated, and won support from names like Jon Lovett and Ariana Grande. By the end of that weekend, though, the campaign had been roundly criticized as too moderate-and perhaps even misleading, as many of its proposals had already been adopted-and it was abandoned by many within and without the B.L.M. movement. In response, a "group of abolitionist comrades," in the words of the human-rights lawyer Derecka Purnell, presented a competing campaign with its own hashtag: #8toabolition. The immense speed with which #8toabolition was born and broadcast illustrates the tactical efficiency of today's abolitionists. When I spoke to three of #8toabolition's co-writers-Mon Mohapatra, Reina Sultan, and Rachel Kuo-over Zoom, they told me that their campaign's demands were drafted by ten different activists in a shared Google doc in the course of twenty-four hours. That speed was enabled by the networks of trust and collaboration built through years of organizing.

These networks suggest that digital activism has entered a second act, in which the tools of the Internet have been increasingly integrated into the hard-won structure of older movements. Though, as networked protest grows in scale and popularity, it still risks being hijacked by the mainstream. Any urgent circulation of information-the same memes filtering through your Instagram stories, the same looping images retweeted into your timeline-can be numbing, and any shift in the Overton window means that hegemony drifts with it. You know something has gone wrong when the San Francisco 49ers post a #BlackoutTuesday box. From the renaming (and repainting) of " Black Lives Matter Plaza " by the mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, to ahistorical citations of Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s speeches, the discourse of Black struggle remains open to aggressive co-optation. The meme-ification of Breonna Taylor's death-in which calls to arrest her killers are prefaced by mundane observations about, say, the weather-may be the most depressing example yet of how social media can trivialize a movement.

In "Twitter and Tear Gas," Tufekci wrote, "The Black Lives Matter movement is young, and how it will develop further capacities remains to be seen." The movement is older now. It has developed its tactics, its messaging, its reach-but perhaps its most striking new capacity is a sharper recognition of social media's limits. "This movement has mastered what social media is good for," Deva Woodly, a professor of politics at the New School, told me. "And that's basically the meme: it's the headline." Those memes, Woodly said, help "codify the message" that leads to broader, deeper conversations offline, which, in turn, build on a long history of radical pedagogy. As more and more of us join those conversations, prompted by the words and images we see on our screens, it's clear that the revolution will not be tweeted-at least, not entirely.

Race, Policing, and Black Lives Matter Protests

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Three months of quarantine taught us to live online, so it's perhaps unsurprising that it was what we saw online that sent us back onto the streets. On May 25th, the circulation of video footage capturing George Floyd's murder by four Minneapolis police officers quickly incited local protests.

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A time I took action is when I took time to listen to my friends about why they don't support BLM. These 4 intellectuals have decided to not support BLM because they don't support the mission; they find it divisive and too politicized. From their perspectives and within the circles they find themselves in, they're often labeled as Non-Supporters and criticized for their viewpoints. Taking the time to hear my friends out, ask questions, and ask what they would do differently, all helped them feel as if their opinion wasn't so unpopular within a group that's centered around their representation. -JB

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A time I took action was when the #BLM movement first started. I created a poster and went to some protests to help show that I support them and what is happening is not right.
Question: What is the best way to help support a movement?

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A time I took action was when a student had unexpectedly passed away at our school. I along with some close friends set up activities during the week to help students who were struggling from the loss of a fellow companion. Things included, meditation during lunch, slotted time to talk to counselors, posting interactive posters around school trying to show that others are there for you. CN

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A time I took action was when a student had unexpectedly passed away at our school. I along with some close friends set up activities during the week to help students who were struggling from the loss of a fellow companion. Things included, meditation during lunch, slotted time to talk to counselors, posting interactive posters around school trying to show that others are there for you. CN

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A time that I took action was for the BLM movement in California. I was going to California for a vacation. My family made signs and protested for hours. I also took part in a protest in Arizona. I thought it was inspiring how many people came together to fight against injustice.
Question: what is the strongest way to take part in a movement?

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a time I took action was when the Stoneman Douglas shooting happened, a bunch of schools were walking out and taking a moment of silence during school hours. We stood in a circle peacefully as some of my classmates spoke on the situation.

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"When They Call you a Terrorist; A Black Lives Matter Memoir"

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This stood out to me because this unfortunately happens to this day. The criminal justice system is supposed to be just and judged by the crime committed not by race. It's supposed to be a system that everyone can depend on. "that prison wasn't for him. But it was Made for Richie? For Monte?..." I found this to be very powerful because it allows the reader to reflect on how unjust the criminal justice system can be. Question: If racism wasn't an issue would the criminal justice system be more fair? What other factors contribute to the system being flawed? -SP

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I found this week's readings about action, specifically with the Black Lives Matter movement, really fascinating. I'm currently taking an Honors course called Black Lives Matter in the Americas, and in that course, a lot of our readings so far have been about the theories and histories behind racism and institutionalized racism. In this class, we're reading a lot of more personal stories of action regarding Black Lives Matter and the impact of racism in our country. Learning about this movement from a theoretical perspective, and then adding to that by learning about it from a more personal, up-close perspective has been really illuminating for me! -SS

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This paragraph from "When They Call You a Terrorist; A Black Lives Matter Memoir" really stood out to me. There are so many double standards within our criminal justice system that are motivated by things like race and privilege, not to mention the institutionalized racism that exists within our police, criminal justice, and prison systems. Comparing what the judge was saying about prison not being made for Brock Turner with it being made for black men was really moving as well. -SS

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A quote that stood out to me was, "The speed afforded by such protest is, however, as much its peril as its promise." from Jane Hu's article in The New Yorker, "The Second Act of Social Media Activism". It stood out to me because as much as we can all agree that social media is beneficial in means of spreading information quickly and building up organizations without a concrete backing, there are negative effects. There is so much content swirling around social media it's hard to know what is real and what is fake. It's very easy for people to create fake gofundme fundraisers posing as a certain organization and pocket all the money for themselves.

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Reflecting on acting and seeing situations now, I can see how even though you fight for the correct thing people will still judge and tell you otherwise so fight. I am an FSHD major, and we learn that we can’t control the world, that everyone has a different perspective than you and others. For that reason, everyone has the right to express themselves freely. Q: Imagine if everyone thought the same, what would life look like?

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Reflecting on acting and seeing situations now, I can see how even though you fight for the correct thing people will still judge and tell you otherwise so fight. I am an FSHD major, and we learn that we can’t control the world, that everyone has a different perspective than you and others. For that reason, everyone has the right to express themselves freely. Q: Imagine if everyone thought the same, what would life look like?

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"They use social media to amplify their voices, and they inspire a nation of organizers, including me" (Khan-Cullors, Patrisse and Asha Bandele, 167).

"How will the protest be organized? Who will get the word out? Once people show up, what will they eat? Where will they sleep or use the toilet? Who will take care of any ill or wounded? How are donations organized Who makes the signs?
In the past decade, digital tools have made this work much easier to undertake, and to organize in a more horizontal and egalitarian manner" (Tufekci, Zeynep, 50).

The engagement social media brings and the way it acts as a megaphone for those looking to be heard and in the social movements such as BLM and other movement/ protests it seemed like social media gave everyone a realistic view on what was going on in the world and where, providing new perspectives for individuals wishing to connect to others in support of making change somehow where it is needed. This article goes further into how the digital environment is affecting social movements and their evolution.  Social media as a tool for social movements: the effect of social media use and social capital on intention to participate in social movements - Hwang - 2015 - International Journal of Consumer Studies - Wiley Online Library

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This quote is from the "When They Call You a Terrorist; A Black Lives Matter Memoir." It stood out to me because something so simple as thriving in life can be stripped away from birth if your skin color is not white. The emotional aspect of an entire group of people collectively crying about their shared experience is so powerful.

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1) This quote stood out to me because it shows how desperate society is for change. It also reflect the author's hope in her movement and how important it is.

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2) https://www.forbes.com.mx/women-vivas-y-libres-una-campana-que-resalta-la-diversidad-del-movimiento-feminista/

A feminism campaign.

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the quote I picked was from  “The Second Act of Social-Media Activism.” the quote that stood out to me most was “Twitter and Tear Gas” I think social media has a huge positive and negative impact on our life. in connection to our lesson today social media is a great way to get your voice out there in the world but action such as peaceful protests, marches and movements is what will make the difference. the bad part as we have seen in many examples is people getting tear gassed for no reason at all. This is why that quote stood out to me most. Back home I walked in the "me too" movement in support of survivors of sexual abuse. This meant a lot to me as I had friends who had those horrific experiences and I was there giving them my support and supporting all woman.

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One quote that stood out to me was "...Killed a black boy and was not going to be charged" (Khan, 2017). This struck me because this simple statement demonstrates pure injustice. If if it was any boy killed it would still be alarming but the detail that is was a black boy points to potential racism. One time I took action was when I was in leadership class. A month prior to Christmas we had been collecting toy donations as a school then when the time came, we went to our sister school to give the gifts to all the students there. We spent the day with the younger children and also gave them milk and cookies along with their gifts. One question I have is: What is the best way to work towards overall equality? One connection I made to previous class material is the idea of story-telling and autobiographies. Although the circumstances of this situation are unfair, a story can we told and shifted to be used in a positive way. One movement I personally care about is Kids Against Hunger. This is an organization that my family has supported for as long as I can remember.
https://www.kidsagainsthunger.org

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"Where were these representatives when white guys shot us down?"

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"Where were these representatives when white guys shot us down?"

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Representation has always been an issue for minorities specifically people of color. There will never be enough to represent the pain, losses, disrespect and discrimination that people are living through and had lived through. Protesting and participating in a community even if it is only a hashtag helps represent only a sliver of what minorities have to go through. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AY-JyyUp-ItLQeWKEeblFmJhKYCeszyz/view)

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A time when I took action was for the BLM movement right after the incident with George Floyd. I joined the protest they had at the University of Arizona to help fight against the injustices happening in our world at that time and honestly in general because this is something that happens everyday. It was amazing to see how many people came together to stand against and fight for change. -Zyanya Salinas

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I cannot count how many marches, protests, disruptions, and justice calls that I have been a part of. From birth I took part in Pride Parades with my mother... this went on to a career in social justice and political activism. One of my most memorable marches was the Families Belong Together march in June of 2018 in Nogales, AZ. The march was a demonstration against the separation of families at the Border and in US detention/holding facilities. The march brought together families, social activists, political activists, clergy, and many other groups. We ended up blocking the DiConcini Port of Entry in Nogales for over 2 hours as we presented our demands to local decision-makers and national press. (Shasta)

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I cannot count how many marches, protests, disruptions, and justice calls that I have been a part of. From birth I took part in Pride Parades with my mother... this went on to a career in social justice and political activism. One of my most memorable marches was the Families Belong Together march in June of 2018 in Nogales, AZ. The march was a demonstration against the separation of families at the Border and in US detention/holding facilities. The march brought together families, social activists, political activists, clergy, and many other groups. We ended up blocking the DiConcini Port of Entry in Nogales for over 2 hours as we presented our demands to local decision-makers and national press. (Shasta)

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From “When they Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” a quote that stood out to me was, “ Suspensions, for example, did little to move young people to wholeness or better performance… Black children were far more at risk, suspended at nearly four times the rate of white students despite similar behavior problems.” To me this is very problematic. I feel that there should be a better way at handling disruptive students rather than just keeping them away from school, because it won’t solve the issue at all. Especially with the fact that Black children are suspended at a higher rate than whites is very alarming and I believe that there needs to be a change.

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Something I do and still do from time to time is going to the store and buying toiletries, food, baby necessities and clothes to take to an orphanage in Mexico. We like to spread the word to get anyone willing to help, these children out.

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Something I do a few times a year is send a bunch of clothes and shoes to Mexico. Whether it be new or used clothes/shoes. I always make sure that these items get disbursed to the kids that really need it or possibly don't have as much as they should.

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I have been apart of multiple movements but one that stuck out to me was over the summer there was a peaceful protest for Black Lives Matter at my capital in NH. It was so amazing to see all these people from all different backgrounds to come try and make a difference in our society. Also creativeness of the posters, shirts and other objects to represent their own experience or someone else's was so interesting.

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A time I took action was during a group project for my architecture class. During the design process my group encountered a few difficulties with the project and with each other and was discouraged. I decided to hold a group "therapy" to have us express our feelings towards each other and towards the project, and that way we were able to re-motivate the group and produce a great project.
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A quote that stood out to me was by Tufekci, where she mentions how a group defending the status quo only has to “create enough confusion to paralyze people into action”. This quote stood out to me as it goes to prove how as long as someone seems confident enough, they are easily able to convince others their ideas are correct.

A question I was thinking about is how can we limit the access of technology so that it is not wrongly used to influence others? This reminds me of censorship and not allowing others to voice their opinions. It is especially tricky online because we do not all have the same beliefs, yet all want to express our thoughts.

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A time when I took action was for the BLM movement, I lived in Colorado at the time and I went to the many protests to help stand against the inequality and injustices. I was able to see a lot of people come together to help make a change. These protests really help open peoples eyes to see what's wrong with our society, and how working together and protecting each other is key to change.

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“At a more fundamental level, social media’s corporate infrastructure makes such movements vulnerable to coöptation and censorship.” I have been following the chalkback organization for a very long time, it uses its social media platform to spread their message to people who are not there to see it in person. It originated in New York City and now has spread globally. It spreads awareness of catcalling and street harassment. People can send in what has been said to them.

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and ultimately denormalize catcalling.

Chalk Back is an international youth-led movement committed to ending gender-based street harassment with public chalk art, digital media and education. We write stories of harassment word-for-word in the spots where they happened alongside the hashtag #stopstreetharassment using sidewalk chalk and then post on social media to spur dialogue and story sharing. Through our local Instagram sites, community events, and anti-harassment workshops, Chalk Back members seek to influence bold cultural change within our communities.

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Chalk Back is a rapidly growing collective of more than 150 activists fighting for equal access to public space. Based on the Instagram account "@catcallsofnyc," each Chalk Back account is called "@catcallsof" and the location. Chalk Back is completely youth-led. 88% of participants are under the age of 25 and 54% are under the age of 18. We believe young people have the power to use hands-on activism to address issues they are facing.

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Chalk Back activities span 6 continents, 49 countries, and 150 cities. There are Chalk Back Instagram sites based in cities, i.e. "Catcalls of NYC," "Catcalls of London," "Catcalls of Cairo," and "Catcalls of Delhi," and sites based in university and high school campuses, i.e. "Catcalls of Calabasas High School" and "Catcalls of University of the West Indies." Young activists tailor the idea to what is best for their community, as harassment is different based on context.

We want to work with you to create change in all of our communities.

See below different ways you can get involved and examples of work we have been doing.

16 Days of Activism is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls.

It runs from November 25th through December 10th. Check out our social media campaign to address street harassment and gender-based violence through chalk art.

We want to work with you to create change in all of our communities.

See below different ways you can get involved and examples of work we have been doing.

There are now accounts all around the world working to raise awareness against and eradicate street harassment. You can find out more about them below.

So you want to set up your own account? We look forward to working with you! We love seeing more and more representation worldwide, this is a truly global issue and movement.

1. Search and see if there is an account in your city. If there isn't, then great, go ahead and make one using the format @catcallsofyourcityname. If there is and you still want to get involved that's great too! DM the account holder. Most of us are running accounts alone in big cities so the extra help would be appreciated.

2. To join the movement please fill in the below linked form. Note, if there is already an account in the area you want to set up in we will connect you with that account holder and they will take it from there.

3. We take your privacy seriously, and all information requested is for authenticity verification purposes only.

Welcome to our Interactive MIL Toolkit!

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This is an interactive space for young activists in the Chalk Back network and those who want to join to think critically about how to use MIL to improve and expand their work.

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Our MIL Toolkit includes instructions on how to "Chalk Back" effectively, different ways to create awareness campaigns on social media, tips on confronting online harassment, and guides to practicing self care when using media.

We believe that activism and education should be fun. We love using creative methods to share stories, build community, and change the culture of gender-based violence. This Toolkit provides mentorship and guidance on how to use social media responsibly and participate in activism in a sustainable way. See below for tips and tricks on how to create content and fight discrimination responsibly.

We have received campaign coverage all over the world.

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An international youth-led movement committed to ending gender-based street harassment with public chalk art

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A  # movement on twitter/instagram  #iamvanessaguillen - an act now passed by senate which is the Vanessa Guillen Act and The Brandon Act which is addressing Sexual Assualt and Mental Health in the Military. -IA

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During the black lives matter movement, I was in Los Angeles taking part in the stand against injustice. My best friend was a photographer for the whole event and created some viral pictures from the scenes. https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/socal-connected/clip/trevor-jackson-protest-video

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 A connection that I would like to make to other classes is this idea of action along with the idea of story. Such as with Professor Thomas, she had to take action in order to be able to find the story of these people. 

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 A connection that I would like to make to other classes is this idea of action along with the idea of story. Such as with Professor Thomas, she had to take action in order to be able to find the story of these people. 

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Something that I have done and still do to take action is I make “blessing bags” and these are bags that I fill with water, food, socks, and other necessities and I hand these out to homeless that I see.

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Something that I have done and still do to take action is I make “blessing bags” and these are bags that I fill with water, food, socks, and other necessities and I hand these out to homeless that I see.