The 5 R’s – Five Simple Ways to Celebrate International Women’s Day

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1. Rights – Affirm today and every day that girls’ and women’s rights are inalienable human rights.

 

2. Respect – Model respect for women, and yourself, by not dissing, degrading or using demeaning language. Is it really so cool to call everyone “bitch?”

 

3. Renew – Dust [...]

March 8th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Advocacy, Human Rights, Social Justice, Women's Rights | Leave a comment

Occupy Wall Street Disrupts More Than Traffic

Nearly everyone seems engaged by the Occupy Wall Street protests and their spread around the world.

I am heartened somewhat to see that the media has finally begun to show some respect. The tenor of recent coverage has become a bit more objective—particularly when compared to the derisive tone it took at the beginning. [...]

October 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: strategic communications | Leave a comment

Montpelier, Vermont – After the Great Flood

I had been feeling really low after traveling to Vermont and seeing the horrendous damage done by Hurricane Irene’s flooding.  Roads and bridges were swept away and more importantly, people’s homes and livelihoods destroyed. I saw countless acres of crops destroyed by polluted flood waters, home after home disgorged of all their former occupants’ [...]

September 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: strategic communications | One comment

The Egyptian Protests and Social Media

Wednesday, Malcolm Gladwell asked readers of The New Yorker “Does Egypt Need Twitter?” in light of the importance placed on the use of social media in organizing and documenting events as they’ve unfolded over the past week. Gladwell reasons the way we communicate between one another isn’t as important as why we do – [...]

February 4th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Advocacy, Human Rights, Online Engagement, Social Justice | Leave a comment