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2014: Building Websites, Building Our Office, Building Movements

2014 was a year of growth for Design Action Collective. We continued to develop our skills and services, we moved into a new space we constructed ourselves, and deepened our connections with other media makers and social justice organizations. 47
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January 29, 2015 | By josh | Categories: Events & Updates, News

Design Action member Sabiha Basrai talks about millennials and civic engagement on Al Jazeera’s AJ+

Can you be too plugged-in and self-interested? Not according to these three millennials. AJ+ asked Parker from Electronic Frontier Foundation, Sabiha from Design Action Collective and Justin from Dropbox why this generation could be the one to create a more
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November 20, 2014 | By sabiha | Categories: News

Ferguson October

Design Action Collective is proud to have been able to support organizers on the ground in Ferguson and St Louis, Missouri in their work to demand justice for Mike Brown, a Black youth who was shot and killed by Darren
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October 29, 2014 | By Design Action Collective | Categories: Case Studies, Events & Updates, News

The 2014 Elections

This fall Design Action Collective supported a number of electoral campaigns in Oakland and San Francisco. Measure FF in Oakland would lift up the minimum wage to $12.25/hr. Prop G in San Francisco would reign in real-estate speculators from evicting
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October 28, 2014 | By josh | Categories: Case Studies, Events & Updates, News

Rebal Legacy: Activist Art from South Asian California, October 2014–March 2015

The San Francisco Bay Area has long been distinguished as a center of important radical organizing and art by communities of color. Kearny Street Workshop itself is the product of Asian Pacific American activists and artists coming together during the
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October 27, 2014 | By Design Action Collective | Categories: Events & Updates, News

Brandy Martell’s Story

Brandy Martell’s Story, A Case Study of Design and Accountability Photo by Tiffany Woods. Brandy Martell, a 37 years old transgender woman was gunned down and killed a few blocks from our office in Oakland in April 2012. Brandy worked
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August 8, 2014 | By Design Action Collective | Categories: Case Studies

Money For Our Movements Designing for the Left Session

Download DesignAction_MFOM_Presentation from Money for Our Movements 2014, presented on August 2 in Baltimore, MD. Here are some points made during the session about designing your Fundraising Communications Design is not just a pretty picture and a nice font. Often
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August 4, 2014 | By Design Action Collective | Categories: Case Studies

Oakland Local: Oakland’s Solidarity Economy

Eric James Anderson | Published in Oakland Local on July 25, 2014 If I let on that, here in Oakland, there is a graphic design business, a bakery, a design-build firm, a business incubator and a bicycle courier company that
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July 25, 2014 | By josh | Categories: News, Worker Co-ops

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