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2015 Holiday Gift Guide For Activisty Families

Gift ideas from the author of A is for Activist and Counting on Community. aka. Gifts for Activists By Innosanto Nagara. Published on BuzzFeed, December 11, 2015 Before I start, I must of course acknowledge that not everyone shares the
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December 11, 2015 | By josh | Categories: News

Publishers Weekly: Seven Stories Board Books Address Social Justice

By Sally Lodge | Released in Publishers Weekly on July 28, 2015 “C is for Co-op….G is for Grassroots….J is for Justice!…” These are the lead-ins to three of the 26 entries in A Is for Activist, an alphabet board
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July 28, 2015 | By josh | Categories: News

Al Jazeera: Worker-owned tech cooperatives find a niche near Silicon Valley

The Bay Area has become home to a small but burgeoning community of democratically run tech cooperatives May 26, 2015 by Ned Resnikoff in Al Jazeera America In “The other Silicon Valley,” Al Jazeera takes a look at how California’s
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May 26, 2015 | By josh | Categories: News, Worker Co-ops

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 | 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 | Categories: Events & Updates, News

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