networked activism

There was much aflutter in New York City yesterday when a group of volunteer activists released and distributed a fake copy of The New York Times with a banner headline announcing the end of the Iraq War. Upon further examination, readers saw that the paper was postdated July 4, 2009. 

I spoke this morning to two organizers of the effort, Beka Economopoulos and Andy Bichlbaum, about how this massive effort (it took over a year to organize and hundreds of volunteers to pull off) was organized and successfully managed. (And it wasn't free.)

The effort was organized similarly to other networked activism efforts in that it had the following key components: Read more »