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The Three Main Organizing Areas of Cyberquilting
The three organizing areas are: Ending Violence Against Women of Color, Envisioning A Better Tomorrow, and Media Justice. Each organizing area is interconnected and complex because each component encompasses essential resources for the development of social movements: activism/contentious politics, cognitive engagement/dissidence, and skill development.
This online organizing area creates an online
space where women of color who are
committed to ending violence against women
of color can meet, strategize, and share resources.
This organizing area creates an online space where women of color
work together to create visions of better world through various artistic
mediums.
This organizing area creates an online space where women of color
will use education, activism, and alternative sources of information to
work with other media justice activist to etch out what media justice
is and how it can be used to help scholars, activists, artists, groups, and
organizations to further their social justice work.
Goals and Objectives of the Cyber Quilting Experiment
- To be a cyber resource center for women of color who are committed to social justice work.
- To lay the internet groundwork for future collaborations and social movement activities.
- To find creative ways to make the internet and cyber resources available for the masses.
- To develop a comprehensive database of women of color organizations,community groups,activist, scholars, and artist
- To develop an archival space where individuals and groups can download or view “How To” (i.e. put on a grassroots fund raiser, how to stage artistic protest, how to put on a conference, etc.)
- To create internet spaces where activist can meet and talk about who they are, what is the work that they do, what would they like to see happen, and how can they collaborate to make it happen.
- To educate scholars, activist, community groups on how to use various internet technologies.
- To create a Skill Share Intergenerational Technology Protest Workshop
- To find creative ways to make the internet accessible and safe for individuals, communities, and groups committed to social justice (i.e. Regional/quadrant cyber houses/ libraries with internet access).
- To use various Web 2.0 technologies such as video conferencing, Google groups, Google documents, movie-making websites, blogs, list serves, phone conferences, Youtube, marketing newsletters, Twitter, digital worlds (i.e. Second Life), Adobe Connect U, Ning, Oovoo, networks cites (i.e. Friendster, Facebook, and Myspace) as mechanism for social justice organizing.
- To create an activist social networking site (i.e. Activist Facebook) for Women of Color.
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How can the internet be used
creatively to organize?
Look what Aishah Simmons did!
