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Creative Leadership in Action
Real stories and practical insights from leaders putting creative strategy into practice Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 1-2pm ET on Zoom | Free Good leadership depends on creativity. When leaders have room for themselves and their teams to imagine new approaches, they create better tactics, build stronger collaborations, and stay in the work. Yet most
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Forging Anti-Fascist Futures Part 2: What For?
A Political Imagination Workshop applying Future Screenshots to strategic action After two inspiring offerings of Future Screenshots, Part 1 of Forging Anti-Fascist Futures, we’re excited to move into Part 2: What For? with Mushon Zer-Aviv. What For? will take place Monday, April 20, 2026 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET. Learn more below and
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Unstoppable Voters: Leaders Accelerator
Applications open for this career-advancing, campaign-winning opportunity Voter engagement work is some of the most important in civic life — and some of the most challenging. Often it’s trying to reach people who’ve tuned out, burned out, or been terribly marginalized and disenfranchised. Plus, the typical methods and tools are old, stale, and broken, and
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Back by Popular Demand: Forging Anti-Fascist Futures
A two-part political imagination workshop series At the start of the year, we offered Forging Anti-Fascist Futures: A Political Imagination Workshop to dream up a way forward. The workshop filled up almost immediately. Now we’re offering it again — and going deeper with a two-part series: Developed by Mushon Zer-Aviv, Future Screenshots is a method
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Case Studies: 6 Ways Progressive Movements Are Using Values-Aligned AI
What this technology looks like when it’s built by creative people who are actually in the fight. 1. DebunkBot One great example is Debunkbot, an AI tool that has the conversation you’ve been dreading with your uncle at Thanksgiving. The one about whatever conspiracy theory he’s onto now and all the details, unhinged arguments, gish-galloping –
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6 Thoughts About AI + a workshop
Ok fine. Let’s talk about AI. BUT FIRST, we have a free online workshop you can join where participants will get to use a new AI-based tool we’ve developed. Make the Dream Real with a Strong ObjectiveIn unstable times, clear goals and specific, detailed outcomes give us a sense of direction and purpose where creativity can take
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Creativity is Alive and Well
Recapping our “Finding Creativity When the Work Feels Heavy” Event On February 25, we dove into one of the most valuable but overlooked tools in social justice work: creativity. Alexia Kemerling of the American Association of People with Disabilities and Alexandra Leal Silva of Maremoto joined us to talk about imagination as a strategic resource
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Batman at City Council
It was a typical Council meeting until Batman showed up. Have you seen this Batman City Council video? It’s great. Recently Batman stood up at a Santa Clara City Council meeting and demanded action. The Super Bowl was being held in Santa Clara and Batman was obviously concerned about the other masked vigilantes in town:
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Finding Creativity When the Work Feels Heavy
An Event on How Imagination Can Help us Keep Going Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 3-4pm ET on Zoom | Free The work of organizing and advocacy is heavy, especially when progress is slow, the stakes are high, and the horrors keep coming. This public, participatory event is for people doing the work of change
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Forging Anti-Fascist Futures: A Political Imagination Workshop
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | 12pm ESTon Zoom | FREE | Workshop FULL No Longer Accepting Applications What if we could design “screenshots” from futures that don’t exist yet? What if we used imagined futures like these to stretch our political imagination, clarify what’s possible, and build stronger solidarity in the present? Imagining the future
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Give the Gift of Artistic Activism
A meaningful gift for someone you love. If you’re still searching for a last-minute gift or if you’re resisting the push to buy more things we don’t really need, I want to offer another possibility. Give the gift of creativity, courage, and change. Make a donation to the Center for Artistic Activism in honor of
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Fielded. Tested. Guided.
All we learned during our 2025 Field Tests Event What really works in advocacy right now? This year, we partnered with four of our favorite organizations to find out. Earlier today, we shared all we learned. Relive our dynamic hour with our partners American Association of People with Disabilities Be The Ones, Fair Count, and QLatinx
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