This project started as a small group trying to brainstorm about these issues:
1. Things are hard and getting worse. The rights of many individuals and communities are directly under attack and are suffering under current policy proposals based in racist, misogynist, anti-immigrant, transphobic, and xenophobic rhetoric.
2. More and more people are fired up and ready to fight for justice! We need ways to direct this new energy and power.
3. We need to disrupt complacency and normalization. We need ways for people to be ready for a long fight. How can this amazing mass of newly energized people build sustained, deeper engagement?
4. We don't need to start from scratch. How can we support all of the amazing organizations who have already been on the front lines, building this movement?
Movement Match was born from these questions and issues.
One thing we know for sure is that there are many groups and organizations that are ready to provide the training, community, and accountability that we’ll need to stay strong for the work ahead.
Our goal is to connect more people to existing activist groups to further build the strength of our movement and fight isolation, alienation, and complacency.
People are imperfect. Organizations are imperfect. Movements are imperfect.
But now is not the time for perfectionism. Now is the time to find your group, hunker down, and start planning the long game.
1. Things are hard and getting worse. The rights of many individuals and communities are directly under attack and are suffering under current policy proposals based in racist, misogynist, anti-immigrant, transphobic, and xenophobic rhetoric.
2. More and more people are fired up and ready to fight for justice! We need ways to direct this new energy and power.
3. We need to disrupt complacency and normalization. We need ways for people to be ready for a long fight. How can this amazing mass of newly energized people build sustained, deeper engagement?
4. We don't need to start from scratch. How can we support all of the amazing organizations who have already been on the front lines, building this movement?
Movement Match was born from these questions and issues.
One thing we know for sure is that there are many groups and organizations that are ready to provide the training, community, and accountability that we’ll need to stay strong for the work ahead.
Our goal is to connect more people to existing activist groups to further build the strength of our movement and fight isolation, alienation, and complacency.
People are imperfect. Organizations are imperfect. Movements are imperfect.
But now is not the time for perfectionism. Now is the time to find your group, hunker down, and start planning the long game.
Thank you to the following people for working on this campaign:
Matthew Primpas, Steven Du, Allison Neusch, Sonia Alexander, Talia Cooper, Grigory Ruzzis, Amelia Lo, Talia Baurer, Pippi Kessler, Rachel Marcus, Jessica Rosenberg, David Mahfouda, Rebecca Holtz, Franny Silverman, Mariel/Michal Boyarsky, Kerry Chaplin, Zahara Zahav, Jonah Spear, Abby Wambaugh, Gabbi Zutrau, Grigory Ruzis, Jennifer Fisher, Boyd Ingalls, Bob Schmidt, Kurt Schwind, Sarra Alpert and many more!
Interested in joining the Movement Match team? Email talia.cooper@gmail.com and rachel.sonia.alexander@gmail.com.
We are looking for people with the following experience:
Website and photography by Talia Cooper
Matthew Primpas, Steven Du, Allison Neusch, Sonia Alexander, Talia Cooper, Grigory Ruzzis, Amelia Lo, Talia Baurer, Pippi Kessler, Rachel Marcus, Jessica Rosenberg, David Mahfouda, Rebecca Holtz, Franny Silverman, Mariel/Michal Boyarsky, Kerry Chaplin, Zahara Zahav, Jonah Spear, Abby Wambaugh, Gabbi Zutrau, Grigory Ruzis, Jennifer Fisher, Boyd Ingalls, Bob Schmidt, Kurt Schwind, Sarra Alpert and many more!
Interested in joining the Movement Match team? Email talia.cooper@gmail.com and rachel.sonia.alexander@gmail.com.
We are looking for people with the following experience:
- team management
- activism and organizing
- website coding
- website design
- connection with cities not yet represented on Movement Match
Website and photography by Talia Cooper
