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Movements.org and Cofounder Jared Cohen featured in GQ France!
Movements.org cofounders Jason Liebman and Jared Cohen featured in Men's Journal!
Check out our cofounder Jason Liebman in the May edition of Fast Company! "Fast Talk/Techplomacy: Jason Liebman"
Podcast for Movements.org's panel at SXSW, Lessons Learned from the 'Arab Spring Revolutions', now available.
Watch Susannah Vila discuss, "The Internet and Uprisings in the Arab World" on the Wired panel at Social Media Week NYC (February, 2011)
Selected Press
"of the New York City-based organization [Movements.org] that began in 2008 with the mission to help support advocates and activists using technology" (February 9, 2011)
"File this under: Timing is still everything. Just in time to help organize Egyptian grassroots activists with restored Internet access, the Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM) has rebranded itself as Movements.org, an online hub for digital activists."(February 3, 2011) Read full article »
"Movements.org, launched officially yesterday, is a hub for politically-engaged citizens to connect as well as a place to learn all of the tools in the activist toolkit." (February 2, 2011) Read full article »
"The event was squarely focused on the power of social media and other connective technology like SMS as an organizing tool, and carried no one particular political agenda beyond 'pushing against repression, oppression, and violent extremism'.” (February 1, 2011) Read full article »
"It's [Movements.org's London Summit] an inspiring event, geared towards helping activists share top-level information and making connections that lead to significant change." (March 10, 2010) Read full article »
"The second summit of Alliance of Youth Movements is already underway in Mexico City. It's exploring how the use of new mobile technologies is fundamentally changing the role of the individual in global terms, while redefining civil society."(October 18, 2009) Read full article »
Video
Movements.org's Jason Liebman on CNN (February 16, 2011)
Movements.org's Jason Liebman on Fox News (February, 2011)
From Our Blog
Inagural AYM Summit and Egypt's Shabab 6 Movement
(February 1, 2011) If you follow Movements.org at all, you've noticed that our network is made up of grassroots activists from around the world.... »
Expanding the Pie: Three Questions for Nicholas Kristof
(June 30, 2010) AYM's Susannah Vila interviews Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times... »
(June 30, 2010) Welcome to the new home of the Alliance for Youth Movements!... »
Press Releases
(New York, NY - October 11, 2011)
Movements.org Launches an Online Hub for Digital Activism
(New York, NY - February 1, 2011)
Alliance for Youth Movements Announces London Summit
(New York, NY - February 3, 2010)
Alliance for Youth Movements Announces its Second Annual Summit in Mexico City
(New York, NY - October 1, 2009)
Alliance for Youth Movements Summit
(New York, NY - October 28, 2008)
Newsletters
May, 2011 "Help Us Plan Our 2011 Activists Gathering"
April, 2011 "Movements.org Marketplace"
March, 2011 "Launch Media Roundup"
Februrary, 2011 "Movements.org is Officially Launched"
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