Get Up, Stand Up: What Actions Move the Needle?
Climate One
The Importance of Distributed Organizing in Climate Action
In your book, American Resistance, you wrote about distributed organizing a bottom-up approach to organizing that relies on technology to mobilize and connect people. What lessons can be learned from distributed organizing and how could it be used effectively by climate organizers? That is such a great question. The challenge of distributed organizing is using the technology to connect people in ways that then matter on the ground where we live as well as digitally connecting us to a global network of activists. If we look at what Greta Thunberg started and the Fridays for Future folks have continued by connecting people digitally, connecting them to call for an action,. But notice that besides during COVID, those actions were in person where people actually
