Political Marketing
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In the spirit of #buildinpublic, and supporting the move towards distributed organising, this political swipefile is for people like you. If you’re not familiar with the idea of a swipefile, think of it in this instance, as a sort of compendium of strategic and creative approaches to small campaign activism and community politics. You’ll find a bunch of easy to use Notion templates to get you started, plus a ton of creative campaign swipefiles to help you jump somewhere new. Hope it’s helpful in some small way.
At the same time, talking with people, knowing them, creating relationships, and building leaders is what has, and will, advance any progressive movement. We know that building authentic relationships with and between people is the best way to help people shift their view of themselves relative to their work and community. Real relationships also allow organisers to best identify leaders---which helps win, propel and sustain progressive policies and ideals. We know that much of the work of organising is about building robust networks based on trust and knowing that we have each other’s back. It’s about seeing, knowing and honouring our humanity and the rights that come with it.
Where we know the importance of high-attention short-term events like elections, voter engagement pushes, and community outreach. The challenge in whatever group you find yourself in now is to shape these moments into long-term power building opportunities for your community so that when you have a candidate - you're ready to go with not just a base of supporters, but a mechanism of how to engage and activate those supports for impact. As we see the increasing emergence of independent political groups and disruptive campaign teams unseating supposedly "safe" candidates . . what we're seeing is this exciting intersection of distributed political organising and technology, together with grassroots community action . . all coming together.
<aside> ⚡ Opportunity sits at the intersection between grassroots political organising + technology.
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