Campaign Nonviolence Skillbuilding Webinar: Media Matters

June 29, 5-6:30pm Pacific / 6-7:30pm Mtn / 7-8:30pm Central / 8-9:30pm Eastern

$20, or sign-up for Action Week and get a free pass!

As we gear up for Campaign Nonviolence Action Week, Sept 18-26, let’s take a look at how to get great media coverage. Learn how to do skillful outreach. Dig into simple tricks for greater impact. Explore how to have fun while doing it. We’ll look at how everything from press releases to action roles can help get media to cover your actions and events. We’ll talk about the importance of social media (and how intergenerational organizing can help with this). We’ll dive into how using creativity and boldness in your action planning can make media outreach even easier. This is part of a series of skillbuilding webinars for Pace e Bene’s Campaign Nonviolence. All are welcome, but if you sign up for Action Week in September, it’s free!

Joining us will be Deborah Mathis, a former White House correspondent, nationally syndicated columnist, and television commentator and assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. After a fellowship at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, she turned her focus to the junction of public opinion, politics and public policy, specializing in communications and media relations at several nonprofit social justice organizations. She is the former director of communications for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Her first of six books, Yet A Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don’t Feel at Home (Warner 2002), received critical acclaim. She continues to write books about impactful Black lives and events that have been overlooked or marginalized by traditional historical accounts.

Mark your calendars for these other upcoming Campaign Nonviolence Skillbuilding Webinars:

($20/each or free to Action Week organizers)

July 27: Amplify With Art: Go big. Go bold. Here's how to infuse your Action Week plans with a burst of artivism. Why hold a tiny sign when you can hold an overpass banner? What about street murals or light projections?

Aug 31: Preparing For Protests: From sharpies to signs to water, here's what to bring (and not to bring) to your Action Week events.

Facilitated by Rivera Sun and Deborah Mathis

Rivera Sun

Deborah Mathis

ACTION ORGANIZERS GET YOUR FREE LINK HERE!

If you are planning an action during Campaign Nonviolence Action Week, get your free link to this workshop here. Be sure you’ve already signed up for Action Week on our Actions page already.

If you are not planning an action, you can register and pay on the form at the bottom of the page.