Activism for introverts
Uploaded by: Ulla Pötsönen
Objectives:
- Overcoming the fear of being in public or front light. Expanding the concept of environmental activism. Finding new ways to participate. Finding ones place in a setting of activities.
Preparation:
Tools needed: The list of 27 tools for environmental activism for introverts (see resources)
Description
A discussion about the different ways of environmental activism and types of people.
Participants can first share positive or negative experiences on previous events in a smaller group.
The list of tools can be read and discussed together or in smaller groups.
Adding to the list: what other ways to participate there can be?
Variations
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Resources
List modified from https://www.ilmastotoiminta.fi/
Environmental activism tools for introverts:
- Creating various media content (images, texts, videos, illustrations).
- Writing opinion pieces.
- Writing emails or tweeting to decision-makers.
- Signing and sharing petitions.
- Social media campaigning.
- Making climate memes: you can do it even under the covers.
- Groundwork, setting up, dismantling and cleaning up events.
- Doing background work and surveys for campaigns.
- Website and social media updates for organizations and campaigns.
- Curating and translating texts from other languages.
- Building websites and doing other technical work.
- Content production and analysis.
- Writing longer statements and summaries of other texts.
- Thinking about campaign strategy.
- Acting as an “observer”, atmosphere interpreter or well-being manager, who monitors the atmosphere in the audience, meeting or event, makes observations and collects valuable information.
- Photography and videography at events.
- Handing out flyers.
- Making coffee.
- Taking care of the well-being of volunteers.
- If you want to avoid chatting with people, you should learn to climb high with a banner. This is suitable if you are not afraid of heights and can work systematically with ropes.
- Making signs for demonstrations and other events.
- Reading and commenting on the notes of event planning meetings, if you don’t like to be present and loud in meetings.
- Media monitoring.
- Promoting events by sharing event pages created for them on social media: important for visibility.
- Sticking stickers in public places.
- Acting as an orderly at demonstration.
Comments
A TEDtalk about the topic Sarah Corbett: Activism needs introverts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coHWLitlm-U
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