<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div class="row"><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-offset-1 col-sm-7 col-md-6"><div class="content"><p><strong><em><br></em></strong></p><p><strong><em><br></em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Beautiful Rising</em></strong> will be a modular toolkit of creative activism assembled by activists, organizers and troublemakers across the global south<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="https://www.beautifulrising.org/call-for-submissions/#fn:1" class="footnote">1</a></sup>
and launching spring 2016. If you’re involved in innovative, creative
activism and want to work with us to document your successes (and
failures!) for others to learn from them, <strong>we want to hear from you</strong>.</p>
<p>We are seeking pitches for short, focused entries (ranging from 200 to 1,000 words) on the following:</p>
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<p><strong>stories</strong> of change and resistance — both
successes and failures that illustrate the tools, tactics and principles
of effective, creative activism (for example, <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/06/uganda-students-smuggle-pigs-into-parliament-2014619135814262144.html">activists in Uganda smuggling pigs into Parliament</a></p>
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<p>effective <strong>tactics</strong> of creative activism (flash mobs, divestment, creative distruption, pots-and-pans protests, etc.)</p>
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<p>insightful <strong>principles</strong> of creative activism (design guidelines of movement building and action planning)</p>
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<p>useful <strong>tools</strong> for strategic campaigning and action planning (e.g. pillars of power, points of intervention, etc.)</p>
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<p><strong>big ideas</strong> about how the world works and how we change it (direct action, neoliberalism, hegemony, etc.).</p></li></ul>
<h2 id="how-to-contribute">How to contribute</h2>
<p>If you are interested in contributing, please fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-XFgje3WdcbPexjJ3C_LeeHEFzl4HbTmA6cpqgxGeBc/viewform">this simple form</a> or email your idea to dave at beautifultrouble.org <strong>before October 31, 2015</strong>
and we’ll follow up. If your pitch is accepted, we’ll work closely with
you through an intensive, collaborative editing process. Contributors
of published, longer-form modules will be paid for their work.</p>
<p>If you know someone who would have valuable stories and ideas to
contribute, or some topic that should be included in the toolbox, please
share this call for submissions with them, or send those suggestions
our way and we’ll follow up.</p>
<h2 id="about-the-project">About the project</h2>
<h5 style="margin-left: 5%" id="like-art-revolution-is-an-important-dimension-of-uniquely-human-activity-a-form-of-species-constitutive-behavior-that-contains-its-own-grammar-and-logic">“Like
art, revolution is an important dimension of uniquely human activity, a
form of species-constitutive behavior that contains its own grammar and
logic.”</h5>
<h4 style="text-align: center" id="george-n-katsiaficas-asias-unknown-uprisings-vol-ii">—George N. Katsiaficas, <em>Asia’s Unknown Uprisings, Vol. II</em></h4>
<p><strong><em>Beautiful Rising</em></strong> is convening front-line
activists and movements from across the global south to distill the most
effective approaches and latest innovations in creative activism. The
Beautiful Rising toolbox will launch in spring 2016 in a range of online
and offline/print formats.</p>
<p><strong><em>Beautiful Rising</em></strong>, a partnership between
ActionAid and Beautiful Trouble, is working directly with activists in
Myanmar, Bangladesh, Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Middle East/North Africa
region, and has convened an Advisory Network of leading practitioners in
social movement activism and technology. We aim to showcase the best
examples of creative activism at work in the majority world, partnering
directly with grassroots activists to help them illuminate the
principles, practices and tactics of effective creative activism they
have developed — and to disseminate the resulting toolkit to
change-makers worldwide.</p>
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<p>Following Vijay Prashad, we use the term <em>global south</em> provisionally, to refer “not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism” (<em>The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South</em>, AK Press, 2003.) <a href="https://www.beautifulrising.org/call-for-submissions/#fnref:1" class="reversefootnote">↩</a></p>
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<h3 id="about-the-initiating-organizations"><strong>About the initiating organizations:</strong></h3>
<p><a href="http://actionaid.org/"><img src="https://www.beautifulrising.org/img/aa-logo.png" title="ActionAid"></a></p>
<p><strong>ActionAid</strong> is an international organization based in
Johannesburg that works with over 15 million people in 45 countries for a
world free from poverty and injustice.</p>
<p><a href="http://beautifultrouble.org"><img src="https://www.beautifulrising.org/img/bt-logo.png" title="Beautiful Trouble"></a></p>
<p><strong>Beautiful Trouble</strong> is a <a href="http://beautifultrouble.org/the-book/">book</a>, <a href="http://beautifultrouble.org">web toolbox</a>, and international network of artist-activist <a href="http://beautifultrouble.org/trainings">trainers</a> whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective.</p>
<p><em>For more information, contact project manager Søren Warburg at swa(at)ms.dk</em></p>
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