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'''Patrick Reinsborough''' is Co-Founder/Executive Director at [[Center for Story-based Strategy]] (formerly [[smartMeme]]) [[Oakland]], [[California]]. | '''Patrick Reinsborough''' is Co-Founder/Executive Director at [[Center for Story-based Strategy]] (formerly [[smartMeme]]) [[Oakland]], [[California]]. | ||
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| + | Patrick Reinsborough has been involved in campaigns for peace, the environment, and social justice for over twenty years. He co-founded the [[Center for Story-based Strategy]] (formerly [[smartMeme]]), in 2002 to explore the intersection of movement building, imagination and strategies to shift cultural narratives. Patrick is a campaigner, communications strategist, facilitator, and creative provocateur who has partnered with hundreds of high impact organizations to frame issues, strengthen alliances and win critical campaigns. He was previously the Organizing Director of the Rainforest Action Network where he mobilized thousands of people to confront corporations who destroy the environment and violate human rights. Patrick was also a prominent organizer, strategist and media spokesperson for the U.S. wings of the global justice and anti-war movements including helping to organize mass direct actions that shutdown the Seattle World Trade Organization meeting in 1999 and protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. He lives with his family in the SF Bay area.<ref>[http://www.storybasedstrategy.org/people.html Center for Story based Strategy bio, Accessed Dec 2015]</ref> | ||
==Ear to the Ground Project== | ==Ear to the Ground Project== | ||
Revision as of 05:27, 8 December 2015
Template:TOCnestleft Patrick Reinsborough is Co-Founder/Executive Director at Center for Story-based Strategy (formerly smartMeme) Oakland, California.
Activism
Patrick Reinsborough has been involved in campaigns for peace, the environment, and social justice for over twenty years. He co-founded the Center for Story-based Strategy (formerly smartMeme), in 2002 to explore the intersection of movement building, imagination and strategies to shift cultural narratives. Patrick is a campaigner, communications strategist, facilitator, and creative provocateur who has partnered with hundreds of high impact organizations to frame issues, strengthen alliances and win critical campaigns. He was previously the Organizing Director of the Rainforest Action Network where he mobilized thousands of people to confront corporations who destroy the environment and violate human rights. Patrick was also a prominent organizer, strategist and media spokesperson for the U.S. wings of the global justice and anti-war movements including helping to organize mass direct actions that shutdown the Seattle World Trade Organization meeting in 1999 and protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. He lives with his family in the SF Bay area.[1]
Ear to the Ground Project
- We would like to express our deep respect and appreciation for everyone who took the time to talk with us, and the organizations that generously hosted us during our travels. Interviews were confidential, but the following people have agreed to have their names listed for this publication:
Most of those listed were connected to Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
Patrick Reinsborough was among those on the list. [2]