Date and Time:
Saturday May 22, 10:15-11:15AM, Quest Business & Conference Center, Columbus, OH
Presenter: Benjamin Day, Executive Director, Healthcare-NOW!
Notes from Conference Participants:
Figuring out how to evaluate the progress of a social movement, we started with a discussion of the differences between campaigns and social movements. These are the whiteboard notes from peoples' comments:
Campaigns | Social Movements |
---|---|
Passion for pay | From the heart |
Short-term goals | Bottom-up |
Have money | Affects all society |
Top down | Continuous process |
More focused | Emerge out of precipitating event |
Depends on resources | Success depends on resources |
Lobbyists | Morality theme |
Paid staff | Ongoing battle |
Adversarial | Mostly volunteers |
More outcomes-based | Addresses systemic issues |
Slideshows, Photos, and Video:
Full video of the keynote:
"State of the Single-Payer Movement & Movement Action Planning" slideshow (click image to download as a Powerpoint file):
Graph of the 8 Stages of Social Movements (click to download as a PDF):
Additional article:
"The Movement Action Plan: A Strategic Framework Describing the Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements", by Bill Moyer, Spring 1987.