(crossposted to Future Majority)
The Green Lantern is running for Mayor of DC. Wait, what?
Yes, it’s true. Well, sort of true. I’m in DC right now, at a Campaign BootCamp run by the New Organizing Institute. I’m joined by five dozen promising progressive activists who have also traveled to D.C. to learn the ways of online organizing. We’ve been split into teams, each supporting a different superhero candidate for mayor, and we’re running a mock campaign that ends this Friday, July 10.
We’ve come up with some interested innovations in online organizing that I’d like to share with you.
Let’s take a look: