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How Ethical Community Leaders Are Driving Systemic Change Around the World
Mobilized News Editorial Feature At a time when cynicism toward politics is high and global systems appear rigged against the most vulnerable, a new kind of leadership is taking root—not in the corridors of power, but in the streets, […]
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Choose Local: February: Black History Month
“What Can I do? I’m just one person!” (Said Eight Billion People) Choose Black-Owned Campaign Planning Resources – 2025 Some quick details: Choose Black-Owned Month is February Ideas for: Independent business alliances, chambers, and other associations Black-owned businesses Locally owned […]
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Choose Local: March: Choose Indie Sustainable
Resources – 2025 Some quick details: Choose Indie Sustainable Month is March. Find a downloadable logo here. View and download our press release template. View social media examples. Add these hashtags to your posts: #chooseindiesustainable #chooseindielocal. Anyone anywhere can […]
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Choose Local: April: Move Your Money
Move Your Money: 2025 Campaign Planning Resources Move Your Money partners. About the Move Your Money Campaign From April 1 to April 30, our Move Your Money campaign works to increase investment in locally owned businesses and deposits at […]
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Choose Local: May: Bicycling Means Business Month
Making Ripples From May 1 to May 31, our Bicycling Means Business Month campaign promotes the connections between bicycling and healthy local economies. Together, we urge our communities to take positive action and boost the ripple effects our neighborhoods, towns, […]
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Choose Local: June: Indie Pride Month
From June 1 to June 30, our Choose Indie Pride Month campaign celebrates LGBTQ+-owned businesses, diversity, and equity. Together, we urge our communities to take positive action and boost the ripple effects our neighborhoods, towns, and cities receive when […]
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Choose Local: July: Independents Month
Some quick details: Independents Month is July. Find downloadable logos and images here. Use Canva? Check out our Proud Indie Local template, Indie Challenge template, and Independents Month Quote template. View and download our press release and proclamation templates. Adapt […]
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Choose Local: October: Eat Local
Making Ripples From August 1 to August 31, our Eat Indie Local campaign works to inspire all of us to eat more locally grown, raised, and made foods, meet the farmers, growers, and chefs behind our food, and learn new […]
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Local: November: Choose Indie Art Month
From October 1 to October 31, our Choose Indie Art Month campaign celebrates artists, artisans, musicians, and creativity. Together, we urge our communities to take positive action and boost the ripple effects our neighborhoods, towns, and cities receive when […]
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Supreme Court: Can sleeping be a crime?
Strange days….
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Honoring the passing of a Hero: Activist Jane McAlevey
Jane McAlevey’s whole-worker organizing model views workers and the community they live in as a whole: workers are part of the community, and community members engage in work. She explained, “What almost no union does is actually organize their members as […]
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How to Improve Soil Health Where you Are Now
Words: Permaculture Education.org Production: Mobilized News
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How to go Carbon Neutral in your Community
“Going Carbon Neutral” campaigns not only push for reduced energy usage and carbon emissions, they also strengthen community. The small town of Ashton Hayes in the UK launched the concept by conducting an audit of the town’s energy use, […]
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How to Start a Local Investing Group
Joining with others to provide capital for new or established local businesses is a great way to meet entrepreneurs in your community, strengthen relationships among friends, and bring more vitality to your local economy. Take action How to Invest Local by […]
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How to Support fundamental change of the financial system.
Local finance and banking alternatives can help communities and local economies, but their impacts will not be big enough to fundamentally remake the global financial system. For that, policy changes that extend beyond the local level will be needed. Get started […]
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Thinking Globally, Take Action Locally
Words: Local Futures, Mobilized News Production: Mobilized News How to Start a Buy Local Campaign Building “Buy Local” Campaigns that Shift Culture and Spending.
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How to create or join a community shared resources network
Words: Mobilized News, Streetbank, Shareable, Local Futures Production: Mobilized News Resources: How to start a community tool share 300 Guides to help your community thrive Local Sharing with your neighbors
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How to start a food cooperative
Resource: How to start a food cooperative Words: Mobilized News, Community Wealth.org, Local Futures Producer: Mobilized News