Collective Joy = How to Harness the Power of #Occupy for Your Nonprofit Cause

Protest Puppet from Paris: Image copyright 0olong from Flickr

How can progressives use collective joy to help motivate people and promote our causes?

People who are working for change need to think about how to make their events draw on the solidarity and creativity of lots of people together. That’s been happening … but it’s something we need to address. Bringing art and culture into politics is a way to express what we are seeking, what our vision of the world is. -Barbara Ehrenreich