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Revisions for Advocacy

1 CURRENT	bhamster	November 15, 2021 22:56 \| over 2 years ago Advocacy means taking action to effect change in an issue that personally matters to you. Advocacy makes up a large portion of activity undertaken in community science projects. These projects often produce much-needed data about an environmental issue, and that data needs someone to speak for it [1] to different audiences: Your neighbors Elected representatives The press Regulatory agencies In court This page is a place to collect and organize resources on advocacy. Visit the advocacy tag page to see the latest community posts about advocacy on Public Lab, and get updates on this topic by following: Follow Advocacy Also visit related pages on organizing, community science, and law and policy. Sources: [1] @kgradow1’s presentation about the bucket air monitor. Lead image: Peter Blanchard, CC BY On this page you can: Learn about different advocacy methods and do or add an activity Join the conversation Ask a question, answer a question, or follow future questions on advocacy Post an issue brief that describes your advocacy work Read stories on community science advocacy Find further reading and resources on advocacy Advocacy methods Within the five main types of advocacy efforts (communicating with your neighbors, the press, elected representatives, regulators at government agencies, and through litigation in court), here are some particular processes that projects may seek to generate or contribute to: Connecting with peers Telling your story Relationship building (see section on audiences, below) Awareness raising & education Community organizing Mobilizing with those working on adjacent, interconnected issues Increasing your reach Getting media coverage Nonviolent direct action Bumping it up a level Power mapping to know where to focus your efforts Pressuring elected officials to act on an issue Making an issue a focus of an upcoming electoral campaign season Engaging with environmental governance processes and political realities Providing public input to established regulatory processes such as permitting for land uses that are continuing, changing, or new. Documenting exceedances or violations to trigger agency investigation, administrative action, and/or enforcement action Identifying gaps in regulatory coverage and designing new regulations Providing political cover to regulators so they can stand up to corrupt political/economic influence (Example: showing proof of valid grounds to sue the government agency for not acting) Litigation against government agencies for not meeting legal standards for environmental protection Interacting with more powerful corporate neighbors Mediation with industry Litigation against industry Additional methods published on Public Lab and tagged with `advocacy` will appear on the advocacy methods page: https://publiclab.org/methods#advocacy More on the types of audiences projects may seek to reach Image: from this post by @a1ahna Others who are affected Neighbors who are also constituents Community leaders in churches, schools, civic associations, care businesses Landowners making private land use decisions Elected representatives Agency civil servants Industry employees, management, ownership, or board of directors Journalists Environmental lawyers Activities Activities on Public Lab that have been tagged with `activity:advocacy` will appear here [notes:grid:activity:advocacy] Research notes You can find all research notes on Public Lab that have been tagged with `advocacy` here: https://publiclab.org/tag/advocacy Join the conversation Questions from the community See if other community members are asking questions like yours Ask a question so other community members can offer support Sign up below to be notified when someone asks an advocacy-related question Questions tagged with `question:advocacy` will appear here [questions:advocacy] Post an Issue Brief Share information about a local environmental health concern and get support from the Public Lab community by writing and posting an Issue Brief. Visit “Write an Issue Brief” to find information on what an issue brief is, see examples, and learn how to write one. Stories in community science advocacy Image: by @mlamadrid, from this story about using balloon mapping to temporarily stall eviction proceedings in Kampala, Uganda Environmental & Public Health Advocacy Success Stories Stories from the Public Lab community Air monitoring bucket successes in South Durban and Sasolburg, South Africa, and in Tonawanda, New York Further reading and resources Beautiful Trouble Wikis on advocacy [wikis:advocacy]	Revert
0	bhamster	June 23, 2021 17:35 \| almost 3 years ago Advocacy means taking action to effect change in an issue that personally matters to you. Advocacy makes up a large portion of activity undertaken in community science projects. These projects often produce much-needed data about an environmental issue, and that data needs someone to speak for it [1] to different audiences: Your neighbors Elected representatives The press Regulatory agencies In court This page is a place to collect and organize resources on advocacy. Visit the advocacy tag page to see the latest community posts about advocacy on Public Lab, and get updates on this topic by following: Follow Advocacy Also visit related pages on organizing, community science, and law and policy. Sources: [1] @kgradow1’s presentation about the bucket air monitor. Lead image: Peter Blanchard, CC BY On this page you can: Learn about different advocacy methods and do or add an activity Join the conversation Ask a question, answer a question, or follow future questions on advocacy Post an issue brief that describes your advocacy work Read stories on community science advocacy Find further reading and resources on advocacy Advocacy methods Within the five main types of advocacy efforts (communicating with your neighbors, the press, elected representatives, regulators at government agencies, and through litigation in court), here are some particular processes that projects may seek to generate or contribute to: Connecting with peers Telling your story Relationship building (see section on audiences, below) Awareness raising & education Community organizing Mobilizing with those working on adjacent, interconnected issues Increasing your reach Getting media coverage Nonviolent direct action Bumping it up a level Power mapping to know where to focus your efforts Pressuring elected officials to act on an issue Making an issue a focus of an upcoming electoral campaign season Engaging with environmental governance processes and political realities Providing public input to established regulatory processes such as permitting for land uses that are continuing, changing, or new. Documenting exceedances or violations to trigger agency investigation, administrative action, and/or enforcement action Identifying gaps in regulatory coverage and designing new regulations Providing political cover to regulators so they can stand up to corrupt political/economic influence (Example: showing proof of valid grounds to sue the government agency for not acting) Litigation against government agencies for not meeting legal standards for environmental protection Interacting with more powerful corporate neighbors Mediation with industry Litigation against industry Additional methods published on Public Lab and tagged with `advocacy` will appear on the advocacy methods page: https://publiclab.org/methods#advocacy More on the types of audiences projects may seek to reach Image: from this post by @a1ahna Others who are affected Neighbors who are also constituents Community leaders in churches, schools, civic associations, care businesses Landowners making private land use decisions Elected representatives Agency civil servants Industry employees, management, ownership, or board of directors Journalists Environmental lawyers Activities Activities on Public Lab that have been tagged with `activity:advocacy` will appear here [notes:grid:activity:advocacy] Research notes You can find all research notes on Public Lab that have been tagged with `advocacy` here: https://publiclab.org/tag/advocacy Join the conversation Questions from the community See if other community members are asking questions like yours Ask a question so other community members can offer support Sign up below to be notified when someone asks an advocacy-related question Questions tagged with `question:advocacy` will appear here [questions:advocacy] Post an Issue Brief Share information about a local environmental health concern and get support from the Public Lab community by writing and posting an Issue Brief. Visit “Write an Issue Brief” to find information on what an issue brief is, see examples, and learn how to write one. Stories in community science advocacy Image: by @mlamadrid, from this story about using balloon mapping to temporarily stall eviction proceedings in Kampala, Uganda Environmental & Public Health Advocacy Success Stories Stories from the Public Lab community Air monitoring bucket successes in South Durban and Sasolburg, South Africa, and in Tonawanda, New York Further reading and resources Beautiful Trouble Wikis on advocacy [wikis:advocacy]	Revert

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