Resource Type: Research & Articles

There are some key ways for movements to incorporate strategic visuals into actions, campaigns, and trainings. A cohesive visual strategy translates disconnected technical skills from visual storytelling crafts into a plan to meet our movements’ goals. One key is the “distribution” of movement visuals: at actions, then broadcast via social media and through news media coverage. You should be able to tell “the story” of any action in a couple visuals (that could be posted on social media as a narrative). A helpful timeline for action visuals includes, in order: preparing supplies; planning, training, artbuilds; seeing the community respond; doing the action; talking about how the action felt. Various types of actions that need strong visuals are: rallies, marches, sit-ins, banner drops, blockades, and hold outs. This resource also includes some tips on best moments of an action to photograph and lots of sample action photos.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on the energy crisis and gas prices, a new poll of coastal Americans’ attitudes about the climate crisis and policy solutions to address it, new polling on clean energy provisions in President Biden’s economic plan, and a new poll of young voters on President Biden’s approach to climate.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling about increasing domestic energy production from different sources amid the crisis in Ukraine and a new poll on water-related environmental issues.