Quit your job, start an A-Team (Fight for Future)

Deadline: As soon as possible

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Location(s)

  • United States of America
  • Worldwide

Overview

Terrified about Trump? Quit your job, start an A-Team. We'll fund it. Read this.

Details

You are a talented human with a broad set of skills. You can speak, write, pitch, and persuade. You can make a Power Point, or make art.

You work every day, solving problems. You get a ton done.

Now, let’s say you suddenly became terrified for the world’s future. What would you do?

You can call Congress, or attend a protest. And you should. But is that it? Why stop there? Why set aside everything you’ve learned, everything you are, to be simply one more terrified person on a phone line, or marching in a street?

What if you did the following, as well? 

  1. Find someone you love to work with.
  2. Pick an issue area and angle.
  3. Do activism full-time using every connection, skill, tool, and trick at your disposal—until you win. 

Our goal: to convince you to take exactly these steps, give you a playbook, and fund you.

This is a proposal for defending the world. And it's a good one. If you’re feeling like the world needs defending right now, keep reading.

Me? Full time activism?

Yes. This may not be obvious, but it’s true: all of your powerful, hard-won skills and habits are highly transferable to the work of political action. The workday of a lobbyist, community organizer or political operative—and the skills they use—aren’t so different from those of writers, journalists, lawyers, advertisers, therapists, nurses, designers, engineers, teachers, or salespeople. It’s just language, problem solving, and dedication. If you want to change the world, that's all it takes.

(Meanwhile, making this a fulfilling job that pays your bills is, while difficult, easier than you think.)

We write this as two people who have been doing this work for some time.

For years, we’ve been practicing the approaches that suddenly, more than ever, every issue needs: approaches that achieve surprising upset victories, against the odds.

The world has been getting... weird lately. But new, massive opportunities to make it better are emerging all the time. So the world needs teams like ours, in every issue area. We need some company out here.

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Eligibility

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Description of Ideal Candidate

Who are you? How are you so sure this can work?

The name of our organization is Fight for the Future. Our names are Holmes Wilson and Tiffiniy Cheng. For the past 5 and a half years we’ve been toiling away on a previously somewhat obscure set of political issues facing the Internet.

During that time, we helped create two of the biggest victories for grassroots power in the past decade: the 2015 victory for Net Neutrality and the 2012 victory against SOPA & PIPA.

Are you funding teams outside the US?

Yes, possibly. If you're working in the Internet freedom space, definitely be in touch. Otherwise, we'd love to talk, but funding is unlikely in the short term. It's just too hard for us to evaluate teams and strategy.

Neither was supposed to be winnable. Insiders said we were crazy to even try.


Both were against the most powerful corporate lobbies in America: the media and pharmaceutical lobbies (MPAA and PhrMA) on SOPA/PIPA, and then the cable and telecom lobby (NCTA) on Net Neutrality.


Dates

Deadline: As soon as possible


Cost/funding for participants

You’re offering funding to do activism?

Yes.

We're still working out the details, but if you've got a strong 2-3 person A-Team and a target we'd give you $15,000 right now for the first month, just to see what you can do.

If you make a big splash or measurable impact on your target in that time, we're pretty sure we can find you more.

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