![]() ![]() New Power, written by Purpose CEO Jeremy Heimans and Giving Tuesday cofounder Henry Timms, helps us both to understand the moment unfolding around us and to navigate this new world. ![]() But both used the power of platforms to gain traction for their ideas. One was extremely well funded, the other runs on the passion of grieving students. Both are subverting traditional power structures to gain their own power and influence. ![]() These two initiatives are more alike than they are different. With few resources and without attachment to any organization, they have generated mass protests and brought millions of voices to bear on legislators and others whose decisions profoundly affect the availability of guns. And yet, just as the public learned about Cambridge Analytica, a group of high school students from Parkland, Florida, captured the civic conversation on preventing gun violence. It can seem insurmountable to drive change in an environment shaped by resources beyond the reach of anyone working to change the status quo. As details emerged this spring about Cambridge Analytica’s mining of Facebook data to help manipulate elections around the world, it was easy to succumb to a feeling of powerlessness. ![]()
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