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Micah Sifry

(He/Him)
New York
As seen in: The Connector Newsletter, CNN, Medium, MSN, OneZero, The New York Times, The Atlantic, WIRED (UK), Substack, The Message Box, Salon and
Covers:  Politics, tech, movements, organizing, philanthropy, Israel-Palestine
Co-founder, CivicHall.org. Read theconnector.substack.com, on democracy, organizing and tech. Also find me at mastodon.social/@msifry & msifry.bsky.social
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Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America

Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America

Routledge — More Americans now identify as political independents than as either Democrats or Republicans. Tired of the two-party gridlock, the pandering, and the lack of vision, they've turned in increasing numbers to independent and third-party candidates.
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Big Disconnect - OR Books

Big Disconnect - OR Books

orbooks.com — In his usual pithy, to-the-point style, Micah L. Sifry, a longtime analyst of democracy and its role on the internet, explores why data-driven politics and our digital overlords have failed or misled us, and how they can be made to serve us instead, in a real balance between citizens and state, independent of corporations.
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WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency - OR Books

WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency - OR Books

orbooks.com — The effects of the ongoing WikiLeaks are cumulative--sort of like mercury poisoning--and reveal much about how dreadful many of our policies, especially regarding the war in Afghanistan, have been. With insight and clarity, Micah Sifry explores the red-hot spot where politics and the Internet intersect.
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A Lever and a Place To Stand - How Civic Tech Can Move The World

A Lever and a Place To Stand - How Civic Tech Can Move The World

amazon.com — Anthology of reporting on civic tech successes and failures, with case studies on SeeClickFix, Front Porch Forum, NextDoor, NationBuilder, Public Lab, Brigade, Facebook, Hollaback!, the People's Climate March, ChangeByUs and Waze.
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Civic Tech in the Global South : Assessing Technology for the Public Good

Civic Tech in the Global South : Assessing Technology for the Public Good

World Bank Blogs — This book is comprised of one study and three field evaluations of civic tech initiatives in developing countries. The study reviews evidence on the use of twenty-three information and communication technology (ICT) platforms designed to amplify citizen voices to improve service delivery.
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Inside the Fall of Obama's Grassroots Army

Inside the Fall of Obama's Grassroots Army

The New Republic — In 2008, Barack Obama's presidential campaign built a massive base of volunteers that propelled him to the Democratic nomination and victory in November--but then he abandoned them. Here's the inside story of what happened to "Movement 2.0," an effort that some of the more innovative and tech-savvy leaders of his campaign wanted to build, and how Democratic party insiders squashed it.
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When Doves Try: Israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983 - With an Epilogue for the Post-October 7 W...

When Doves Try: Israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983 - With an Epilogue for the Post-October 7 W...

Warrior Cats Backstory to Evil — When Doves Try: Israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983 - With an Epilogue for the Post-October 7 World - Kindle edition by Sifry, Micah. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.
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When Doves Try: Israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983 - With an Epilogue for the Post-October 7 W...

When Doves Try: Israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983 - With an Epilogue for the Post-October 7 W...

Warrior Cats Backstory to Evil — When Doves Try: Israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983 - With an Epilogue for the Post-October 7 World - Kindle edition by Sifry, Micah. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.
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When Doves Try: Israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983

When Doves Try: Israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983

micahsifry.com — When Doves Try: Israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983 tells the story of how a handful of young Israeli reserve officers helped ignite the country's largest grassroots peace movement. In 1978, their open letter to Prime Minister Menachem Begin struck a chord that mobilized hundreds of thousands of Israelis, pressed for the Camp David accords, and forced Israeli leaders to reckon with the human and moral costs of occupation and war.
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