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From: Rosie Hoberg <rosie at getcouragenow.org>
Date: Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 5:24 PM
Subject: Tech talent question re preventing fascist coup/saving planet


We are writing to you in the hopes you might know of any talented/senior
level techies or design talent who have a strong activist bent and might
want to work with one of the best engineers and security architects around,
PT ok, for this very special urgently needed project. It’s called
GetCourageNow and in the opinion of over 20 top organizers
<https://www.getcouragenow.org/reviews>could be the most valuable and
urgently needed social change tool of 2020 and 2021 - a tool that could
save us from a right wing fascist coup this Nov, Dec or January, and fight
for crucial climate, social, and economic justice. More job details at the
end.

We are a small, nonprofit, devoted activist tech team who for the past 4
years has worked hard to create this new concept activist recruitment and
commitment tool to solve what many organizers call the mother of all
organizing challenges. <http://bit.ly/MotherOfAllChallenges> We believe
this is the first fear-minimizing, courage-unleashing ladder of engagement
and real time communication platform to enable grassroots campaigns using
nonviolent civil resistance (NVCR) strategies to rapidly recruit and
organize the massive numbers they need to have at least a 70-80% chance of
success. We are called GetCourageNow and our mission in three words is to scale
moral courage, fast enough to save democracy, end grotesque wealth
inequality, and save Mother Nature before it’s too late.

GetCourageNow, which would be white-label integrated into the “take-action”
tabs of grassroots campaigns, fills a critical gap ignored by campaign tech
such as ActionNetwork, and Mobilize, and is based on what social change
history has repeatedly shown
<https://wendygetcouragenoworg-dot-mymailmeteor.appspot.com/-M6Vfyy5UYbB7W3tJSLC/-M6Vg-fcG-D2Pu5IRcSe?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FEricaChenoweth>
has the best track record of success in overthrowing fascist regimes (as
well as fighting social, environmental, economic injustices) - ie., needing
2-3% of the population to be involved in nonviolent civil resistance. Such
a tool could play a pivotal urgently needed role relevant to the upcoming
November-Inauguration day period,  and this is underscored by the recent
anti-coup research George Lakey article on how democracies successfully
thwart rightwing coups <http://bit.ly/CoupThwart2>.

GetCourageNow is based on the simple hypothesis that if you seamlessly and
securely combine five free, already proven recruitment motivators into one
mobile-friendly place, this will increase recruitment metrics for
courageous actions, resulting in a cumulative and possibly synergistic
effect. You can find out more and see our demo and more in the links below:


   1.

   Check out our website <https://www.getcouragenow.org/>
   2.

   Our one pager
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SwS86WxJJVX8XKAVUHV1ozvvgo2bkMt3960N6TAu1VM/edit>,
   reflecting almost four years of R&D.
   3.

   Our PPT and two part animation plus 10 min video demo
   <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14JneMocZr1DrocjcwEWLXyOO1P4sOkrHiOxUWJG8wF8/edit>
   (on slide 5).
   4.

   Reviews <https://www.getcouragenow.org/reviews> from more than 20 top
   organizers in the US, including Dolores Huerta and Wade Rathke (founder of
   ACORN).


After much R&D, user interviews, coding, and reviews, we are now entering
the beta testing phase of development. If you like what we are doing in the
hopes of solving the recruitment and commitment challenges for nonviolent
mass civil resistance strategos, and you are in touch with talented current
students or alumni, we are currently looking for support in the following
(ideally donated the first month, otherwise basic living expenses possible):


   1.

   Golang senior level engineer
   2.

   Flutter frontend developer
   3.

   UI or UX design talent (consultant help might suffice)


Other non tech talent needs:


   1.

   Social media talent or anyone with micro-influencer contacts to help us
   crowdfund the remaining funds we need to finish and then beta test our app
   (remote position, part-time)
   2.

   Courageous campaigns who would love to be considered for our beta test
   (we'll even have funding for the campaign(s) to hire their own additional
   volunteer coordinator)
   3.

   Anyone with connections to higher ups in any of the major organizations
   now working to safeguard the upcoming election and/or to protect the
   Republic from a rightwing coup


We realize that many might think that it might be too late for our new tech
breakthrough to be used to safeguard the election, prevent a 12th Amendment
scenario, or even prevent a coup in late November, December, or January. Here
are five reasons why this hopefully is not the case
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ADwjYz8Qa1QqJ8nkKlp6o3oaoq9kOlffHw0CPstevw/edit?usp=sharing>
.

We would love to hear your thoughts on any of the above. We cherish
criticism.


Best,


Rosie Dime

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organisations.

Web: https://www.getcouragenow.org/

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