{"id":3064,"date":"2012-04-12T13:35:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:51:31","slug":"tweet-click-post-share-how-the-web-made-trayvon-martin-global-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"Tweet, Click, Post, Share: How the Web Made Trayvon Martin Global News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>new video from the <a href=\"http:\/\/neworganizing.com\/\">New Organizing Institute<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KSp3CGBn2uw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Almost overnight, Trayvon Martin&#8217;s tragic story became a global news headline that put the issues of racial justice, inequality, and gun laws in the public and political dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>But the story didn&#8217;t break the next day. It took nearly three weeks before it caught fire. And the story wasn&#8217;t pushed into the public sphere by news media; it was driven by social media and online organizing, until traditional outlets took notice.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator:<br \/>\n&#8211; Rashad Robinson, ColorOfChange (@rashadrobinson)<br \/>\nPanelists:<br \/>\n&#8211; Maria Roach, Activist, Creator of &#8220;Justice for Trayvon Martin&#8221; SignOn.org Petition (@riaro)<br \/>\n&#8211; Mark Glaze, Director, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (@markcglaze)<br \/>\n&#8211; Tim Newman, Senior Organizer, Change.org (@tnewmstweets)<br \/>\n&#8211; Curtis Johnson, Online and Social Media Specialist, NAACP (@curtjohnson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video from the New Organizing Institute Almost overnight, Trayvon Martin&#8217;s tragic story became a global news headline that put the issues of racial justice, inequality, and gun laws in the public and political dialogue. But the story didn&#8217;t break the next day. It took nearly three weeks before it caught fire. And the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[830,827,828,824,826,831,129,825,829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}