Released on: October 28, 2008, 8:37 am

Press Release Author: Howcast

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary: And Oppression
First-Ever Global Youth Summit to take place in New York City December 3-5, bringing
together 15 youth-movement leaders who have used digital media to create social
change against violence and oppression


Press Release Body: New York, NY-October 28, 2008-For the first time this December,
leaders of pioneering youth movements from more than 10 countries will launch a
global network of social movements against violent and oppression. From around the
world, each will travel to New York City with the mission of crafting a manual on
how to effect social change using online tools. This best-practices guide will be
located on Howcast.com, where anyone organizing a movement for change will be able
to access it.

Brought together by Howcast, along with other private-sector industry leaders, these
online-community organizers will meet to share their own experiences, discuss
outreach and develop a media and public relations strategy. Featuring video and text
content from each group's own experience, Howcast.com will create a central hub
where movement participants can post videos and how-to guides demonstrating their
successful techniques.

Over the past year, anti-violence youth organizations first initiated online and
then transformed into on-the-ground movements have had growing success. In February
2008, the Facebook group One Million Voices Against the FARC led to a 12
million-person worldwide protest against the Colombian terrorist group. Organized
by an unemployed engineer from his bedroom computer, the largest protest in
Colombia's history was also the largest protest against a terrorist organization in
world history. Other social movements started online are independently making
progress, using the power of social networks to catalyze change. These groups
represent a small number of civil-society movements that have been successful in
this effort, but there are thousands of groups that have yet to harness the social
power of the web.

"I am excited to be a part of this summit and the opportunity to finally meet face
to face with others who have also used the web to create real change," said Oscar
Morales, leader of One Million Voices Against the FARC. "This summit will allow us
to collaborate and create a guide to help show other youth movements how to use
digital resources to build a successful fight against violence and oppression."

About the Global Youth Movement

The first annual Global Youth Movement Summit will take place in New York on
December 3-5, 2008 bringing together representatives of the most successful online
campaigns that have translated into on-the-ground movements against violence and
oppression. During this summit, leaders from these organizations will collaborate on
a multimedia field manual of best practices, hosted on Howcast.com, to help teach
other organizers across the world how to successfully bridge the digital-to-reality
divide.


Contact:
Tessa Barrera
646-558-0671
tessa@howcast.com


Web Site: http://www.howcast.com

Contact Details: Tessa Barrera
518 Broadway, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
646-558-0671