Summary: Tonight we conclude with the HOW of communicating effectively along with historically useful methods that are no longer effective and some case studies of effective vs. ineffective protests. And we find something that #Occupy was effective at other than being an awareness campaign! Regular Hosts:Dave of Pagans promoting Healthy Active Tendencies (PHAT), Joe "I'm here" o Guest Hosts: Nick of The Satyr's Thicket, NRia of Pagan Men 01:02Nick, we need to talk 01:12How you say a message has a lot to do with how people perceive a message 01:45Case study of Scientology with regards to how to communicate a message 03:51Compare/Contrast of effective vs. an ineffective protest 01:12How you say a message has a lot to do with how people perceive a message 01:45Case study of Scientology with regards to how to communicate a message 03:51Compare/Contrast of effective vs. an ineffective protest 04:45Using a tool for what it's good for 04:45Using a tool for what it's good for 05:46Don't be offensive to the point it's counter-productive to your purpose 06:11Keeping things positive (fighting for something) generally works better in public mindset. 07:17Have a call to action! 06:51Effective protests focus on one central idea, other things can be brought up, but there is one core idea 07:17Have a call to action! 09:59Is your call to action going to be effective? Are you helping others help you? 10:20Is a more appropriate goal: benevolent apathy 10:47Have details! 11:30Have a plan pre-made for influencers to implement 13:06Is this physically possible? 13:57Rant against Occupy with how they do this wrong. 15:17Now exiting: communication 15:21Drama! 17:28Name calling is a bad idea when trying to get something done 18:44Scurvy fulfills a moral obligation to Patheos 19:31Lies and deception as part of your methodologies 22:28How homosexuality got removed from the DSM 20:10Why are historically proven methods failing us now? 20:44Why protests have stopped working 21:36Finally, an example of how Occupy did something right - mass manipulation 22:28How homosexuality got removed from the DSM 23:02Peaceful protests vs. the other type: Occupy 23:27Peaceful != Apathetic 25:00Sacrifice as a part of protest movements? 26:21Beginning the discussion about CEOs here 26:51Maciavelli reference, take a drink. 31:24Why women are not paid as much as other genders 31:57All goes back to effective communication 32:10How Occupy was effective at playing a page out of the proverbial political playbook 34:09Becoming an angry mob turns people against your movement, for example: Occupy 34:49If you are part of/leading a movement, it is your role to take control of the conversation! 36:00MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE CONVERSATION 38:17Why Scurvy hates Patheos Pagan Portal 38:54People with single goals 40:34The awesomeness of the Patheos Pagan Portal is overshadowed by derpy lower-management 41:54The most successful protests we see in textbooks had a lot of involvement from local communities - they weren't one large monolithic group. 43:47Apps as a means of effective communication 44:57People are wondering how Pagans (especially Wiccans) are going to help out 50:06Sometimes Pagans boycott stuff for stupid reasons 45:37Open Hearth Foundation doing cool stuff to essentially be a Pagan Lobby 46:33Online petitions generate awareness, but what are you doing with that awareness? 46:49Tactics not used by Pagans 47:04Boycotts, and Ed Hubbard's theory 50:06Sometimes Pagans boycott stuff for stupid reasons 51:56Suing the government fading out from common practice among Pagans for national campaigns Credits Post-produced by: Dave List of resources used or mentioned: PCP is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 US License. Season 25 Credits:
