Patrick Reinsborough

Reinsborough's writing and political work deals with building transformative movements, shifting cultural narratives and political imagination[1] with a focus on the ecological crisis.[2][3] He authored the widely circulated essay/zine "Decolonizing the Revolutionary Imagination".[4][5][6] He was a founding member of the smartMeme Strategy & Training Project,[7] which began in 2002 training grassroots activists to apply meme theory[8][9] as a way to shift political debates, amplify social change efforts and "change the story".[10] Reinsborough is one of the creators of story-based strategy methodology[11][12] and associated with widely used social change frameworks such as "narrative power analysis",[13][14] "points of intervention"[15] and the "battle of the story".[16][17] He co-founded and was the Executive Director of the Center for Story-based Strategy.[18][19]

Reinsborough was a prominent organizer, trainer and media spokesperson for the U.S. wing of the anti-corporate globalization movement often known as the global justice movement[20] and was involved in mass actions such as the shutdown of the World Trade Organization in 1999 actions against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund,[21][22] the World Economic Forum[23] and the protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas Meeting in Miami in 2003.[24]

He has been a public voice against U.S. militarism and called for the American public to engage in mass nonviolent disruption to stop wars.[25] He was an anti-war organizer and media strategist working with the San Francisco-based mobilization Direct Action to Stop the War,[26] which led mass protests against the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.[27][28] He has also advocated for making connections between opposing war and other issues such as racial and economic justice, corporate power and the climate crisis.[29][30]

Reinsborough has been associated with a number of campaigns challenging the human rights and ecological impacts of fossil fuels as well as demanding stronger action to address climate change. He helped organize an international solidarity campaign supporting Colombia’s indigenous U’wa people, who threatened to commit collective suicide to protest oil drilling on their ancestral territories.[31][32][33]

He has supported protests inside the United Nations COP Climate Talks that criticize the failure of the process to address the climate crisis[34] as well as worked to amplify the voices of North American indigenous leaders participating in the UN forum.[35] Reinsborough is an advocate for the climate movement taking stronger leadership from fossil-fuel impacted communities as a way to accelerate a just transition to a renewable energy future.[36][37] He has been a strong critic of the Trump administration, calling them "neo-fascist" and pawns of “global petrocapitalism”.[38]

• List of peace activists

• Official website
• Center for Story-based Strategy
• Beautiful Trouble