Passionate about social justice? Brave New Foundation seeks a Social Media Associate to drive our online strategy on at least two campaigns to secure a more humane world with opportunity for all. The issues you work on will include curbing mass incarceration and slashing our nation’s bloated, corrupt military budget.

 A strong candidate will:

• Have experience running social media campaigns.
• Demonstrate all-around aptitude with web-based tech and the ability to quickly master new tools (including NationBuilder, our content management system).
• Demonstrate the ability to push metadata, micro-content and back-end capabilities to their limit to help content go viral.
• Be proficient with Adobe Photoshop with an ability to make strong graphics for social distribution.
• Be a strong, concise writer with advanced experience using social media.
• Show a strong commitment to social justice.

Research and set up interviews for progressive political videos. Must know research Internet tools, sources and how to bring information together in clear concise format. This is not a Google cut and paste job. Be able to assemble show elements (music, video clips, interviews) to tell a compelling story.

Must be well versed in progressive politics. Should have a strong grasp on issues and knowledge of BRAVE NEW FILMS/FOUNDATION work. Your passion for politics is as important as production skills. Tell us about it.

“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

“America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This week, the three military contractors that do the most business with the Pentagon announced their quarterly profits for 2012. Their profits continue to grow while they push Washington, D.C. to protect their budgets at the expense of the rest of us. 

As violence continues following the burning of Qurans by ISAF in Afghanistan, insiders in Washington, D.C. and in the media are wasting quite a bit of breath asking the rhetorical question, "Why aren't the apologies working?" Military commanders in Afghanistan apologized profusely, President Obama exposed himself to the demagoguery of Republican primary opponents with his own apology. Why does the violence continue?