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07/12/10 | by soundslikeamovement
We love TOMS Shoes…and apparently they like us too!
They’re giving us $5 for every pair of TOMS shoes you buy on their website!
So that’s TWO causes you can support when you by a pair of TOMS.
1. You’ll be giving a pair of shoes to a child in need.
2. You’ll be raising support for future SOUNDS LIKE A MOVEMENT endeavors.
Here’s the catch: TOMS is only offering this to us for the next couple of weeks….so you got to get on this! With summer upon us, it’s as good a time as ever to get a pair.
Here’s how:
- You can order online from your home computer by visiting www.TOMS.com. You will need to create an account in order to apply the discount code to your purchase. On the www.TOMS.com homepage, at the top of the screen there is a button that says “My Account,” please click “Join” to create an account using your first name, last name, email address and password.
- Once this step is completed, you will be able to add TOMS to your online shopping “cart.” Once you verify that all of the products being ordered are the correct sizes/colors, please proceed through the secure checkout process. After entering your mailing address and billing address, the next page will contain a section on the left side of the screen to enter a discount code.
- Please enter the code, SOUNDSLIKE, at this time, all one word & lowercase letters. Click “apply”.
Would you consider buying a pair TODAY to help keep our movement? Let us know when you do by leaving a comment below so we can thank you properly!
- THE SOUNDS LIKE A MOVEMENT TEAM
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07/11/10 | by soundslikeamovement
Many of you have asked when another movement will be.
We’ve taken the past month off from gathering in local community hubs to strategize, dream, and bring other people around us into the vision of SOUNDS LIKE A MOVEMENT.
Our team is ramping up for a new season of gatherings that mobilize communities from awareness to action around cultural renaissance. Someone once said that between knowledge and action there is a great chasm. Awareness is simply not enough. We must find ways, no matter how small, to shift culture from knowing there’s a need to doing something about it.
That said, there are murmurings of a movement coming to a new city this July. We’re particularly stoked about partnering with this city but don’t want to give everything we’re planning away at once. Let’s see if you can figure it out…
- This city is in Southern California.
- It has a population of 461,522.
- 268,000 of those people are unemployed.
- The town was laid out and settled in 1881 by developer W. E. Willmore, who sold lots on the site as a seaside resort community called Willmore City.
Tweet your guess to @SLAMovement. First one to get it right gets free home-made milk & cookies for them and their friends at the next event. Not even kidding!
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04/21/10 | by soundslikeamovement
We made it through our second event! Sure the cops came after it was over and told us we were over capacity. We had a great conversation with them and learned a lot about the tough times the city of Fullerton is experiencing financially. It’s clear we need some bigger venues. Any ideas? Email them to info@soundslikeamovement.com. While you’re thinking, take a look at some pictures from the evening (thanks to Michelle Kim for the killer shots.)
The Waltz folkin’ it up…
Why we do what we do…
Jessie from 31bits came to speak and got a new facebook profile picture out of it…stealth.
Jennifer sounding like a movement bringing our attention to California Against Slavery.
Pawnshop Kings’ funk induced cant-sit-still set…
Through the window. It was too packed inside!
Did you take any photos/videos of the event? Send them our way (info@soundslikeamovement.com) and we’ll post them!
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04/19/10 | by soundslikeamovement
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Someone asked me a question today I never considered how to answer. He asked, “Why do you think social justice and creativity seem to go hand-in-hand?”
It’s true. How many benefit concerts, compilation CDs, art shows, documentaries, and fashion accessories exist in the world to bring aid and awareness to others in need? Is it just a trend we’re currently witnessing at this point in history? I don’t believe it can be wrapped up that simply.
There is a natural connection between causes and creativity that links people from across the globe because creativity is the most transferable language humanity knows. It grounds us, it gathers us, it compels us close to one another, and generates conversation, which in turn, leads to more creativity.
There are two things that run deep in the marrow of all humans that have the potential to birth creativity:
1. We possess this innate urge to express ourselves, to shout to the world, “I’m significant! I matter!”
2. We possess an even deeper urge to express to others their worth, to affirm, “YOU’RE significant! YOU matter!”
Unfortunately, the second characteristic often gets overshadowed by the first and wars break out..
But there’s something beautiful that transpires when the two truths collide and begin to orbit each other like electrons around a nucleus.
We at SOUNDS LIKE A MOVEMENT want to get good at tapping into the creative potential of our generation for the sake of self- AND others-expression.
We invite you to join us. After all, you are the movement.
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04/06/10 | by soundslikeamovement
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Well, the launch is officially behind us..
But this movement is just getting started!
We’re inviting you to be the renaissance by participating in our second gathering.
Here’s the skinny…
THE ARTISTS:
PAWNSHOP KINGS
THE WALTZ
THE CAUSES:
31 BITS
CALIFORNIA AGAINST SLAVERY
THE COMMUNITY:
We’re camping out in downtown Fullerton, CA for the next couple of months because we believe it’s a place ripe for creative potential and cultural reform. Come be family with us at one of Fullerton’s finest new establishments, CAFE WEST and experience “culture from the corners of the city.”
As always, YOU are the movement. You’re our best PR, marketing agency, and media collective. Photograph, video, tweet, blog, pimp, and share this event if you connect with what we’re doing! We’d appreciate it with the utmost gratitude.
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03/29/10 | by soundslikeamovement
