On tonight’s City Visions, I’ll speak with the founders of Grab Your Wallet and Sleeping Giants to learn how two Bay Area residents took to Twitter to organize influential corporate boycotts following the 2016 election. In the process, they created two different and successful grassroots campaigns — one a boycott of companies doing business with Trump and his affiliates and the other aimed at advertisers on Breitbart, an alt-right website.
How did these campaigns take off, and what are the limits of Twitter activism? When consumers demand that companies stop advertising or doing business, where’s the line between stopping hate speech and censoring free speech?
Joining me to discuss will be:
- Shannon Coulter, co-founder of Grab Your Wallet;
- Matt Rivitz, founder of Sleeping Giants; and
- David Snyder, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition
Listen live at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area at 7pm or stream on-line. Call or email with your questions!
