digital crisis communications, case greenpeace's #freethearctic30
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Keynote at eCampaigning Forum Europe 2014 5th of November, Austria Greenpeace's peaceful protest against oil drilling in the Arctic sea lead to the imprisonment of the ship crew of 30 people, falsely accused of piracy. How was the crisis turned into the most engaging campaign in Greenpeace's history so far? Hear it from the global Digital Lead of the ship tour.TRANSCRIPT
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Photo (C) Greenpeace / Denis Sinyakov 18/9/2013
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WHEN CONFRONTING A CRIME
Photo (C) Greenpeace / Denis Sinyakov 18/9/2013
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WHEN CONFRONTING A CRIMEMAKES YOU THE CRIMINAL
Photo (C) Greenpeace / Denis Sinyakov 18/9/2013
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Digital Crisis Communications
Case #FreeTheArctic30 By Veera Juvonen,
Digital Lead of Greenpeace’s Arctic Ship Tour “Confronting Arctic Oil” 2013
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PHOTO CREDITS CREENPEACE
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Digital Crisis Communications
Case #FreeTheArctic30 By Veera Juvonen,
Digital Lead of Greenpeace’s Arctic Ship Tour “Confronting Arctic Oil” 2013
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PHOTO CREDITS CREENPEACE
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Content
A story with a happy endingDigital crisis response
Consequences Learnings
Me.
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“We believe that oil drilling in the Arctic is an imminent threat to the environment there and to the climate globally. We have now entered the Russian Arctic
preparing peaceful protest against the reckless oil industry.” -August 11th, 2013
A story with a happy ending
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30 people of 18 nationalities onboard, of which 2 photojournalists and 4 climbers, sailed to protest against Russian oil giant Gazprom’s Arctic oil drilling.
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Sept 2013: The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise was illegally boarded by armed RussianCoast Guard in international waters, and towed to shore.
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The crew of 30 were arrested, accused of hooliganism and piracy, facing 15 years in jail. Bail hearings were held in Murmansk, Russia.
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November 2013: 263 cities protest as Arctic30 have been held two months in prison.
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An 18 page petition, signed by Russian journalists was presented to the judge before the hearing, demanding the release of the photojournalist Denis Sinyakov.
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The Russian parliament agreed to include the Arctic30 in an amnesty - for a crime they didn’t commit.
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Crisis Response
100 HOUR RAPID RESPONSE PLAN
Extended into communicating over an unknown time
Detention period ended up lasting 3 months
How to keep up the interest?
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Digital Comms
• Mobilising a global movement to protect the Arctic and the right to peaceful protest
• SoMe: #FreeTheArctic30
• Petition to pressure Russian Embassies to free the Arctic30
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• Occupying the Comms meeting in Holland
• Core team assembled to a crisis management centre in Copenhagen
• Digital Lead strategist + 2 digital managers to handle daily output and material distribution in the EU timezone
• Skype group for digitals + intranet page for materials
• 24h voluntary-based digital shift schedule to cover digital distribution in all timezones
Digital resources
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Motivate
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Motivate
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Motivate
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Seize the
moment
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18.10.2013 CCTV of six masked men entering the grounds of Greenpeace's Murmansk office, on the night that a mock 'cage', which was going to be used to highlight the injustice of the Arctic 30's imprisonment during a solidarity protest in Murmansk, was stolen from the grounds.
Sometimes stories just fall in your lap
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7.11.2013 Involve
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7.11.2013 Involve
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Let the
stars shine
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Let the
stars shine
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Showcase 3rd party support
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Commission ARTLikes!
Shares!
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Question the accusations
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Let SoMe do its share
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Let SoMe do its share
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Portray the people
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Create heroes
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Create heroes
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It’s a long story…June 2014 Arctic Sunrise was to be released > fundraising to fix the ship Aug 2014 Arctic Sunrise returns to Holland > Arctic30 meeting Sept 2014 Arctic30 anniversary. Showing solidarity of others being persecuted for peaceful activism. Oct 2014 The media interest on the released activists keeps up
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The following is based on a true storyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6r8eIRC88
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Consequences
Exponentially heightened media attention
Heightened interest to volunteer for Greenpeace
2 million petition signatures - More than ever
- Quicker than ever
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Long-term consequences92% growth in visits to Greenpeace websites worldwide within a year
Upcoming: Movie “Black Ice” and a book
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Evaluation learnings • Gather 3rd party support and use all networks available. • Plan HR.
• Include adequate, committed, named human resources already in the campaign planning phase.
• In case of key people being unavailable, find adequate substitutes or scale down, or cancel the project.
• Appoint only people with crisis response experience in leadership roles. • Briefings must set out the worst-case scenarios and consequences, no
matter how unlikely they seem. • Detailed contingency plans should cover the first 5 days. • Set up command and control structure with crystal-clear chain of
decision-makers. • Share and train user-friendly crisis management guidelines and
protocols to staff.
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This presentation is made by…• Veera Juvonen
• Former Digital Marketing Manager of Greenpeace Nordic
• Global Digital Lead of Greenpeace’s Arctic Ship Tour in 2014, known as #FreeTheArctic30
• Entrepreneur and digital activist, designing digital strategies for a better world www.digiaktivisti.fi
• Mail [email protected]
• Twitter veerajuvonen