CD Evolution Content Submission Guidelines

Articles

We’re most interested in original articles showing techniques for dealing with police, the courts, or the jails. We will also publish blog posts on the history and philosophy of civil disobedience.

It pays: Up to $25.

How to get the maximum pay:

1. The post should be educational, in that the reader can learn how to be a more successful activist.
2. Topics about civil disobedience or non-compliance in New Hampshire are the most relevant.
3. Proper grammar and spelling are important. If you’re not sure, have someone else check it.
4. Media is important, either photos or videos can be embedded in the story.
5. Try to keep it under 1,000 words.
6. Suggest a headline, but realize that we might change it.

While these are only guidelines, they are not cast in stone. A concise, pithy blog post elucidating your feelings on your friend’s arrest could be worth more than a long, complex article about a trial.

Live reporting

Let others know what is happening in near real-time. CD Evolution will pay a daily stipend if you would like to report live from an event using various forms of live-reporting technologies. Again, videos that provide valuable information for current and future activists are preferred over the reporting of current events.

It pays: $25 per day.

Guidelines:

1. Pre-approval from the director of CD Evolution is required.
2. Submit your idea and how you would go about covering the event. You could use live streaming video via Qik or UStream, short posts via Twitter, or real-time posts on Facebook or other social networking sites.
3. The content will stay on the CD Evolution site for archival purposes.
4. Getting the per-day fee does not preclude you from submitting a video or blog post about your adventure

The best way to get paid for live reporting is in letting us know how you plan to cover the event and how your coverage will create excitement for our visitors and for the community as a whole.

Photo Gallery

If you are shooting still pictures of an event that shows peaceful people interacting with the violence of the state. 

It pays: Up to $50.

How to get the maximum pay:

1. The photos should be about a relevant, current, compelling event.
2. The topic of the event should be educational, in that the viewer can learn more about how to perform effective civil disobedience.
3. The quality of the photos is important, but the image content itself is more important. If the best photo you have of a critical moment is fuzzy, that’s probably acceptable.
4. A CDEvolution watermark must be imprinted on each photo.
5. A gallery should have a title and a brief description of what it portrays.

A photo gallery is different from a handful of photos that illustrate a blog post or article. A gallery can have dozens or even hundreds of photos that shows the event from many different angles. A brief caption on important pictures is also helpful. The educational aspect of the photos will probably be enhanced if the narrative reports on what is happening and what is going right and what is going wrong.

Video

Video is the most compelling content for our site. If you have your camera rolling at an event, make it into a video and submit it to us. If you have great raw footage but don’t have the time or ability to turn it into a polished presentation, let us know and we’ll tell you if we’ll pay for it. Like articles and photos, the most important aspect of a video is that it shows current and future activists the right (and possibly wrong) way to deal with government agents.

It pays: Up to $100.

How to get the maximum pay:

1. The video should be educational, in that the viewer can learn how to be a more successful activist.
2. If you are covering an event, the video should portray it as relevant, current, and compelling.
3. The editing should be such that a story is told and the viewer is satisfied and fulfilled after watching.
4. The target length for a video is between 5 and 8 minutes.
5. A CDEvolution watermark must be placed in a corner of the entire video.
6. A 5-second CD Evolution clip should be at the front, and a 30 second CD Evolution advertisement should be at the end of the video. We will provide those.

If you’d like to get some feedback from us about a video idea or actual material you have before posting it, just upload it to YouTube, mark it private, and share it with content@cdevolution.org. We’ll take a look and let you know what we think.