Power
What is Power? How does it work? Power is the ability to act. Power is not good or bad. It is how you use it and toward what end. Power…
What a Direct Action Campaign Can Do
[tabs slidertype="top tabs"] [tabcontainer] [tabtext]What a DA Campaign can do[/tabtext] [tabtext]2 main ways DA works[/tabtext] [tabtext]Key Concepts[/tabtext] [/tabcontainer] [tabcontent][tab] Point a Spotlight Raise public awareness about an institution, program or…
People Power
From winning concrete improvements in people’s lives to toppling dictators, people power is a method that works. Every successful social change movement in US history has had a key element of people power and…
Liberation
"I have come to see that violence against other living things is oppression, just as I have come to see that oppression is violence". Oppression Oppression is when anyone regardless…
Interest
Interest is something that benefits a person or group or institution or community. Self-interest is a way to cross boundaries. Not everyone has the same interests and our interests change…
Strategy & Campaigns
Strategy is your plan to win. Strategy is choosing the ground on which to engage the enemy Strategy means: Looking at the big picture Knowing who has the power to…
Organizing
The process of change has two fundamental strategies. One is dismantling structures of oppression while the second is creating structures of liberation. If we don’t have something to replace what…
Action
The Art & Science of Actions: Shutting Things Down to Open Things Up Change is about transformation – personal and political – at an individual, group, community, institutional, national, or…
Media
A compilation of select writings, articles, videos, photos, and slideshows by or about Lisa Fithian and the campaigns and mobilizations she's worked on. Writings By Lisa Steal This Book –…