- What a Direct Action Campaign Can Do
- Direct Action Strategy Questions
- Steps in a Nonviolent Direct Action Campaign & Campaign Planning Worksheet
- How to Write a Proposal for an Action, from the Vernal Project
- Action Organizing Manual (3 pages)
- Solidarity in Practice personal, in the streets, in the media, and in jail
- Action Check List
- Tips for Mapping & Scouting
- Peace Keeper Quick Reference
- What to Bring to an Action
- Crowd Wisdom
Training Agendas
- Shutting Things Down to Open Things Up, workshop agenda for thinking about space and dual power structures in organizing direct action
- Basic Civil Disobedience Training Agenda – 2 hours
- Sample Nonviolent Direct Action Training – 4 Hours
- Declaration of Peace Nonviolent Action Training
- Wall Charts for Mass Action Trainings, from trainings in Prague, 2001
- Marshall Training – The Do’s & Don’ts of Being a Marshall
- Peace Keeper Training Agenda
- Peace Keeper Quick Reference
Tactics
- 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action, by Gene Sharp
- Swarm Intelligence
- Swarm Lessons for Activists
- Compiled Swarming Notes
- Tactics for Interviewing Public Figures
- Demotech Design for Self-Reliance, handy construction manuals for your tactical needs
- The Definitive Guide to Fences, from the Democratic Front for the Removal of Obstacles in Our Way
- Delia Smith’s Basic Blockading
Training Agendas
- Direct Action, Blockade, and Mobile Tactics Training Agenda
- Sample Mobile Street Tactics Training for Direct Action, from the RANT Collective
- Street Tactics Training – used in Genoa, July 2001
- Blockade Training Notes
- Street Tactics Exercises, from the RANT Collective
Affinity Groups
- Affinity Groups
- History of Affinity Groups
- Together: Booklet to Form Affinity Groups
- 1st Affinity Group Meeting Sample Agenda
- Direct Action Roles for Affinity Groups
- Affinity Group Legal Support Forms
- What are Clusters & Spokescouncils?
Legal
- How to do group legal support for people who may risk arrest
- Instructions to Legal Observers
- Legal Manual for Demonstrations, by the DC Justice & Solidarity Collective, some of it is DC specific, but much of it can be applied generally
- How to Do Legal Support for Small(er) Actions, from the Midnight Special Law Collective
- Coming out of Jail Stronger, by Starhawk
- Organizing in Jail, from the RANT Collective
- Jail & Court Solidarity, by the Midnight Special Law Collective and Katya Komisaruk
- Solidarity Tactics Used in Seattle, DC, and Los Angeles, examples and analysis from November 1999 – August 2000
- Some Tips on Security Culture
- American Civil Liberties Union,offers support on civil litigation to defend rights, offers resources including downloadable on “know your rights card”.
- Just Cause Law Collective Great downloadable handbooks for legal and jail preps, legal observer handbooks, & activist handbooks.
- National Lawyers Guild, offers criminal defense work for protests, online resources and all around good legal ally for political movements
Media
Health Ensure
- Staying Safe and Sensible in Action
- Activist Guide to First Aid
- Responding to Trauma in Protests and Mass Mobilizations
- What you should know about trauma and healing
- Crisis Fact Sheet: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Training Tips for Less-Lethal Weapons
- Street Medic Training Agenda
Action Communications (Comms)
- Activist Communications, by Longwire, the technology has definitely advanced a few years since this was written, but most of it is still accurate and useful
- Comms for Mass Actions, by Lisa
Direct Action Manuals
- Direct Action Handbook, from Luxembourg 2006 (in English)
- Direct Action Campaign Organizing Manual, from the RANT Collective
- Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns, War Resistors League International, excellent online manual
- Nonviolent Action Handbook by Sanderson Beck
- Ruckus Action Planning Manual,known for their action camps and visibility action, here are some good how to’s
- SOAW Handbook for Nonviolent Action organized and comprehensive, lots of good stuff