Resources
This website is full of resources for organizers, activists, students, journalists, or anyone trying to learn about creating positive social change. The resources are broken up into section corresponding with…
Organizing for Power
The content of this website is based on the notes I use for training and split into “building blocks for change,” each with analysis, tools, and resources to help you…
Strategy Resources
From Dictatorship to Democracy, PDF Version: http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action & Strategies, Manual from the folks who help create Otpur, the people power movement that overthrew Slobadan Milosevic, the…
Movement History
This section contains historical documents from past campaigns and mobilizations, as well as pages with stories and resources from various campaigns I've been part of, including pages dedicated to Abbie…
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…