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 the Building Blocks of Change, along with some others. Action Planning Resources: tools and resources for planning actions, including tactics, affinity groups, legal support, health, media, communications, direct action manuals, and training agendas Action Planning Template: a template for planning effective actions Anti-Oppression Resources: articles, exercises, tools, and links to trainers groups Campaign Planning: overview of how to plan a direct action campaign Campaign Planning Tools: a variety of power maps for strategizing Campaign Planning Worksheet: use this to plan out the phases of your campaign Corporate Research: tools...
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 brutal Serbian dictator. History is a Weapon by Bill Moyer Eight Stages of Movement Development – PDF Version Movement Stages 5 Stages of Social Movements, by George Lakey, Training for Change Strategy Questions for Each Stage of a Movement, by George Lakey, Training for Change Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns, War Resistors League International, excellent online manual Strategic Resistance: Historical and Theoretical Overview of Nonviolent Social Change Six Important Points About Nonviolent Resistance, based on writings by Martin Luther King Jr. The Triple Evils of Poverty, Racism, and War, from the King Center...
Corporate Research
Researching Corporations, Institutions, and Power-Holders Research for Radicals a how-to guide for activists of all kinds… TheyRule.net map out relationships between the U.S. ruling class and top companies (current as of 2004, but much of it is still good) DataCenter Research tools designed to help organizers and activists think strategically about the role of information in developing actions and campaigns and to provide a practical guide for doing effective campaign research CorpWatch: Hands-On Corporate Research Guide this interactive guide will take you step by step through researching corporations on the internet Corporate Research Project a non-profit center that assists community, environmental and labor organizations in researching and analyzing companies and industries. Guide to Researching Your Campus a 20...
Resources in Spanish
GROUPOS DE AFINIDAD Y CONSEIO DE POATAVOCES CONSENSO NO ES UNANIMIDAD DECISIONES TOMADAS CON ESPÍRITU DE COOPERACIÓN HERRAMIENTAS PARA GRUPOS QUE USAN EL PROCESO DE CONSENSO LOGRANDO QUE LA NO VIOLENCIA FUNCIONE HERRAMIENTAS PARA GRUPOS QUE USAN EL PROCESO DE...
Action Planning Template
Click Here to Download Action Planning Template Goals what are we trying to accomplish – concrete, tangible, winnable. What does victory look like? What do you want the headline to read the next day? Target who has the power to decide? Who are we trying to impact/move, what is strategic reason for it/them. If there are multiple sites, which is best suited for an action? Messaging & Demands what do we want our target to do, what do we want them to know. Are there other audiences besides the target? Messenger who is delivering our message? An impacted person or community leader working on a particular issue is always more powerful and credible than a talking head spokesperson....
Action Resources
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...