Resources for Organizers
Adapted from a list by: Joshua Kahn Russell
https://joshuakahnrussell.wordpress.com/resources-for-activists-and-organizers/
Check out Build The Wheel – new wiki resource for organizers to share curriculum and training tools. A lot of this curriculum was adapted from, or developed by these outstanding training organizations: the Ruckus Society, Movement Generation, smartMeme, Training for Change, Beyond the Choir, Midnight Special Law Collective, Organizing for Power, and School for Unity and Liberation (SOUL)
Activist Tools
Nonviolent Direct Action & Civil Disobedience
Action Strategy & Planning Manual (Ruckus Society)
Overview of Nonviolent Direct Action (Trapeze Collective)
Downloadable Booklet: 198 Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion (Gene Sharp)
198 Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion (Gene Sharp)
Story Based Strategies for Action Design (smartMeme)
Shelter Under the Anti-War Umbrella (Solnit)
Scouting Manual (Ruckus)
Creative Direct Action Visuals Manual (Ruckus)
Direct Action Planning Steps (Ruckus)
Balloon Banner Manual (Ruckus)
Bird-Dogging (Ruckus)
Action Planning Manual (Ruckus)
Know Your Rights (Midnight Special Law Collective)
ACLU Guide to Civil Disobedience at Public Universities (ACLU)
Finding Tactics that Matter training tool (Training for Change)
Strategy Tools
Tactics to Strategy intro training agenda (Training for Change)
Three Circles Eco-Justice / Climate Justice Strategy (Movement Generation)
Tactic Star (Beyond The Choir)
Spectrum of Allies (Training for Change)
Spectrum of Allies part 2 (Organizing for Power)
Moving your allies training tool (Training for Change)
Story Based Strategy Campaign Model (smartMeme)
Stages of Movement Development (George Lakey)
Strategizing for a Living Revolution: 5 Stages for Social Movements (George Lakey)
The Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements (Bill Moyer)
Narrative Power Analysis (Beautiful Trouble)
Battle of the Story Worksheet (smartMeme)
Defining Strategy tool: Blanket Game (Training for Change)
Influence Map Worksheet (smartMeme)
Points of Intervention Worksheet (smartMeme)
Goal Setting tool: paper plate challenge (Training for Change)
Building a Successful Antiwar Movement (Beyond the Choir)
TFC Strategy Game (Training for Change)
Macro-Strategy Tug-of-war (Training for Change)
From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation (Gene Sharp – used by Tahrir Square organizers in Egypt)
Facilitation
56 Games, Warm-Ups, and Energizers (Levana Saxon & Joshua Kahn Russell)
Tips for Good Facilitators (Results Through Training)
Flip Chart Chart: Graphic Facilitation Techniques (Christine Valenca & Helen Spector)
Hints for Facilitators (Casagordita)
Taking Stock of Taking Stack (Training for Change)
How To Make Meetings Work in a Culturally Diverse Group (Lee Gardenswartz & Anita Rowe)
GAMES, WARM UPS, AND ENERGIZERS (Levana Saxon and Joshua Kahn Russell)
Sample Facilitation Training curriculum (Lisa Fithian)
Meeting Facilitation: the No-Magic Method (Berit Lakey)
Organizing
Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing
Understanding The Role of an Organizer training tool (SOUL)
How to Organize a Demonstration
Tornado Warning: 4 roles of social change agents training tool (Training for Change)
Thoughts and Exercises on Power (Lisa Fithian)
Organizer Training: fear and power [oriented toward Unions] (Lisa Fithian)
Organizational Self-Assessment training tool (SOUL)
198 Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion (Gene Sharp)
Media
Media Manual (Ruckus)
Spokesperson Tips (smartMeme)
Values Based Messaging tool (Wellstone Action)
Why Stories Matter (Marshall Ganz)
Outreach
Tips for plugging people in (Beyond the Choir & War Resisters League)
Class Rap (EAC)
Phonebanking (EAC)
Tabling (EAC)
Full Toolkits
Youth Organizing for Community Power / Movement Building (SOUL)
Progressive Communicators Network Toolbox (PCN)
Get Some Action: Taking our place in the history of US social movements (Joshua Kahn Russell w/ Gopal Dayanenni, Sharon Lungo, Madeline Gardner)
Training for Trainers [order form for hard copy](SOUL)
Diversity and Anti-Oppression training tools (Training for Change)
Indigenous Peoples’ Guide, False Solutions to Climate Change (Indigenous Environmental Network)
Rainforest Action Network Corporate Campaigning Activist Manual (RAN)
Recursos en español
Iconoclasistas (Sitio completo de herramientas de la activista, desde Argentina)
Resources on Privilege, Power, Race, Class, and Gender
Building a Racially Diverse and Anti-Oppressive Movement
Environmental Justice & Climate Justice
Interview with Robert Bullard (Great Environmental Justice Primer)
Eco-Justice People’s Movement Assembly Resolution (U.S. Social Forum)
Climate Justice Now! North America Manifesto (Climate Justice Now! North America)
Principles of Environmental Justice (.pdf)
10 Principles for Just Climate Change Policies in the US
Bali Principles of Climate Justice
Climate Justice Fact Sheet (Corpwatch)
We Speak for Ourselves: Indigenous peoples challenge the fossil fuel regime in Alberta (Dominion)
A Climate of Change: African Americans, Global Warming and a Just Climate Policy for the US (EJCC)
Class
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Recommended Readings
A Call to Innovation! (smartMeme)
Strategizing for a Living Revolution: 5 Stages for Social Movements (George Lakey)
Capitalism vs The Climate (Naomi Klein, “The Nation”)
The Power of Nonviolent Direct Action – Daniel Hunter (final) (Daniel Hunter)
Decolonizing the Revolutionary Imagination (Patrick Reinsboro)
Eco-Justice People’s Movement Assembly Resolution (U.S. Social Forum)
Climate Justice Now! North America Manifesto (Climate Justice Now! North America)
The Gulf Oil Spill: A Hole in the World (Naomi Klein)
The Soul of Environmentalism: Rediscovering Transformational Politics in the 21st Century (Michel Gelobter, Michael Dorsey, Leslie Fields, Tom Goldtooth, Anuja Mendiratta, Richard Moore, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Peggy M. Shepard, and Gerald Torres)
Environmental Justice Leadership Forum on Climate Change, Principles of Climate Justice (2009)
Interview with Robert Bullard (Great Environmental Justice Primer)
Principles of Environmental Justice
10 Principles for Just Climate Change Policies in the US
Bali Principles of Climate Justice
It’s Too Late to Compromise on Climate (Mateo Nube)
How to Break the Climate Stalemate Between the Global South and the North (Gopal Dayaneni, Mateo Nube)
War, Climate Change and Women (Movement Generation)
The Case for Holistic Economic Transformation (Movement Generation)
Resilient Cities: Building Community Control (Movement Generation)
Carbon Fundamentalism vs. Climate Justice (Gopal Dayaneni)
Mapping the Terrain: Campaign Research March 2009 (Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan)
Climate Justice – A Global View, Colorlines (Gopal Dayaneni)
Principles of Earth Democracy (Vandana Shiva)
What’s Fair? Consumers and Climate Change, Redefining Progress (K. Ansje Miller)
The Right to Ecological Development, Left Turn (Jeff Conant)
This is What Denial Does (George Monbiot)
Who Gains from the Green Economy, Colorlines (Preeti Mangal, Tram Nguyen)
Food, Finance and Climate, Triple Crisis, A Three-Fold Opportunity (Vandana Shiva)
Green Market Hustlers (M.K. Dorsey)
What’s Missing from the Climate Talks? Justice! (Friends of the Earth International)
Indigenous Peoples’ Guide, False Solutions to Climate Change (Indigenous Environmental Network)
The City That Ended Hunger (Frances Moore Lappe, Belo Horizonte)
Who Says You Can’t Change The World, Just Economies and Societies in an Unjust Planet (Beverly Bell and Other Worlds Collective)
A Call To Innovation (smartMeme)
Rich, Poor and Climate Change (Rachel Oliver, CNN)
The Poor Are Hit the Hardest By Climate Change, But Contribute the Least to it (Seattle PI, Poplock)
The Climate Gap– Poor Minorities Hardest Hit By Climate Change, New American Media (Ngoc Nugyen)
The Global Water Crisis (Maude Barlow)
Water Wars, Excerpts from Water Wars Book (Vandana Shiva)
An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism, Militarism and the The Environment (Winona La Duke)
Greenhouse Gangsters vs. Climate Justice, Corpwatch (Kenny Bruno, Joshua Karliner, & China Brotsky)
Anti-Racism for Global Justice reader (Catalyst Project)
Decolonize This! reader (Catalyst Project)
Leadership Development and Collective Liberation reader (Catalyst Project)