I’m in the process of building a more cohesive list of tools and resources for change agents, and hope to keep this space as an up-to-date house for all of it. Check back regularly as this is a work in progress. Some of this resource list comes to us from folks at the Energy Action Coalition and Rainforest Action Network.
Activist Tools
- Media
- An Introduction (pdf, 49k)
- What Is News? (pdf, 78k)
- Holding a media event (pdf, 77k)
- Pitching Tips (pdf, 116k)
- Interview Tips (pdf, 329k)
- How to Write Media Advisories and Press Releases (pdf, 98k)
- How to Write a Letter to the Editor (pdf, 78k)
- Sample Op-Ed (Opinion piece) (pdf, 80k)
- Sample Press Release (pdf, 237k)
- Outreach
- Intro to Outreach (pdf, 47k)
- How to Recruit Activists at an Event (Tabling) (pdf, 97k)
- Petitioning and Canvassing (pdf, 78k)
- Postering, Flyering and Stickering (pdf, 76k)
- RAN Guide to Making Posters (doc, 3.7MB)
- Class Rap
- Phonebanking
- Tabling
- Fundraising
- Fundraising 101 (pdf, 179k)
- How to Throw a House Party (pdf, 133k)
- How to Get Stuff Donated (pdf 108k)
- How to Coordinate a Raffle or Silent Auction (pdf 116k)
- Doing a Friends and Family Mailing with Sample letter (pdf, 90k)
- Fundraising Practice Scenarios (pdf, 68k)
- Nonviolent Direct Action
- Introduction to Nonviolent Direct Action (pdf, 93k)
- Get Some Action: Taking our place in the history of US socialmovements (pdf, 1.5MB)
- Shelter Under the Anti-War Umbrella – an article by activist David Solnit (pdf, 143k)
- Organizing
Resources on Privilege, Power, Race, Class, and Gender
- Race, Whiteness and Racism
- Affirmative Action Comic
- Whiteness, Organizing, and Allies
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- A Note on Guilt
- Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing (.pdf)
- How to Diversify Environmentalism?
- Student Environmentalists Learn Hard Lessons
- 15 Tools for Creating Healthy, Productive Interracial/Multicultural Communities
- The Soul of Environmentalism
- Interview with Robert Bullard (Great Environmental Justice Primer)
- Principles of Environmental Justice (.pdf)
- 10 Principles for Just Climate Change Policies in the US
- Bali Principles of Climate Justice
- We Speak for Ourselves: Indigenous peoples challenge the fossil fuel regime in Alberta
- A Climate of Change: African Americans, Global Warming and a Just Climate Policy for the US (.pdf)
- Opening Pandora’s Box: Adding Classism to the Agenda
- Wanna Talk Values? (Class and Race intersections and classism among African Americans)
- Cross Class Dialogue
- Elite Colleges Must Give Low-Income Students the Tools to Succeed
- Internalized Oppression and Disability
Building a Racially Diverse and Anti-Oppressive Movement
Environmental Justice
Class
Activist resources links
- The Ruckus Society’s Training Manuals — Action training for activists
- National Lawyers Guild — Legal info for protesters
- Midnight Special Law Collective — Legal training and support for activists
- The Spin Project — Media guides for activists
[...] alongside us. For resources on social movements and organizing, I’ve started to compile a short list of resources here. Also see great training organizations like School of Unity and Liberation, Training for Change, [...]
[...] alongside us. For resources on social movements and organizing, I’ve started to compile a short list of resources here. Also see great training organizations like School of Unity and Liberation, Training for Change, [...]
[...] Resources for activists and organizers [...]