Resources

Lots of people want to help you be strategic and effective, because we’re all in this together! Here are some of my favorite organizing resources, as well as some relevant stuff I’ve created over the years. Feel free to add your own (favorite revolutionary sci-fi books anyone?)!

Links/Friends:

• Extensive resources compiled by a fellow trainer: Praxis Makes Perfect
• Strategic nonviolent organizing: Training for Change
• Strategic story-based organizing: New Organizing Institute
• Online organizing resource community: Build the Wheel
• Direct action: Ruckus Society
• Student organizing: Campus Activism
• Anti-Oppression: SOA Watch
• Environmental Justice: EJNet.org
• Energy justice: Energy Justice Network

Stuff I’ve Made:

Analysis

• Organizing: Lessons Learned (8/09)
• What is Environmental Justice? (4 half pages, 7/09)
• Looking Back, Turning Forward: the words of 9 student leaders (1/09)
• Year in Review: Ohio Student Evironmental Coalition (video, 8/08)

Useful Tools

• Choosing a Campaign (it’s so useful! 1/09)
• Event Planning Worksheet (a rough gem, 7/08)
• Structuring a Group (another rough gem, 12/07)
• Campus – Community Organizing Guide (24+ pages, 8/07)