Workshop and Training Curriculum

We will share training and workshop curriculum for topics raised in OCP here. Email us to share yours! organizingcoolstheplanet@gmail.com

The tools below and many more at www.praxismakesperfect.org

Diagram from Movement Generation's "Three Circles Strategy" in Organizing Cools the Planet

• 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)
  • Spectrum of Allies part 3: moving your allies training tool (Training for Change)
  • Story Based Strategy Campaign Model (smartMeme)
  • Campaign Strategy and Planning
  • 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
  • smartMeme intro to Narrative Power Analysis and Story Based Strategy (smartMeme)
  • Battle of the Story Worksheet (smartMeme)
  • Defining Strategy tool: Blanket Game (Training for Change)
  • Power Map / Influence Map (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)
• Nonviolent Direct Action & Civil Disobedience
  • Overview of Nonviolent Direct Action (Trapeze Collective)
  • Introduction to Nonviolent Direct Action (RAN)
  • 198 Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion (Gene Sharp)
  • Story Based Strategies for Action Design (smartMeme)
  • Shelter Under the Anti-War Umbrella (David Solnit)
  • Scouting Manual (Ruckus)
  • Eco-Justice Action Ideas (Ruckus)
  • Creative Direct Action Visuals Manual (Ruckus)
  • Direct Action Planning Steps (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)
• 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)
  • Organizational Self-Assessment training tool (SOUL)
  • How to Pass a Local Resolution
• Media
  • Media Manual (Ruckus)
  • Spokesperson Tips (smartMeme)
  • Values Based Messaging tool (Wellstone Action)
  • What’s in a Meme? (smartMeme)
  • Why Stories Matter (Marshall Ganz)
  • Frank Luntz’s Playbook (a right-wing guide to media and messaging instructing Republicans on how to create a values-shift to the Right -Frank Luntz

• Full Toolkits
  • NOI Toolbox (New Organizing Institue)
  • Youth Organizing for Community Power / Movement Building (SOUL)
  • Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!)(smartMeme)
  • Movement Generation Eco-Justice Curriculum Manual (Movement Generation)
  • 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)

Recursos en español

• Iconoclasistas (Sitio completo de herramientas de la activista, desde Argentina)

Building an Inclusive Movement

• A Note on Guilt
• Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing
• Student Environmentalists Learn Hard Lessons (SEAC)
• 15 Tools for Creating Healthy, Productive Interracial/Multicultural Communities
• The Soul of Environmentalism

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

• 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

More…

• Internalized Oppression and Disability

Recommended Readings

• Decolonizing the Revolutionary Imagination – Patrick Reinsboro
• Out of the Spiritual Closet: Organizers Transforming the Practice of Social Justice Movement Strategy Center
• Eco-Justice People’s Movement Assembly Resolution – U.S. Social Forum
• Climate Justice Now! North America Manifesto – Climate Justice Now! North America
• Strategizing for a Living Revolution: 5 Stages for Social Movements – George Lakey
• Frank Luntz’s Playbook (a right-wing guide to media and messaging instructing Republicans on how to create a values-shift to the Right -Frank Luntz
• 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, Urban Habitat
• The Case for Holistic Economic Transformation, Urban Habitat
• Resilient Cities: Building Community Control – Movement Generation
• Carbon Fundamentalism vs. Climate Justice Urban Habitat [PDF] – 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
• Policy Link, Healthy Food for All: Building Equitable and Healthy Food Systems in Detroit and Oakland
• 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
• On The Threshold of a 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