Workshop and Training Curriculum
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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
- 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
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
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