Below you will find the best online collection of resources that we know of covering topics all across the spectrum of organizing, social change, climate justice, and much much more put together by Joshua Kahn Russell, a social action trainer with the Ruckus Society, for his website Praxis Makes Perfect. All resources are credited to the organization or individual they originated at, those without credit listed are produced by Joshua.
- 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
- 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)
- Facilitation
- 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)
- Consensus Checklist (RANT)
- Facilitation Games (Levana Saxon)
- 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)
- How to Host a Movie Night
- 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)
- 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)
- What Is News?
- Holding a media event
- Pitching Tips
- Interview Tips (RAN)
- How to Write Media Advisories and Press Releases (RAN)
- How to Write a Letter to the Editor (RAN)
- Sample Op-Ed (Opinion piece) (RAN)
- Sample Press Release
- 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
- Outreach
- Intro to Outreach
- Tips for plugging people in (Beyond the Choir & War Resisters League)
- How to Recruit Activists at an Event (Tabling) (RAN)
- Petitioning and Canvassing
- RAN Guide to Making Posters (RAN)
- Class Rap (EAC)
- Phonebanking (EAC)
- Tabling (EAC)
- Grassroots Fundraising
- 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)
Resources on Privilege, Power, Race, Class, and Gender
- Whiteness, Organizing, and Allies
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack -Peggy Mcintosh
- 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
- 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)
- 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 & Climate Justice
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