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Organizing Resources
An entry point to channel your desire for change into actionable, material steps within the Women's Liberation Movement.
AORTA
AORTA is a worker-owned cooperative of facilitators, coaches, and consultants devoted to movements for liberation.
Campaign Bootcamp
Campaign Bootcamp was a UK-based charity that gave people the skills, confidence and community to run powerful campaigns. The organisation, which closed in March 2022, ran campaigning trainings for marginalised activists and communities. This is a legacy website, intended to capture the impact and key points of the organisation's journey, as well as training resources for organisers and campaigners. The website is no longer updated. Therefore, some of the content may be out of date.
Labor Notes
Labor Notes is a media and organizing project that has been the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement since 1979.
The Change Agency
The Change Agency is an independent social movement education initiative. We support community organisers in the Australia Pacific region to win social and environmental change.
The Commons Social Change Library
An online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, advocacy and justice.
How-to Wheatpaste
Street Art 101: How to Make a Wheatpaste Poster
By Yumi SakugawaHow-to Make a Zine
Let's Make A Zine!
By Sara CapelloRedstockings Publication 1969
Includes the first Redstockings literature list, as it appeared in the FBI's files; 1969 seed papers on consciousness-raising; the Redstockings Manifesto (1969), Pat Mainardi's The Politics of Housework (1969), Irene Peslikis' "Resistances to Consciousness," and many other pro-woman line classics, including those of founding Redstocking Ellen Willis (1969).
Daughters of The Great Divide: The Female Separatist Manifesta by Sasha S Graham
A formative text to guide radical feminists in their mission and values as organizers.
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw
Mapping the Margins is an important text by scholar Kimberle Crenshaw that helps to guide organizer's mission and values around intersectionality (intertwinement)
Organized People Have Power Handout
The Organized People Have Power Handout contains wonderful illustrations to help visualize how to structure the power and control we have in order to change things.
Shared governance and working in circles
The Shared governance and working in circles guide helps organizers to understand different styles of governance and the basics of building your circle of leaders.
Solidarity Economy Diagram
The Solidarity Economy Diagram, though not a specific model based in gynocratic study, serves us as a tool to imagine our future female economic structures.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman
The Tyranny of
Structurelessness
is a sharp reminderfor organizers on why governance, balanced hierarchies, and order matter in our success to change things.Anti-Oppressive Facilitation for Democratic Process Making Meetings Awesome for Everyone by Aorta
A guide on how to factor the realities of oppression into the meeting spaces you build.
Building Movement Conversations Guide
Building Movement Conversations: Engaging to End Violence Against Girls and Women through the Move to End Violence Vision & Pivots is a great overview on the nuts and bolts of running effective meetings.
How-to Have An Organizing Conversation
Labor Note's guide on organizing conversations to activate others around an issue.
The Spiral Model Handout and Diagram
The Spiral Model Handout and Diagram gives an overview of Paulo Freire's work in Popular Education. In particular, the idea "that people bring their own knowledge and experience into the process."
Distributed Organizing - Blueprints for Change
Distributed Organizing - Blueprints for Change
Grassroots Collective Project Planning Handbook - Resource 3
SWOT Analysis Template with Instructions
Operation WILT by Sistaseparatist
Operation WILT by Sistaseparatist
Power Mapping Tool - ALA Legisaltive Toolkit
Power Mapping Tool Template
Power Mapping 101: How
Communities Can Make Connections
and Improve Park AccessPower Mapping 101: How
Communities Can Make Connections
and Improve Park Access is a real-world example of power maps in action and how they can help guide a specific campaign.Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning An Issue Into A Campaign
Secrets of a Successful Organizer Turning An Issue Into A Campaign by Labornotes
Sites of Power - Power Mapping Handout
Power Mapping - Campaign Bootcamp
The Change Agency Strategising for Change Grid
The Change Agency Strategising for Change Grid is a quick 1-page guide to strategic planning.
Building a Base for Community Organizing - One on One Meetings
Building a Base for Community Organizing - One on One Meetings
Building Teams: Broadening the Base for Leadership
Building Teams: Broadening the Base for Leadership
Evaluating Community Organizing - Grassroots Action and Learning for Social Change
Evaluating Community Organizing - Grassroots Action and Learning for Social Change
Monitoring Your Network's Health
Monitoring Your Network's Health