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A collection of resources to strengthen our community and build the skills we need for strategic noncooperation and effective nonviolent resistance.
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Resilience Pod Toolkit
A guide to starting or strengthening a neighborhood resilience pod. Step-by-step guide, tips for hosting events, recommended activities, templates and more. By The Juneau Street Resilience Pod.
Sources of Transforming Power
An activity guide for exploring personal and shared sources of power to promote more inclusive and transformative forms of power. By We Rise.
Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities
Report that explores the details of the Twin Cities' evolving Rapid Response system for the benefit of others around the country who may soon be facing similar pressures. By CrimethInc.
Lessons Learned from Parents During ICE/CBP Occupation
Guide includes info on school patrols, rapid response near schools, supporting community needs, how allies can prepare, and talking with kids about ICE/CBP. By anonymous parents in Chicago.
Manual Sobre Seguridad
Manual práctico para defensores de derechos humanos en riesgo que ayuda a evaluar amenazas, identificar vulnerabilidades y crear planes de seguridad personal y organizacional, con estrategias, ejercicios y consejos para distintos contextos. Por Front Line Defenders.
“We the People”: Whose Rights Does the Constitution Protect?
Free lesson plan designed to help students consider not just what the Constitution says, but what it leaves out. By Zinn Education Project.
Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook
Workbook with exercises to build collective self-awareness and conflict resilience within community-building and social movement groups. By the Movement Strategy Center.
Community Defense Zone Starter Guide
A guide to Community Defense Zone campaigns. Geared towards creating community-based sanctuary, countering criminalization, and changing policies at local and state levels. By Power Shift Network.
What is pod mapping, and how to do it
Learn how to build pods to practice and cultivate liberation and establish a more connected way of living that resists isolation. By SOIL Transformative Justice Project.
Making Space for Uncomfortable Emotions
This guide aims to foster deeper and more compassionate connections for individuals and groups. By Transition Network.
Action Kit to Protect Student Immigrants
Demands to make for protecting immigrant students, policies and procedures, and tools for organizing. By Alliance for Educational Justice and Advancement Project.
No Secret Police: Policy Guide for Local Electeds
A list of recommended actions and policies to protect our communities from ICE and military deployments. Also includes framing and messaging guidance. By Local Progress.
How You Can Protect Democracy
29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect democracy and gain knowledge, relief, and power, but also joy, fun, and community. By Protect Democracy.
Training Agendas
Off-the-shelf training agendas to use and adapt to your own needs. Covering a variety of topics from Mutual Aid 101 to Action Security and De-escalation. By Choose Democracy.
Community Defense Resource Hub
Event templates and shareable graphics, resources, trainings that can be customized for local actions, events, and KYR tools. By La Siembra / Defend & Recruit
Movement Memos
Interviews with activists, journalists, and more to process what's happening and what to do to strengthen the movement and mutual aid efforts. Hosted by organizer and author Kelly Hayes.
The Fascism Barometer
Interviews and info to help identify patterns of fascism, demystify what’s happening, highlight what to focus on, and offer concrete tools and actions. Hosted by organizer and strategist Ejeris Dixon.
The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook
A Substack with analyses, framework and strategies to defend democracy, resist authoritarianism, and build lasting power. By movement builder Scot Nakagawa.
Mutual Aid 101
An organizing toolkit and ongoing learning series to introduce mutual aid organizing—from starting a group to sustaining it for the long haul. By Shareable.