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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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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.
SWOT Analysis
How to assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to identify best case, missed opportunity, mobilization scenario, and worst case options. By Beautiful Trouble.
Cybersecurity and Privacy for Activists
How to encrypt your communications, protect your identity and anonymity online, secure your electronic devices, and an overview of legal considerations. By Museum of Protest.
Surveillance Self-Defense
Tips, tools, and how-tos for safer online communications. Guides for installing secure apps and explanations of common security scenarios. By Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Power Mapping
Step-by-step process for mapping power dynamics to identify your primary target, then design a campaign strategy to pressure them to make the right decision. By Beautiful Trouble.
Points of Intervention
A guide to identifying pressure points where you can take action to interrupt business as usual and press for change. Six types of points are discussed. By Beautiful Trouble.
Nonviolent Direct Action Toolkit & Resources
A practical guide to NVDA, featuring links, tips, and best practices for newcomers, first-time action planners, and those with experience, with a particular focus on utility for elders.
Freedom Over Fascism Toolkit
Tools and information to join the fight effectively, with an emphasis on narrative and messaging. Includes general best practices as well as specific guidance for current events. By ASO Communications.
10 Principles in the Face of State Repression
Suggested principles for activists and organizers to build stronger movements in the face of surveillance and repression. By Catalyst Project.
SMART Objectives For a Successful Campaign
Strong campaigns are built on a series of short- and medium-term SMART objectives that function as intermediary steps towards a more ambitious campaign goal. By Beautiful Trouble.
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
Digital Security Checklists for Activists
Plain language guides for digital security, regularly updated and built from real organizing work and direct feedback from activists. By the Neighborhood Anarchist Collective.
The Redline Workbook
Practical tool for analyzing the pillars that uphold authoritarianism with a focus on triggers and noncooperation tactics to make them backfire.
De-Google Your Digital Life
A step-by-step action plan to leaving Google's ecosystem. It’s designed to be done over a year, one manageable step at a time.
Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence
Designed to help individuals and groups uphold democracy and counter political violence. Available in English and Spanish. By Hardy Merriman.
Rapid Response Action Plan for Faith Communities
A 10-step action plan to equip faith communities to respond immediately when ICE threatens undocumented individuals and families. By Vote Common Good.
Beautiful Trouble Toolbox
Illustrates the key tactics, principles, methodologies, theories and stories that have inspired centuries of people-powered victories. One part direct action manual, and one part training guide for mass organizing and collective liberation.
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.