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Start an Action Group
This article by George Lakey is about the ingredients needed to start an action group that’s strong enough to launch a campaign.
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Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically says Yes
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
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Overcoming Despair and Apathy to Win Democracy
Lessons on movement building from one of the founders of the Serbian student movement that brought down dictator Slobodan Milosevic.
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The Dilemma of Growth in the Group: Primary and Secondary Systems
This excerpt from Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership explores the dilemma of growth in groups and outlines primary and secondary organisation systems.
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Should Fighting for Democracy Take Priority over Building Powerful Social Movements?
Activists throughout history have put social movement work on hold for the electoral arena. Determining whether to do so is a matter of strategy and calling.
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Identity Groups to Build Diversity and Power
This extract from the book Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership outlines the value of identity groups, also known as caucuses and affinity spaces.
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Know your Allies your Opponents and Everyone in Between: The Spectrum of Allies
The Spectrum of Allies – a campaign strategy tool developed by George Lakey & Martin Oppenheimer designed to determine allies, opponents and all those in between in a campaign.
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Why Campaigns, Not Protests, Get the Goods
George Lakey says it’s time to retire one-off protests in favour of direct action campaigns to maximize the chance of winning victories.
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How to Start a Direct Action Group to Make Martin Luther King Proud
George Lakey shares a ‘recipe’ on what it takes to create a thriving direct action group – wisdom built up over many years from trial and error.
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What the US can Learn from Scandinavia in the Struggle Against Inequality
In this interview, George Lakey explains what lessons can be learned from how movements in Scandinavia won and secured their egalitarian economic model.
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