CollectionTactics Toolkit

The Commons Library is building a Tactics Toolkit collection with helpful guides on a broad range of campaign actions. Each tactic guide explains what the tactic is, its benefits and challenges, and how to put it into practice. The guides also include examples and case studies (with videos), deeper resources, and links to related guides.

Do you have a tactic guide to add to the toolkit, or funds to help us build it? Reach out to The Commons librarians!

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  • Title - 'Tactics Toolkit'. 5 icons below title. 1. Person holding sign above head. 2. Two hands in a cross. 3. a person sitting crossed legged. 4. Pen and paper. 5. A circle with a line though it.

    Tactics Toolkit

    Explore guides to activist tactics: benefits and challenges, how tos, examples and case studies, in depth resources and links.

  • Text reads " Tactic: The Free Sticker". Two stickers of loudhailers.

    Tactic: The Free Sticker

    A how-to guide about the Free Sticker Tactic – a fundraising and public relations tactic that helps build supporters for a campaign.

  • Tactics: Consumer Boycotts

    A guide to organising a consumer boycott, the organised refusal to purchase or use goods and services from a business, organisation or country.

  • Title reads 'Bird-dogging'. A person speaks at a lecturn to an audience. Two people are at the side holding placards up above the heads.

    Tactic: Bird-dogging

    What is bird-dogging? The Commons librarians have compiled a starter kit: definitions, practical how-tos, and international examples to help you understand the tactic in action.

  • Title reads 'Noncooperation'. Icon of two hands held out in a X formation. Top half yellow circle reads 'Tactic'.

    Tactics: Noncooperation

    What is noncooperation? Here is a collection of resources curated by the Commons librarians about what noncooperation is, how to do noncooperation and examples from around the world.

  • Title reads 'Accountability sessions'. At the top in yellow semi-circle text reads 'Tactic'. Illustration of a group of people sitting in chairs facing a stage with three people sitting on the stage.|Diagram showing an accountability session. There is a person at a microphone standing before an audience titled "mike holder". There is a panel of four sitting at a long table on the left titled " panel". Next to the panel on the right is a single person sitting at a table that reads 'The Chair

    Tactic: Accountability Session

    In community organizing, the Accountability Session is a strategic tool used to flex collective power and force decision-makers to answer for their actions.

  • Title 'Tripods'. A person with a loudhailer stands on top of a 3 legged structure / tripod.

    Tactic: Tripods

    What are tripods? A curated collection of resources about what they are, how to use them, and examples from around the world.

  • Title reads 'Sit-ins'. A row of people sitting crossed legged on the ground. At the top in a half circle it reads 'Tactic'.

    Tactic: Sit-Ins

    What are sit-ins? Here is a curated collection of resources about what they are, how to do a sit-in, and examples from around the world.

  • Title reads 'Flash Mobs'. In half circle tab at top reads 'Tactic'. Graphic of a crowd of people.

    Tactic: Flash Mobs

    What are flash mobs? Here is a curated collection of resources about what they are, how to do a flash mob, and examples from around the world.

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