Introduction
A toolkit for grassroots groups that explores how power works and how powerful we can be when people act together in common cause and solidarity with each other.
The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.
This zine by Tipping Point UK is for anyone who’s ever felt powerless in the face of the multiple crises we are living through today. You can work through the printed version with any group you are a part of. It covers how to build your group membership and local power, how to take strategic and creative action, and how to connect your group and build solidarity with other groups and movements, and lots more!
The truth is we have the power. We just need to learn how to wield it.
Contents
We have the Power: An Introduction
Reframing Power
Pillars of Support
Momentum Organising
Our Groups are like Onions
Grow your Group
Tech Tools for Organisers
Unions and Strikes
Connect your Group
Care and Repair Toolkit
Defund Climate Chaos
Case Study: How to Stop and Oilfield
Climate Reparations
Don’t pay Polluters, Make Polluters pay
Get Creative
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Excerpts
Download Resource
- Movement Power: A Toolkit for Building People Power in a Time of Crisis (PDF)
- Order printed copies from Tipping Point UK (only in the UK)
About the Author
Tipping Point UK is a small collaborative team with a big ambition. Our organising team brings together decades of experience of supporting grassroots groups in the climate justice, gender justice, racial justice and social justice movements. They are a small, non-hierarchical collective of organisers who believe passionately in centering care, equity and liberation in the ways they work together and with the movements and groups they support. They have helped build some of the biggest grassroots mobilisations, actions and climate campaigns of the last decade.
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