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Organising

Organising builds power by engaging and connecting people in collective action. The resources gathered here educate and inform about the craft of organising. You’ll find case studies, articles, practical tips, and training materials.

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Tech, including Artificial Intelligence, and its Relationship to Movement Politics

Explore a collection of resources from Tectonica about technology and artificial intelligence and their relationship to movement politics.

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The Definitive Distributed Organizing Guide

Distributed Organizing Guide and webinar about its potential for winning electoral campaigns, how to do it, and how to find more information.

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Mediation for Movements: Managing Intra-Movement Conflict

Explore how movements can manage internal conflict when it inevitably arises as they seek to build broad-based pro-democracy coalitions of active, passive, and unlikely allies.

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Rebuilding Public Power: Stopping Corporate Overreach

Activities, videos, and case studies that will help participants assess corporate power in their own communities and build visions for public and collective power.

Rural and Remote Communities Climate Organizing Toolkit

Toolkit aims to support climate organizers in rural & remote communities to transform themselves & their communities into climate leaders.

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Right-Sized Belonging: Six Practices For Organizers

A website and toolkit of 6 suggested practices for organizers and organizations to implement in their own spaces to create belonging.

Empowering Leaderful Organizing: Competencies & Tools

Empower your groups and movements with an A – Z list of training tools for organizing and activist work by Leaderful Organizing.

Democracy Undone: The Authoritarian’s Playbook

How populist nationalist leaders across various democracies are employing a playbook involving fear exploitation, institutional undermining, truth erosion, and more to erode democratic values and consolidate power.

Interactive, Self Paced Mini Courses on Organising: Global Organizing and Leadership Development GOLD

These online courses explore the foundations of organising, distributed leadership, social movements, and the concept of the Movement Cycle.

How Rural Organizing Can Build Power

This report about rural organizing in North Carolina, United States outlines lessons, actions and recommendations for rural organizers and communities in organizing and building political power.

Conversation Guide: Trust in Elections (Local)

Conversation Guide about democracy from Living Room Conversations who use guided conversations to build understanding & transform communities.

How to Mobilise in a Closed Country when you’re Working Remotely

This 350.org presentation shares reflections and lessons learned from organising and mobilising in China remotely from Taiwan.

Leaderful Organizing

The Leaderful Organizing Toolkit is a comprehensive resource that offers practical guidance, tools, and examples for fostering leadership and collective action within organizations and movements.

Books to Read if you are Interested in Activism, Social Change and Justice

A comprehensive and broad range of books to read if you are Interested in activism, campaigning, organising, social change and justice.

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Supporting Grassroots Justice-oriented Activists Around the World: A Year’s Worth of Learnings

Grassroots activism often lacks funding & support but the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN) has brought together organizers to tackle common challenges and share resources.

Authentic Relational Conversations: Reaching Across Difference to Build a Pro-Democracy Movement

Reaching across difference using authentic relational conversations and organising to build a pro-democracy movement in the United States.

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Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

Rules for Radicals is a book by community activist and writer Saul D. Alinsky about how to successfully run a movement for change.

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How France Fought to Keep it in the Ground: Lessons from 350 Campaigns

Rukiya, a 350.org organiser in Kenya, shares stories of how they recruited people for the African DeCOALinise Campaign.

Organizing against the Far Right

This Knowledge Roundup about organizing against the far right is from the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN).

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How to Recruit more People: Lessons from Rukiya in 350 Kenya