Activist Tools: Progressive Change Resources
& More: Analysis, Vision, Strategy, Action
Web portal of the best resources for effective activism on all issues
LATEST LINKS & RESOURCES:
- Beautiful Trouble: Free monthly trainings. Find more.
- JOB: Earth Quaker Action Team Director of Strategy & Partnerships in Philadelphia
- How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements free booklet (2022)
- More Books & Resources from Movement for a New Society alums
- Ukraine and Nonviolent Resistance
- How to Rig an Election: The RACIST History of the 1876 Presidential Contest: Share Tom Hanks’/Washington Post 7-min. film
- The Movement and the ‘Madman film free on PBS American Experience or Passport: How activists used strategic nonviolent action to build a movement and thwart Nixon’s plan to nuclear bomb Vietnam
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George Lakey’s memoir tour of over 100 author events. Lakey (age 85) shares lessons and memories from six decades of nonviolent action and strategy. Email to schedule a fall gig near you. More. |
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Download Free: How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements by Steve Chase (2022, 45 pages), from Solidarity 2020 and Beyond and ICNC Press. OR Order the paperback or e-book copies. See George Lakey’s review in WagingNonviolence.org and the trailer to Lakey’s bio-doc.
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The Democracy Crisis: Danger & Opportunity
– President Jimmy Carter 2016
A shocking landmark Princeton Study (PDF) has found that Americans have a near-zero impact on public policy, and politicians represent only the most wealthy and powerful (“The 1%“), not us! Clip below: Strategy to End Corruption (5-min.) from Represent.US.
“Follow the money!” – Watergate whistleblower Deep Throat
The tools on this site are key to effective organizing to restore democracy and force needed change now, just as activists did in the “Progressive Era,” the 1930s New Deal, and the 1960s.
More Best Articles, Actions and Campaigns:
- Visit ChooseDemocracy.us
- Princeton Study (of 1800 policies) finds public opinion has “near-zero” impact on US law, due to Congress’ corruption [5-min. Video]
- “How to Win through Escalation” as taught by
Women’s Suffrage Movement 100 years on - Help Black Lives Matter end systemic racism
- Climate justice means justice for black lives [ 350.org]
- Justice during 2 crises: COVID & Climate Change
- Intersectionality Videos: 3-min. and 30-min. TED Talk
- Read Naomi Klein’s “Hope Trumps Nope: A Blueprint for Resistance” in Sierra magazine
“Be the change you seek.”- M.K. Gandhi
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The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements” - The 4 Roles of Activists: Effective vs. Counterproductive
- The 8 Stages of Social Movements
- Strategy and Tactics Overview by Bill Moyer
- Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment
- Polarization
- Beautiful Trouble
- Macro-analysis
- Elections, Voting and Lobbying
- Why Nonviolence?
- NonviolenceInternational.net
- Gandhi, King, Thoreau & Tolstoy
- Gene Sharp & the Albert Einstein Institution
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strategists George Lakey and Bill Moyer - Organizations
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UKRAINE: Latest analysis, resistance, strategy
Margaret Mead, anthropologist, 1978 Planetary Citizen of the Year
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Activist Tools: Progressive Change Resources & More
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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