* Organizing Guides, Manuals, Kits & Databases

BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE Monthly Free Trainings
to help you use Beautiful Trouble resources, tools &
hidden gems more effectively. Most second Mondays.

• • DIGITAL LIBRARY OF NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE & ARCHIVE
    (of training manuals, Rutgers University, with NVI and ICNC).
  • GLOBAL NONVIOLENT ACTION DATABASE: Largest searchable
    compilation of campaigns and actions going back 150 years (hosted by
    Swarthmore College Peace Collection, begun by George Lakey)
  • MACRO-ANALYSIS STUDY GROUPS & START GUIDE (developed by MNSers) &
    Building a Peace System: Summary &  330-page PDF ( email Bob Irwin for readings )
  • Beautiful Trouble, Beautiful Solutions & Beautiful Rising resources:
    Tools and an international network of artist-activist trainers to
    make grassroots movements more creative and more effective
  • The Commons Social Change Library: The Activists’ Handbook,
    Coalition Building, and Ten Great Resources on Activist Well-being
  • This Is an Uprising: How nonviolent revolt is shaping the Twenty-First Century ; 2016 by Mark and Paul Engler, The Nation Books
  • The Albert Einstein Institution (founded by Dr. Gene Sharp and Robert Irwin)
  • Why Nonviolence: Free 10-page PDF; History + Methods, Theory + Relevance, Q+A, Wikipedia, READ MORE
  • Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings (May 2018)
  • Labor, Union and Worker Power: Archives, Guide and Manual
  • The People Power Manual: A resource for activist educators
  • Resource Manual for a Living Revolution (MNS 1981, aka “the Monster Manual”)
  • Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists
  • Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice by Si Kahn
  • FAIR’s Media Activism Kit, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
  • Fighting Toxics: A Manual for Protecting your Family, Community, and Workplace, from Island Press
  • Global Activist’s Manual: Local Ways to Change the World
  • Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky
  • By George Lakey
    • How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
    • Powerful Peacemaking: Strategy for a Living Revolution
    • Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right – and We Can, Too
    • Facilitating Group Learning.
  • By Dr. Gene Sharp, The Albert Einstein Institution
    • The Politics of Nonviolent Action: Volumes I to III
    • From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
    • The Anti-Coup
    • Waging Nonviolent Struggle
    • And many more books and articles.
    • Ralph Nader’s Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State plus 25 Reforms Ripe for “Convergent Action”

ORGANIZING & TRAINING BOOKS
(Also see Training Centers, Courses & Resources)