* 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
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- 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 article
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- Ralph Nader’s Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State plus 25 Reforms Ripe for “Convergent Action”
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- WorldCat.org: The world’s largest library catalog of materials online.
- CreativeCommons.org
- JSTOR (Journal Storage): digitized peer-reviewed scholarly and literary journals, academic monographs, research reports, and primary sources from libraries’ special collections and archives; plus full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals; used by over 10,000 institutions in more than S160 countries. Most access is by subscription but some public domain, and open access content is available free
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