Organizing Guides, Manuals, Kits & Databases

• DIGITAL LIBRARY OF NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE & ARCHIVE
  (of training manuals, Rutgers University, with NVI and ICNC above)
• 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)
• MACROANALYSIS 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, TheNation 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
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• 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”

Borrow/Download Great Books, Articles & Videos Free!

• OpenLibrary.org, Archive.org, Archive-it.org, and Wayback Machine
• Open Book Project & iBiblio.org (Library of E-books)
• 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
• Public Libraries, most of which also subscribe to
  KANOPY.com, where cardholders can view thousands of free films and videos including 1,000 from The Great Courses— See if yours subscribes.
  

Also see Training Centers, Courses & Resources;
Movement for a New Society authors, books, videos;
and many more VIDEOS and FILMS.