ACTIVISTTOOLS:
Training & Organizing Resources

Much here is based on “analysis, vision and strategy” of  Movement for a New Society
(MNS 1971-1988), allied organizations, and the highly effective ongoing campaigns and
movements they continue to inform and inspire. Find more at ActivistTools.org,
MovementforaNewSociety.org, MNS Authors+Books, and key and historic resources
and records from scores of activist NGOs, in the Swarthmore Library Peace Collection.
Email us at: Activist (AT) ActivistTools.org
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See Bill Moyer’s final training video and
his highly acclaimed Movement Action Plan,
plus 8 Stages, 4 Roles and Strategy below.
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Training Centers, Trainers, Courses,
Webinars, Workshops & More

NOTE: An * indicates those founded or largely led by MNS alumni

• *Training For Change: Movement Capacity Building at the Grassroots
• *Class Action: Inspiring and teaching activism to end classism
• *Nonviolence International (NVI), archive, database, webinars, internships; DC
• *International Center on Nonviolent Conflict  (ICNC)
• *United for a Fair Economy: Toolkit, workshops, guides, charts, reports, events
• TheChangeAgency.org: An extensive library of activist education
  and training resources to achieve social and environmental justice
• Center for Third World Organizing: To help build and sustain
  a thriving racial justice movement led by communities  of color
• CWA: Labor, Union and Worker Power: Archives, Guide and Manual
• Highlander Research and Education Center : Grassroots organizing
  and movement building in Appalachia and the South
• *Institute for Policy Studies: Wash., DC (See Chuck Collins and John Feffer)
• James Lawson Institute: Training for nonviolent direct action and civil rights
• Midwest Academy (also its  Community Organizing Internship )
• Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership
• *Sociocracy For All: Egalitarian self-governance, facilitation skills,
  Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and guide, “Many Voices One Song”
• Youth Activism Project: Helps teens build skills, networks and resources to lead 
• *Waging Nonviolence: News, Analysis and 8 skills of a well-trained activist
• ActivistToolbox.com: New site offers tools, info and advice for effective action
• MORE LINKS for Activist Training: Nonviolent Change Resources, Skills, More
  • ACLU People Power Resistance Training
  • Green Corps
  • Global Voice Training with Dr. Naomi Wolf
  • Sierra Club Activist Training Series (environment and energy)

Organizing Guides, Manuals, Kits & Databases

The Movement Action Plan (MAP):
8 Stages, 4 Roles, Campaign Strategy

“Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements.”
This essential guide provides the most usable theory and working model for understanding and analyzing citizen movements and how they can best succeed in the long term. Bill Moyer (with co-authors JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley and Steven Soifer), brilliantly compare MAP to nine popular models of social movements taught at universities, and apply MAP to five social movements: civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, gay and lesbian rights, breast cancer, and anti-corporate globalization. They conclude with a chapter on the future of activist strategies.

• Four Roles of Activists: Effective vs. Counterproductive
• The 8 Stages of Social Movements
• SLIDESHOW: 7 Graphic charts explain MAP’s 8 Stages
• Strategy and Tactics Overview by Bill Moyer
• Order “Doing Democracy” or Borrow it free!
• Also from CommonsLibrary.org
• See a further exploration in This Is an Uprising: How
  Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
  by Mark & Paul Engler; See DemocracyUprising.com

• Bill Moyer, MNS co-founder and developer of the widely acclaimed “Movement Action Plan” authored many seminal resources linked at ActivistTraining.org, including:

  • “A Nonviolent Action Manual”
  • “Dedeveloping the U.S. through Nonviolence”
  • “Rome II: A Strategy Game on World Hunger”

Movement Action Plan video: Moyer’s final (48 mins.)

   

Author Bill Moyer (1933-2002) was a globally acclaimed organizer, writer, educator and trainer in nonviolent social movements, active in a dozen countries for forty years. He was SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) staff for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the American Friends Service Committee, Movement For A New Society, Keystone Safe Energy Alliance, and Executive Director of the Social Movement Empowerment Project in San Francisco.
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