Activist Training: Nonviolent Change Resources, Skills, More
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Below: Movement for a New Society alumni
perform “Rainstorm,” a “light-and-lively”
(2-minute ice-breaker game) at their 2009 Reunion.
Beautiful Trouble: Monthly Free Trainings for using BT’s great resources, tools & hidden gems more effectively. Mostly second Mondays.
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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
- *Beautiful Trouble Monthly Free Trainings
- *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
- ActivistsToolbox.com: Youth 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
- Sierra Club Activist Training Series (environment and energy)https://activisttraining.org/
Organizing Guides, Manuals, Kits & Databases
- Beautiful Trouble, Beautiful Solutions & BT Strategy Card Deck:
Tools and an international network of artist-activist trainers to
make grassroots movements more creative and more effective - 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 ) - 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
. - Books 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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- Books 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
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Activist Training: Nonviolent Change Resources, Skills, More
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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:
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. (See his wiki page.)
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