When people come together to organize, we have the power to change our lives and the world around us. Here are some basic primers for getting started, developing campaign strategy, building effective organizations, doing press work, planning direct actions, and more.

• United Students Against Sweatshops offers these resources for organizing and direct action.
  
  
• Student Labor Action Project offers these tools and resources.
  
  
• Rainforest Action Network has a toolbox for improving your campaign, media and direct action skills.

• Student Environmental Action Coalition has loads of useful organizing resources and guides on this page.
  
  
• Ruckus Society has some helpful training resources for direct action planning and media work.
  

• School of Unity & Liberation has developed different manuals to support youth and community organizations around the country in running their own political education programs.

• Student Trade Justice Campaign provides this guide, which not only incudes organizing tips but also an intro to some of the global economic factors behind migration.

• Campus organizing guide for peace and justice groups.

• INCITE provides this helpful organizing kit.
  
  
• The Strategy chart is a great tool for campaign planning developed by the Midwest Academy.
  
  
• SPIN Project offers a range of free online tools to expand your communications capacity.
  
  
• PressReleaseWriting.com offers tips and formatting suggestions for all your press release needs.
  
  
• Media guide is a great way to track down contact information for local media outlets.
  
  
• Colours of Resistance organizing tools for challenging oppression.

• Compendium of anti-oppression resources from School of Americas Watch.
  

• Facilitation techniques for effective and participatory group meetings
  
  
• National Lawyers Guild offers excellent "know your rights" materials in several languages.
  

• Leadership development and organizing - "... Leadership development can play important roles in moving forward with our commitment to equality in organizations, movements and society."

• The CIW and the IWW - "The most important, practical sense in which the CIW shares an organizing culture with the IWW is in the emphasis on consciousness as the basis of action."