When people come together to organize, we have the power to change our lives and the world around us.

Here are some basic primers from some of our friends that cover topics such as getting your group started, developing campaign strategy, building effective organizations, doing press work, planning direct actions, and more.

organizing on campus and in your community

• "The Art of Corporate Campaigns"
• United Students Against Sweatshops
  • "Organizing tips for sweatfree campaigns"
• Student Labor Action Project
• Student Environmental Action Coalition
• United Students for Fair Trade
• Student Trade Justice Campaign
• Ruckus Society
• Rainforest Action Network
• INCITE: women of color against violence
• Campus organizing guide
• Facilitation techniques
• National Lawyers Guild (offers excellent "know your rights" materials in several languages.)

getting your message out: working with (and being) the media

• SPIN Project
• SmartMeme
• How to write a press release
• Media guide - track down contact information for local media outlets

developing campaign strategy

• The strategy chart - developed by the Midwest Academy
• School of Unity & Liberation
  

anti-oppression/bigger picture

• Catalyst Project
• Colours of Resistance
• School of Americas Watch
• History is a Weapon
• Left Turn

• 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