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, planning actions and rallies, doing press work, and more.

General:

• Consult pages 37-78 of the 2010 SFA Strategy Retreat resources booklet for a plethora of organizing how-to's covering everything from
  forming a local Fair Food group to giving a campaign presentation to working with the media.

• "The Art of Corporate Campaigns"
• "Activist's Handbook" from protest.net
• Organizing guides from the Student Environmental Action Coalition
• Tools and resources from the Ruckus Society
• "Activism 101" from Axis of Justice

• Organizing Toolbox from Virginia Organizing
• New Organizing Institute Toolbox featuring movement-building trainings on telling your story, building a structure, strategizing and creating measurable action 
• The Online Conference on Community Organizing
• Community Organizing on wikipedia

• Resources for organizing from INCITE: women of color against violence
• Community Organizing section on Organizing Upgrade
• School of Unity & Liberation
• People of Color Organize!

• The strategy chart - developed by the Midwest Academy
• Movement Strategy Center
• "Know your rights" info from the National Lawyers Guild
• Meeting facilitation techniques

Getting your message out: working with the (and creating your own) media:

• SPIN Project
• SmartMeme
• How to write a press release
• How to pitch news outlets to cover your action (Beyond the Choir)
• Media guide - track down contact information for local media outlets

Fundraising:

Whether it's printing and copying flyers, holding a regional SFA gathering, or bringing a group to a national CIW mobilization, raising funds is often a necessary component of organizing. Check out these guides for help and ideas:

• SFA fundraising & honorarium guide
• Invite CIW/SFA to speak at your school and ask for an honorarium:
  • "How to organize college honoraria"
  • Guidebook to organizing a progressive event
  • Tips on hosting a speaker
• USAS Fundraising guide
• USSF fundraising guide
• Amnesty Int'l fundraising guide
• "How to hold a house party fundraiser"
• Apply for a grant from Campus Progress

Anti-oppression/bigger picture:

• People's Grocery: Anti-Oppression Training
• Catalyst Project
• School of Americas Watch
• History is a Weapon
• Left Turn

• "Organizing with Love: Lessons from the NY Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign"

• 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..."

• "From Resistance to Revolution" (History is a Weapon)