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Skills for Action provides practical guidance and recommendations to assist you in preparing effectively for demonstrations and actions, and in executing them successfully and safely. The “Skills for Action” (International Edition) handbook is available here as a PDF document.
A Global Week of Action is a week when people across the world take action with a common goal, set of targets, and with shared demands, storytelling and visual identity. This document builds on the learnings from the Insure Our Future Global Week of Action. It is written based on experiences from this context, though there will be lots of relevance for those working in different contexts.
In The Commons Library you can find detailed information on how to plan a Global Week of Action:
The Social Strike Game is a group strategy game that’s fun for everyone. It’s an opportunity to use your imagination to figure out the ways an array of different groups and resources in a city/area can co-ordinate to develop social struggle, build community, deal with crises, respond to significant events, and smash capitalism.
Plan C has developed this fantastic, joyful and strategic game so we can all play it in our groups! Thanks Plan C!
The commons library is not so much a tool itself, but much more than that! A vast collection of theoretical background materials, tools for varying needs and desires and a great source of inspiration. You’ll find anything from materials helping you to build your Theory of Change to learning more about how to create a campaign!
Bewegungsschule has developed learning materials on the function of action in organizing using the example of resistance committees in Sudan: A case study with associated method description and a handout and. So you can use the material directly. For more background information, listen to the interview with Muzna Alhaj.
1-to-1 conversations are part of the toolkit of all organizers. There are different 1-to-1 conversations. This handout from the Bewegungsschule contains a guideline for an approximately 45-minute personal conversation between a more active person (organizer) and a less active person.
The Phase5 collective has published a reader with methods to support groups, initiatives and alliances in the joint development of strategies. Behind this is a feminist claim: As many as possible should be involved in the formulation of longer-term plans, so that all the different perspectives become visible, disputable and decidable.
How do you ensure that a meeting goes well? What do you have to consider and prepare? How do you stay in contact? How do you work well together in the long term? What could a concrete action look like? What experiences do you already have? The IL Berlin has written a brochure that supports you in founding and organizing groups with concrete tips and ideas: