Resources

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• Ally Organizations:
  • March For Our Lives
    Student-centered movement for action on gun safety.
  • Climate Strike
    Youth-centered movement for action on climate change
  • Indivisible
    Grassroots movement employing the same tactics conservatives used to take control of federal and state governments to defeat them.
  • Poor People’s Campaign
    A national call for moral revival uniting people across the country to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation’s distorted morality.
  • Working Families Party
    Progressive political organization fighting for an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected.
  • Black Voters Matter
    Grassroots organization effectively working to increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities.
• Tools for Activists:
  • Primary Elections Calendar
    To keep track of when and where primary elections are happening.
  • FiveThirtyEight
    To get the most reliable forecasts on Presidential and Congressional elections state by state.
  • 5 Calls
    Best way to call your elected representatives. Provides phone numbers and calling scripts on the most important issues of the day.
  • Postcards to Voters
    To help get out the vote in places where there are important, flippable election seats.
• Books:
  • Blueprint for Revolution
    An urgent and accessible handbook for peaceful protesters, activists, and community organizers—anyone trying to defend their rights, hold their government accountable, or change the world.
  • The Methods of Nonviolent Action
    A detailed examination of 198 specific non-violent resistance tactics—illustrated with actual cases.
  • Rules for Revolutionaries
    Two senior advisors on the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign distill the grass roots organizing techniques they employed during the hard-fought Sanders-Clinton Democratic presidential primary.
  • The Art of War
    Written more than 2,500 years ago by Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, much of it centers on how to fight wars without actually having to do battle. Many tips on how to outsmart one’s opponent so that physical combat is not necessary.
• Videos:
  • 1st Followers & Social Movements
    Funny but true 3 minute video on how successful social movements are started.
  • Corruption is Legal in America
    Informative 5 minute video showing how Big Money has corrupted our political system to its core, and what we can do to fix it.
  • Wealth Inequality in America
    Great visuals in 6 minute video showing just how just how much more the wealthiest 1% of Americans have compared to the other 99%.
• Articles:
  • Most Flippable Senate Seats in 2020
    7 Republican and 3 Democratic seats that are flippable.
  • The power of Re-framing Narratives
    Cognitive scientist George Lakoff on how to use language to change the way the media and the general population talk about what’s going on.