Tactics

These are just a few of the tactics from our playbook. We have dozens more at our disposal.

• Branding the Revolution. This is the logo we created for The Revolution.

  

  The raised fist has been used worldwide since 1917 as a powerful symbol for workers rights, anti-fascists, women’s rights, and most notably in America for the Black Power movement. But unlike the typical male adult-looking fist, our logo has been designed specifically so that anyone of any race, gender, or age can see the fist as looking like their own.

  We honor the struggles of those who came before us, and hope this logo will galvanize all who feel similar moral outrage and frustration now to stand up, speak up, and fight back for the futures our children and grandchildren deserve.

• Sticker Bombing. Put logo stickers everywhere as a guerilla messaging tactic. Anyone can put them on lockers, notebooks, laptop computers, etc as a form of personal expression. They could also put them in public places like stop signs, walls, windows, elevator/escalators, bathroom stalls as a small but significant act of civil disobedience that pales in comparison to what our opponents have done. Like graffiti gone viral, seeing the same symbol repeatedly appearing in unexpected places will put fear in the hearts of our opponents, and will be a strong show of unity among all who are standing up, speaking up, and fighting back.
  • To get individual stickers, click here.
  • To get rolls of stickers, click here to go to a print service, and here to download the graphic for the sticker to your computer, then upload that graphic to the print service.
• Outreach to students, teachers, schools. Particularly those in groups that are already working on climate change, gun safety and equal rights for black and brown-skinned children/youth. Build partnerships, network, support each other, share knowledge and resources.
• Social Media. We will effectively use social media to reframe the narratives told both in the mainstream media and in the general public. If you have any doubts about the power of social media to reframe narratives and influence elections, the results of the 2016 and 2018 elections should be proof enough.
• Student Take a Knee movement. Students across the country start taking a knee during the daily flag salute. First to show solidarity with Black Lives Matters and NFL players. Second, to show solidarity with the Revolution movement. To say no to fake patriotism, fake presidents, and fake government. Fake justice and fake freedom.
• Slow Downs. Rather than get arrested for sitting in the road and obstructing traffic, why not do a mass slow down where you get everyone in critical nerve centers—Washington DC, state capitals—to walk/drive in slow motion? Not so slow as to break any laws, but slow enough to seriously jam up the system. Our message: “Now you know how WE feel about YOUR obstruction.”

• Form Revolution groups. Start creating web pages for your own groups, Use your own GoFundMe pages to fundraise, and start networking with others. Examples: Revolution Seattle, Revolution Mountlake Terrace High School. Follow the Indivisible Guide model of forming and finding groups in your area that are good match for you. Use the Revolution USA or Revolution Seattle websites as templates to set up your own group and customize it to meet your community’s needs.

  Groups are encouraged to download the raised fist logo here, and creatively customize it as they wish to make their own group logo.