Links to Activists Organizing and Action Kits

Sample Kits:

Action Kit: “National Day of Action for Racial Justice in Schools: Learning While Black or Brown: Racial Profiling and Punishment in U.S. Public Schools.” October 30, 2001
Amnesty International USA, All Faiths program to abolish the death penalty
South Africa's Treatment Access Campaign Action Kit (http://www.tac.org.za)
Let Haiti Live (advocating restoration of international AID funds to Haiti)
UNESCO Youth Campaign on HIV/AIDS
Rugmark (campaign to abolish child labor)
American Postal Workers' Union (www.apwu.org)

The Abortion Access Project: http://www.abortionaccess.org/AAP/publica_resources/organizing_kits.htm
Activists and Medical Students: Working Together to Expand Abortion Services: A guide for Pro-Choice Activists

Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom:

Books Not Bombs Organizing Kit, Young Communist League

Military Out of our Schools Organizing Kit, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors

Campus Living Wage Manual: United for a Fair Economy

National Student Labor Day of Action, Jobs With Justice
Women of Color and Welfare
Hunger Coalition (Philadelphia) Bring Food, Work for Justice

Issues

School Vouchers
http://www.arc.org/erase/vouchers/voucherreport.pdf

Juvenile Justice
“Soundbites and Cellblocks: Analysis of the Juvenile Justice Media Debate and a Case Study of California’s Proposition 21,” http://www.interrupt.org http://www.interrupt.org/pdfs/Sndbts&Cellblks.pdf

Mumia abu Jamal
    International Action Center http://www.iacenter.org/ and local site: http://www.iacenter.org/washdc.htm
    http://www.millions4mumia.org and http://www.mumia2000.org (Look at "Organizing Tools")

Welfare Reform
“Welfare Reform as WE Know It,” Prepared for GROWL by the Applied Research Center (September 2001) http://www.arc.org/welfare/010910monograph_nr.html

HIV/AIDS (U.S.)
ACT-UP Philadelphia http://www.critpath.org/actup/actnow.html
Prisoners with AIDS under Attack: http://www.critpath.org/actup/Project%202.htm
Fighting U.S. Policy on AIDS in Africa: http://www.critpath.org/actup/project3.html

HIV/AIDS (Africa)
Stop Global Aids: Success Stories  http://www.stopglobalaids.org
http://www.stopglobalaids.org/success/index.html

Urban Economy
“Internal Colonialism” 1000 Churches Connected Rainbow/PUSH http://www.rainbowpush.org/pdf/brochure.pdf

Tactics

“We the Peeps” By Teresa Wiltz available at http://www.bsos.umd.edu/aasp/chateauvert/raptivism.htm

Shelterforce Online (National Housing Institute): http://www.nhi.org/online/issues.html

Non-Violent Direct Action Handbook (one of many versions available) http://www.san.beck.org/NAH1-Nonviolence.html#1
Anti-Globalization Demonstrations (Seattle, 1999)
“Where Was the Color in Seattle? Looking for Reasons Why the Great Battle was So White?”  http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story3_1_02.html

“After Seattle: Strategic Thinking About Movement Building”
http://www.findarticles.com/m1132/3_52/63858958/p1/article.jhtml

“Why We Protest: The IMF and World Bank hurt poor countries and undermine democracy,” Robert Weissman http://www.globaltreatmentaccess.org/content/press_releases/index.htm

Media

Low-Income Grassroots Networking and Communications Project (LINC): http://www.lincproject.org/digdiv.htm

The Spin Project
http://www.spinproject.org
Example of a Successful Media Strategy: Jobs with Justice Campaign

FAIR Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Who's On the News? FAIR Study June 2002

The Racism Watch Desk monitors and combats the media's marginalization, misrepresentation and exclusion of people of color--both in the news and in the newsroom. http://www.fair.org/racism-desk/
Example of Media’s Presentation of African American Issues:
http://www.fair.org/extra/0205/reparations.html  (from Extra!, May/June 2002 Reparations and the Media)

Who Owns What
http://www.cjr.org/owners/washpost.asp (From "Power Sources," June 2002 of FAIR's magazine, Extra!)

Miscellaneous Resources

Washington DC service and education program for teenage women: http://www.youngwomensproject.org/

Great links to DC are organizations: http://www.washingtonpeacecenter.org/html/links.html




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Jobs with Justice: April 2001 action against the FTAA
 http://www.jwj.org/Action!/FTAA01/FTAAorgkit.pdf
ACLU’s Gay rights organizing handbook, “Try This At Home!” http://www.aclu.org/issues/gay/trybook.html

Public transportation NAACP-Legal Defense Fund Western Regional Office: discrimination suit against MTA of Los Angeles http://www.ldfla.org/framest.htm

Training Institute for Community Organizing (TICO), Bronx, NY: http://www.tico1.org/
 

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