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
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
- INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence: "a national campaign to mobilize
public support to halt the U.S. government from waging war against Arab and
Muslim peoples throughout the world. The goal of our campaign is to stop
the war on women of color and our communities within and outside the U.S.'
borders. War impacts women disproportionately, and acts of war only fan the
flames of terrorism. By stopping this war, we can also further the self-determination
goals of Arab women's organizations in Afghanistan and other countries."
- http://www.incite-national.org/issues/campaign.html
Hunger Coalition (Philadelphia) Bring Food, Work for Justice
Issues
School Vouchers
Juvenile Justice
Mumia abu Jamal
Welfare Reform
HIV/AIDS (U.S.)
HIV/AIDS (Africa)
Urban Economy
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:
Who Owns What
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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