This is a space where you can find external resources and collectives, which we recommend.
ACTIVISM DATABASES
| LINK | DESCRIPTION |
| 350.org | A cutting edge collection of tools to help you share knowledge, build relationships and lead effective workshops. If you are wondering how you will host your next meeting, or what process you should facilitate within your team this library is for you. |
| The Commons Library | Includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organizing, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more. You can browse by topics, formats and collections and choose to listen, watch or read. |
| Beautiful Trouble | A book, web toolbox and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective. It is an extraordinary collection of stories, insights and principles to inspire your next creative action. |
| The Activist Handbook | Consists of 450+ guides and 4.7K external resources to help you make more impact with your next campaign. Learn how to become an activist, plan a political campaign strategy, and start a grassroots movement – all while not burning out. |
| EJAtlas – Global Atlas of Environmental Justice | The EJAtlas is a valuable resource for teaching, networking, and advocacy. It serves strategists, activists, scholars, and teachers, as well as citizens interested in often overlooked conflicts. The map is useful for social and environmental curricula, and researchers, journalists, and bloggers can explore cases and patterns. Activists can study past campaigns to strategize, while groups working on similar issues can connect with potential allies. |
| The Movement Learning Catalyst | The Movement Learning Catalyst platform is an action-learning platform, which aims to nurture the interconnected movements, realities and responsive strategies needed to challenge systems of oppression we face today. |
| Civil Disobedience Toolkit: A guide to civil disobedience by Amnesty International | This toolkit is aimed at organizations who are contemplating the use of civil disobedience. It sets out key principles when engaging in civil disobedience and the steps to use civil disobedience effectively, including planning, risk assessment, decision-making, implementation and evaluation. It also provides guidance on when and how to engage in acts of civil disobedience in a way that maintains the organization’s duty of care to those acting on its calls for civil disobedience and mitigates reputational, financial, legal and other risks. |
| Seeds for Change | is a collective that develops free resources to help campaigns, cooperatives, and community projects organise more effectively. Their practical guides are informed by years of experience supporting grassroots groups and are designed to be copied, adapted, translated, and shared. You can find various resources on direct action, ranging from the basics to the impact of convictions. |
ACTIVIST WELLBEING
| LINK | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Activist Trauma Support | Formed in 2004 in the UK, due to a recognition of the potential for people involved in political activism to have distressing or traumatic experiences. The group and the site is not active anymore but the archive is valuable and it can be used by people experiencing and/or witnessing any degree of post-traumatic stress and burnout in an activist context, or anyone who may be concerned about someone else and seeking ways to understand and support them. |
| Climate & Mind | Explore how climate change impacts our thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Lots of resources on psychology, mental health and climate communication at one place. |
DIGITAL SECURITY
| LINK | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Totem | An online platform that helps journalists and activists use digital security and privacy tools and tactics more effectively in their work. They offer free MOOC courses, which can help you to be on track with the digital world. |
| Security in a Box | A project of Front Line Defenders and it’s a place where you can get super practical knowledge on how to navigate safely in the digital world. |
| Digital Defenders | Offer support to human rights defenders under digital threat, and work to strengthen local rapid response networks. They emphasize their focus on actors that collect, interpret, and make data available for the broader public. |
| Surveillance Self Defense | A toolkit to provide you with the basics in protecting yourself online. Compiled by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, some aspects of this guide will be useful to people with very little technical knowledge, while others are aimed at an audience with considerable technical expertise and privacy/security trainers. |
| Digital Self Defence collective | is a Britain-based collective of technical professionals working with computer systems in radical political spaces. They create practical, accessible, and up-to-date resources on digital rights, security, and tools. |
FACILITATION
| LINK | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Navigate | A team of experienced facilitators, mediators and trainers based in the UK. They are working towards social and environmental justice topics. |
| Seeds for change | Support groups campaigning for social and environmental justice to thrive and win. They offer training, meeting facilitation and online resources. Jump on the site to discover the amazing guides they developed. If you want to get campaign skills, do an action, organize your group or a meeting – here is your place to get inspiration and knowledgе. |
| Rhizome | Brings together the skills and experience of a co-operative, the Grassroots Trainers’ Network of professional facilitators, trainers, community builders, and mediators for your benefit. Have a look at their page as well to discover resources on working with groups, facilitation, working with conflict, consensus decision making & communication. |
| Power cube | A resource for understanding power relations in efforts to bring about social change. Powercube.net contains practical and conceptual materials to help us think about how to respond to power relations within organizations and in wider social and political spaces. |
| Knowledge roundup: Conflict is inevitable | This quick knowledge roundup is a compilation of knowledge intended for grassroots activists/advocates, those who provide grassroots support, and anyone else involved in a collective or organizational structure with an interest in moving away from traditional carceral and punishment cultures of handling conflict. The thoughts and resources included in this guide were shared by individuals who participated in a peer-sharing event on conflict, co-organized by Alternative Justice, Gastivists Collective, RadHR and the Global Grassroots Support Network. |
INTERSECTIONALITY
| LINK | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Dismantling Racism | A web-based workbook where you can get knowledge on racism and white supremacy culture. Resources analyst & actions tools – all at one place. |
| Power & Privilege Introductory Guide | It’s a handbook for political organizers written by Members of the UK-based New Economy Organisers Network (NEON). If you are curious to explore those topics – just read it! |
| Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerement | It’s brilliant 14 pages work and you will get what is oppression and how the machine is functioning from the very first read! |
ORGANISING TRAININGS
| LINK | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Training For Change | A training and capacity building organization for activists and organizers. If you need inspiration and ideas about group training this is your place – tons of good games and energizers, team building and diversity exercises, training and (online) facilitation tools, tools on organizing, strategies and action. There is content in Spanish as well. |
| The Ruckus Society | A multi-racial network of trainers dedicated to providing the necessary tools, preparation, and support to build direct action capacity for ecological justice and social change movements. They have distilled their campaigning and action planning knowledge into short manuals that will help guide your planning process. |
| CANVAS | Center for Applied NonViolent Actions and Strategies was founded in 2005 by Slobodan Djinovic and Srdja Popovic to advocate for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy. They offer workshops, books, videos, specialized courses and publications for free download. |
| Momentum Community | A training institute and community of movements organizers. Videos, guides and books are there to guide you through the Momentum model. |
| Social Movement Technologies | offers online training courses, discussion groups, and communities of practice focused on organizing strategies, tactics and digital tools for people-powered movements. It highlights language access, live and on-demand trainings, peer learning, and case histories of campaign support. |