The Ruckus Society

Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) Resources: Internet

Our intention with this document was to collect and share on-line resources for NVDA. The list is by no means complete. The experience and perspective reflected in these web sites is often from a primarily white, straight, middle-class orientation. However, strategic and tactical direct action information for people of color, women, trans/queer/bi/gay/lesbians, working class and others can be extrapolated and applied in some cases. The bottom line: some resources may be less relevant to your constituency and require reframing. For that, we apologize. Please send us links that we should add! Also, please note that there is significant overlap between the categories. Finally, several links require free, downloadable software called Adobe Acrobat Reader: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

SF BAY AREA CONTACTS

http://www.ActAgainstWar.org Direct Action To Stop The War

http://www.actagainstwar.org/article.php?list=type&type=17

http://www.bapd.org/keys.html & http://www.bapd.org/dir.html S.F. Bay Area Progressive Directory

http://www.peacepledge.org/resist for groups in your area who are organizing civil disobedience

CALENDAR OF EVENTS: DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL

http://www.protest.net/

TIMELINE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE HISTORY

www.salsa.net/peace/timeline/thisday.html (16 pages) or one copy of the same timeline in Excel spreadsheet format www.salsa.net/peace/timeline/thisdayinhistory.xls (32 pages)

NONVIOLENCE

http://ruckus.org/man/index.html This site has training manuals for action planning, media, climbing, scouting, video taping, and hanging from a billboard. The orientation is small Greenpeace-style actions.

http://www.san.beck.org/NAH1-Nonviolence.html Sam Beck’s NVDA Resources

http://www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/CDindex.html Act Up! New York’s C.D. Manual

http://www.members.tripod.com/nviusa/biblio.htm Nonviolence International

www.rantcollective.org Hit "Resources" Root Activist Network of Trainers (RANT) http://www.rantcollective.org/article.php?list=types&type=17

http://www.vernalproject.org/RPapers.shtml Papers on Nonviolent Action and Cooperative Decision-Making: This website has a wealth of information, including very detailed agendas. Most of the material was developed in the 1980’s, and needs updating in response to current situations.

http://www.transnational.org/links/nonviolence.html Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research

http://www.nowar.no/peaceacademy/causesofwar9.html Peace Academy

http://www.aeinstein.org/pubs_index.html Albert Einstein Institution (Gene Sharp)

http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/peace.html publications on peace, war & nonviolence

AFFINITY GROUPS

http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/act_ags.html Stop the FTAA’s Affinity Group Info and Resources

http://www.freedomrising.org/affinity_groups/index.html Freedom Rising's Affinity Group Resources

http://www.directdemocracynow.org/ags.html Direct Democracy Now!

http://www.radio4all.org/anarchy/organize.html Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, & Ideas

http://www.d2kla.org/dan_affinty.html Rise Up/Direct Action Network LA

http://www.anarco-nyc.net/collective.html NYC anarchists

CONSENSUS DECISION MAKING for NVDA

http://www.consensus.net/ Conflict and Consensus: a handbook on Formal Consensus Decision-making by C.T. Bulter and Amy Rothstein http://consensus.net/ocaccontents.html

http://www.ic.org/pnp/ocac/ Information on consensus.

http://www.managingwholes.com/consensus.htm articles on consensus building.

MEDIA FOR NVDA

http://www.ruckus.org/man/media_manual.html The Ruckus Society’s Media Manual

http://www.spinproject.org/resources/mainframe.php3 The Spin Project’s Resources

http://www.videonetwork.org/media.html or http://www2.phreak.co.uk/tlio/pubs/agm2.html

An activist guide to exploiting the Media by George Monbiot

http://www.ran.org/action/toolbox/ Rainforest Action Network’s toolbox

http://www.videoactivism.org/med_strad.html Media Strategies for Activists

http://www.fair.org/activism/activismkit.html FAIR’s Media Activism Kit

http://www.newstips.org/writerhelp.htm Writing Press Releases

http://electronicintifada.net/foractivists/introduction.shtml Electronic Intifada

http://www.ssc.org/trainings/ftaamedia.pdf Sierra Student Coalition’s FTAA Media Manual

http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/act_media.html Stop the FTAA Activist Resources Media Tools

How to Tell and Sell Your Story: A Guide to Media for Community Groups and other Nonprofits

We Interrupt This Program…A Citizen’s Guide To Using the Media for Social Change

by Robbie Gordon, Citizens Involvement Training Program in Amherst, MA.

ORGANIZING/Strategic Campaigning

http://www.ibiblio.org/netchange/cco/ Organizing Guide for Peace and Justice Groups

http://publicachievement.org/5_2_3_pwrmap.html http://publicachievement.org/5_2_tools.html

http://www.ulaverne.edu/lead/pdf/r10.pdf Understanding Who Holds Power

http://www.ivaltd.com/Pmap.doc Organizational Power Mapping

http://www.trainingforchange.org/strategy/index.html Training for Change/George Lakey

http://www.ngltf.org/library/campus.htm Gay & Lesbian Task Force Campus Organizing Manual

http://www.hud.gov/community/orcomm.html Industrial Areas Foundation

http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/ Lots of resources for building community.

http://www.grassroots-advocacy.com/gate.html Grassroots Advocacy Training Exchange

http://www.clcr.org/DvlModOrg.pdf The Development Model of Organizing

http://www.highlandercenter.org/resources.asp Highlander Research & Education Center

http://www.actionpa.org/ Activists' Center for Training In Organizing and Networking

http://www.actionpa.org/activism/ Activism Training Materials and Resources

http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/ Community Toolbox

http://www.readwriteact.org/activism.html SCALE’s Advocacy and Activism site

http://www.midwestacademy.com/ Midwest Academy

http://www.ctwo.org/ Center for Third World Organizing: 510-533-7583.

www.noacentral.org National Organizer’s Alliance, 202-543-6603

http://www.thedartcenter.org Direct Action and Research Training Center, Inc.

http://www.kwru.org/educat/orgmod2.html Kensington Welfare Rights Union’s Willie Baptist

http://www.freedomrising.org/direct_democracy/dd_cindy2.html Article on strategy

http://causenet.commoncause.org/afr/issues/basics/?style=comm Common Cause on lobbying

Organizing for Social Change by Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, and Steve Max. $18-20.

Midwest Academy-style strategy and organizing skills. A great resource. The organizer’s bible.

Enough Is Enough: The Hellraiser’s Guide to Community Activism by Diane Maceachern.

Step-by-step instructions on how individuals can launch an effective citizens’ campaign at the grassroots level.
Organize!, How People Get Power, and Organizing: A Guide For Grassroots Leaders, both by Si Kahn (McGraw Hill) Fantastic step-by-step organizing lessons.

Campus Organizing Guide For Peace and Justice Groups: Center for Campus Organizing

http://www.empowermentresources.com/books/ Look under Political Empowerment, Organizing

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/ACTIVIST/actbooks.htm Organizing Books

Scouting for NVDA

http://www.ruckus.org/man/index.html The Ruckus Society’s contribution to the art of scouting.

http://www.pressurepoint.org/pp_direct_action_tools.html Pressure Point

CREATIVE ACTION: Political Theatre, ART & PUPPETS

http://www.spiralq.org/ Spiral Q Puppet Theater

http://www.gis.net/~puppetco/index.html The Puppeteers' Cooperative Home Page

http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/building/index.html Puppet Building and Building Materials

http://www.zeitgeist.net/wfca/handbook.html Wise Fool Basics Puppet Handbook

http://www.progressiveaustin.org/chants.htm Progressive Austin’s chants and slogans

http://www.artandrevolution.org/ Art and Revolution

The Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy, from United for a Fair Economy

Communications (Comms) & TECH for NVDA

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/longwire/activist_electronics_0303.html Excellent.

http://www.prometheusradio.org/ Prometheus Radio Project

http://www.organizenow.net/ Organizers’ Collaborative

Video and Still photography for NVDA

http://www.videoactivism.org/cameratips.html Camera Tips

http://www.videoactivism.org/resource.html The Video Activist Network

Blockades and Occupations

http://www.a16.org/feature.cfm?ID=11 Affidavit describing construction of lock boxes.

http://www.warresisters.org/nva0100-3.htm Description of human blockades at WTO

http://www.geneticsaction.org.uk/delia.pdf Delia Smith’s Basic Blockading

http://headwaters-ef.enviroweb.org/actions/tactics/blockades.html Headwaters Forest EF! blockades

TACTICS

http://headwaters-ef.enviroweb.org/actions/tactics/rallies.html Headwaters Forest Earth First!

http://headwaters-ef.enviroweb.org/actions/tactics/backwoods.html Headwaters Forest Earth First!

http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/efj/primer/DA.html Direct Action Primer

http://www.infoshop.org/directaction.html Direct Action Guide

http://www.radio4all.org/anarchy/rant3.html Direct Action by Nemesis

www.salsa.net/peace/genesharp.html (6 pgs) Gene Sharp's list of 198 nonviolent methods (tactics) www.salsa.net/peace/sharp.pdf 3 page Adobe Acrobat Gene Sharp's list of 198 nonviolent methods
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/12/24/6308041 Protest Tools

http://www.geocities.com/zapatistablock/resources.htm Zapatista Block

http://www.creativeresistance.ca/toolkit/toolkit-non-violent-action.htm Creative Resistance

http://www.riseup.net/n30/actionideas.html

http://www.earthfuture.com/stopthewar/

Police Tactics

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/090700-01.htm

http://www.pwpl.com/security/

http://www.ci.eugene.or.us/PoliceComm/CrowdControl.htm City of Eugene, OR crowd control

http://www.jus.state.nc.us/NCJA/crowdmgm.pdf Crowd Management Handbook North Carolina

http://www.tcleose.state.tx.us/GuideInst/PDF/1000/31cro.pdf Crowd Management Texas

http://lois.vic.uh.edu/Reserve/Williamson/Crowd%20Management.htm

http://other.corneliuspd.org/Departments/BLET/BLET7_files/frame.htm

http://www.federallaboratories.com/cm/aerosols.asp

http://www.ipmba.org/newsletter-0211-lapd.htm International Police Mountain Bike Association

http://www.ipmba.org/newsletter-0211-crowds.htm Mountain Bike Crowd Control

http://mai.flora.org/forum/27357 The health impact of crowd-control agents

http://www.lawandordermag.com/ Law and Order Magazine

http://www.tpub.com/maa/97.htm

http://neds.nebt.daps.mil/Directives/5585/nine.pdf

http://www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/mlaw1.html Martial Law – Crowd Control

https://www.advancement.cnet.navy.mil/products/web-pdf/tramans/bookchunks/14137_ch9.pdf

Legal for NVDA

http://www.lawcollective.org/handbooks/activist/html/intro.html The Just Cause Law Collective

http://www.publiceye.org/eyes/comsense.html

Common Sense Security by Sheila O'Donnell

http://publiceye.com "If an Agent Knocks: Federal Investigators and Your Rights," Center for Constitutional Rights

http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/Feds/If_an_Agent_Knocks.htm

http://www.shacusa.net/resources_security.htm.

http://www.nlg.org/resources/resources.htm National Lawyers Guild

http://www.videoactivism.org/onlook.html SFPD’s Rights on Onlookers

http://www.videoactivism.org/legal.html Legal resources

http://www.d2kla.org/dan_legal.html D2K Los Angeles legal

http://www.midnightspecial.net/Materials.htm Midnight Special Law Collective

http://www.legalsolidarity.org/ Legal Solidarity

http://www.justiceandsolidarity.org/ Justice and Solidarity

http://www.lowensteinlaw.com/resources.html Lowenstein Law

http://www.davidwool.com/crimfaq.html David Wool and Associates

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/ethics/nuremberg/nurembergprinciples.html Citizens have an obligation in accordance with the Nuremberg Principles not to cooperate with the illegal actions of our government. \

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/ethics/nuremberg/nurembergprinciples.html The Nuremberg Principles

http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-index.htm

http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/sheriff/jailinfo.htm SF Sheriff's Office

http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/police/ SFPD http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/police/bureaus/mnusub20.htm station map

Her Wits About Her: Self Defense Success Stories by Women by Caignon, Denise and Gail Groves. Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. by Churchill, Ward and Jim Vander Wall. Boston: South End Press, 1988.

The Age of Surveillance. Donner, Frank J. New York: Random House, 1981.

Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement. Gelbspan, Ross. Boston: South End Press, 1991.

War at Home: Covert Action Against US Activists and What We can Do About It. Glick, Brian.

Grounding and Centering (Self-purification)

http://www.starhawk.org/activism/trainer-resources/groundcenter.html

MEDICAL, FIRST AID and STREET SAFETY for NVDA

http://www.bostoncoop.net/balm/ Boston Area Liberation Medic (BALM) Squad

http://www.starhawk.org/activism/trainer-resources/teargas.html

http://www.starhawk.org/activism/trainer-resources/traumaovervw.html

http://www.d2kla.org/dan_bring.html

http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/

http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/act_medical.html

http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/act_teargas.html

http://zena.secureforum.com/ontheground/action-medical/northeast/ NE Action Medics Association

http://www.blackcrosscollective.org/ First Aid for Radicals and Activists: “Fight the power, do no harm.” Downloadable handbooks on street medic preparation, good info on chemical weapons.

http://www.devo.com/sarin/shieldbook.pdf

Handbook on shields and self-defense.

http://free.freespeech.org/yabasta/protection.html Information on shields and other forms of barrier protections.

http://www.radio4all.org/aia/

Anarchism In Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas. Complied and Edited by Shawn Ewald

This is a ‘book’ of internet links to anarchist organizing methods, direct action, protest, and long term projects.

ANTI-OPPRESSION RESOURCES

www.tao.ca/~colours http://www.tao.ca/~colours/org.html Colors of Resistance

http://www.toolsforchange.org/ http://toolsforchange.org/resources/

http://www.illegalvoices.org/apoc/heat/index.html Anarchist People of Color Tools

http://racetraitor.org/ Race Traitor

http://www.paulkivel.com/Workshops.htm Paul Kivel’s Uprooting Racism Workshops

http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/act_opres.html Stop FTAA’s anti-oppression resources

http://www.positive.org/Resources/internet.html Positive???

http://www.organizedresistance.org/antioppression.html National Conference on Organized Resistance.

NVDA TRAINING RESOURCES

http://www.trainingforchange.org/tools/index.html Training for Change/ George Lakey

http://www.deltanetwork.org/skills/orglinks.htm Delta Enterprise Network

http://www.starhawk.org/activism/trainer-resources/trainer-resources.html Tons of great stuff.

http://www.salsa.net/peace/teach/teach2.html NVDA History and 198 Tactics exercise

http://www.salsa.net/peace/teach/teachers.html Peace Tools for Teachers

http://www.forusa.org/Programs/NVTraining/NVTrainers.html Database of NVDA Trainers

http://www.forusa.org/Programs/NVTraining/NV.html

http://www.managingwholes.com/conflict1.htm Different.

http://www.trainingforchange.org/tools.html This training organization, led by George Lakey, has descriptions of exercises to be used during trainings.

GRAPHICS: free and cheap…

http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/toolbox.php US Labor Against the War

http://www.warresisters.org/demo_flyers.htm

http://www.progressiveaustin.org/graphics.htm http://www.progressiveaustin.org/flags.htm

http://www.designaction.org/morelinks.html

http://whitehouse.org/initiatives/posters/index.asp

http://www.fcnl.org/iraq_bumstker_info.php Friends (Quaker) Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) offers a free bumper sticker that says "War Is Not the Answer." FREE.

http://www.anotherposterforpeace.com. Free, downloadable poster with a graphic of a bomb in a shopping bag with a US flag on the side that says, "Don't Buy It: War Is Not the Answer." FREE.

http://www.northlandposter.com/cgi-bin/Web_store/web_store.cgi?mt=&page=justicepeace Northland Poster Collective's free poster has the word "War" with a "no" slash through it and says above and below: "Unity Against Racism, Justice through Peace". FREE.

http://www.peacecouncil.net/images/Dove-Grief.pdf The Syracuse Peace Council offers a free poster to download, print, and display. It says "Revenge Will Not Heal Our Grief" with a graphic of a peace dove. FREE.

http://www.progressivecatalog.com or http://www.donnellycolt.com Donnelly-Colt (run by two activists associated with War Resisters League) offers a wide variety of t-shirts, bumperstickers, buttons, and posters -- union-made where possible.

http://www.syrculturalworkers.org/index2.html Syracuse Cultural Workers offers a wide variety of t-shirts, bumperstickers, and buttons.

http://www.northernsun.com Northern Sun has a wide variety of t-shirts, bumperstickers, buttons, etc.

http://www.progressiveportal.org/resources Progressive Portal

http://starhawk.org/activism/activism-resources.html On Starhawk’s web page you'll find resources for nonviolent direct action and anti-oppression trainers/preparers and magical activism workshop facilitators. You'll find sample agendas, exercises, wall charts, handouts, and notes on how trainings went.

MEGAPHONES AND SOUND SYSTEMS

http://www.federalsignal-indust.com/CutSheets/A15EL.pdf

http://www.federalsignal-indust.com/InstSheets/A15EL.PDF

http://domino.fedsig.com/web/FedSig/FedSigDocCent.nsf/632915a8d4e70571862568280077dd29/a27ce140d3e946b1862565c1005c48c5/$FILE/9102.pdf

http://www.fedsig.com/police/On-line_Catalog/Essential_Accessories/Portable_Loud_Speakers/A15_Megaphone/a15_megaphone.html

http://www.officeworld.com/Worlds-Biggest-Selection/bullhorn?src=gogl

http://www.emprep.com/megaphone.html

http://www.gadgetbabe.com/showpage.asp?itemid=15584&source=gogl

http://www.audiosoundselectronics.com/products/megaphones.htm

http://www.audiosoundselectronics.com/specpages/specs_er-66ws.htm

http://www.audiosoundselectronics.com/specpages/specs_er-332.htm

http://www.audiosoundselectronics.com/specpages/specs_er-57s.htm