Rad Manual
Pick/Choose Topics:
Kamala
- Organizations
- Good/Bad practices
- Dos/Donts/Tips/Tricks
- How radicals are used/brainwashed
- Cooperatives
Mel
- International/Solidarity
- Art/Photographs/Spoken Word/Symbols
- Vox Pop/Word in the Herd
- women's perspective
- Glossary.
Ricky
- Theory: Direct action, incorporation, space, etc...
- Dos/donts/tips/tricks
Everywhere/everyone
- links
- International
- Art
- Women's perspectives
Deadline: JULY 31 2009 Have everything compiled.
Mel's
- Zine Library
- Art
Claire Fontaine- Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike http://zinelibrary.info/ready-made-artist-and-human-strike
- International/Solidarity
- Art/Photographs/Spoken Word/Symbols
- Vox Pop/Word in the Herd
- women's perspective
- Glossary.
Jargon Glossary (definition and use)
- Direct Action: Acting directly to represent our interest ourselves. Refers to any action that cuts out the middle man and solves problems directly, eithout appealing to elected reps, corporate interests, and other powers.
- Consensus: A process which requires an environment in which all contributions are valued and participation is encouraged.
- Affinity Group: An affinity group is a small group of 5 to 20 people who work together autonomously on direct actions or other projects. You can form an affinity group with your friends, people from your community, workplace,or organization. Affinity groups challenge top-down decision-making and organizing, and empower those involved to take creative direct action.
- Collectives:A collective is a permanent organizational grouping that exists to accomplish a range of tasks or achieve a goal or maintain a permanent project.
- Federation: Federations are essentially unions of autonomous organizations and/or affinity groups. Federations are formal organizations with constitutions, bylaws, and specific membership guidelines.
Participation : Direct Democracy : Community : Social action : Marginalized : Power : Process : Sustainable : Grassroots : Organizing : Change : Capacity building : Solidarity : Structure : System(ic) : Oppression : Anti-oppression : advocacy : Poor : Intervention : Asset-based : Mobilization : Neo-liberal agenda: LGBTQ : Political : Ecological : Non-profit organizations : Incorporation : Social Economy : Cooperative :
Community org. and CED practice
Self-mobilization : spread if government and NGOs provide an enabling framework of support. Such self-initiated mobilization may or may not challenge existing distributions of wealth and power. Pretty’s typology of participation (1995) p.46
Space : p.47
Participation : p.48, p.50 p.62. Community org. and CED practice
Organizing : p.53, p. 54, p.58 - SIMs : single issue mobilisation - approaches; community development and social action p.55, 56
Ten tools for organizing power (p.59, p.64)