Rad Manual

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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

http://zinelibrary.info/

  • 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
  • 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. (taken from Shawn Ewald's Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas.)
    • Consensus: A process which requires an environment in which all contributions are valued and participation is encouraged.(taken from Shawn Ewald's Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas.)
    • 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.(taken from Shawn Ewald's Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas.)
    • 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.(taken from Shawn Ewald's Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas.)
    • Participation :
    • Direct Democracy : Literal direct democracy is a bottom up method of decision making that uses voting as the means to arrive at decisions. In direct democracy, anyone can call a vote on an issue and anyone can technically call an assembly, however, a group or council can draft and approve guidelines for calling votes and calling assemblies.(taken from Shawn Ewald's Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas.)

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)
  • Activism and social change (shragge)
  • Theory p. 60-61
  • Organizing models : p. 68-69-70
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