Digital Library of Nonviolent Resistance

14 pages

The DC Action Camp document describes the schedule from January 14th to the 16th for the DC Action Camp #DISRUPTJ20. The DC Counter Inaugural Welcoming Committee has created a series of training to disrupt the inauguration processes on January 20th, 2017. The core set of training provided in DC Action Camp aims to actively gather and resist measures of repression that Trump would enact. The curriculum includes direct action tactics, legal training, and security. Some of these are bystander intervention training, strategic organizing in the face of police violence, and radical cheerleading. These training were organized by time and location.

Handbook

3 pages

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This document clarifies how to make meetings work in a culturally diverse group. The tips in the guide help to cultivate meaningful discussion in groups and maintain clear communication. Also addressed are the cultural norms that may differ when in meetings with colleagues with different regional backgrounds. When there are different nationalities, ethnicities and cultures represented in groups it is important to recognize differences in behavioral values. Some examples in the text are speaking out, making suggestions, or disagreeing with someone in an authority role.

Handbook

8 pages

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A Guide to Conflict Resolution provides a deeper understanding of the nature of conflict, types of conflict, and ways to deal with conflict. At the root of conflict exists varied perspectives, belief systems and values, and personal interests. In an effort to mediate conflict this guide provides specific steps to breakthrough with communication while allowing for the voicing and hearing of complaints. There is also a section with hints for de-escalation.

Handbook

2 pages

A short guidebook on how to speak with the media, with practice questions and answers.

Handbook

6 pages

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A guide on how to successfully build a coalition

Handbook

6 pages

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Handbook for properly and effectively building alliances

handbook

4 pages

1999

Guide on how to get around or through different types of fences in order to complete nonviolent direct action

Handbook

69 pages

2012

Arabic-language training guide for peacebuilding and conflict transformation

Handbook

134 pages

2012

Training guide for peacebuilding and conflict transformation

Handbook

17 pages

Explanation of the role of a marshal in a demonstration

Handbook

53 pages

1990

Plans for a demonstration demanding that President George H.W. Bush take action against the AIDS epidemic

Handbook

14 pages

1975

Documents relating to the anti-nuclear Pacific Life Community's protest against the Trident submarine and missle system by planting a garden at the Bangor Naval Base

Handbook

36 pages

1994

Workshop for police officers regarding mediation and conflict management.

Handbook

145 pages

2007

Detailed guide to building a nonviolent social movement, with exercises to help learn the material.

Handbook

34 pages

2005

Guide to organizing a campus campaign to divest from Israel

Handbook

44 pages

Guide to carrying out citizens weapons inspections, where activists attempt to inspect weapon sites as part of an anti-war and/or anti-nuclear weapons campaign

Handbook

24 pages

2015

Instructions for workshop and roleplay for organizing against police militarization

Handbook

30 pages

2013

Guide for pro-Palestinian activists in the US to effectively communicate their cause

Handbook

32 pages

Strategy guide to campaigning on campus for the End Racial Profiling and Voting Empowerment Acts

Handbook

31 pages

2014

Guide to using arts and culture as a tool for social change

Handbook

20 pages

Spanish-language guide to designing and effectively using slogans and symbols for a social movement

Handbook

19 pages

Guide to campus organizing for divestment from private prisons

Handbook

21 pages

Guide to supporting campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns

Handbook

16 pages

2014

Guidebook to organizing a campaign for divesting from guns on campus

Handbook

19 pages

Guide to campaigning for university diverstment from the coal industry

Handbook

42 pages

Guide to students wishing to organize a campaign on campus to divest from Israel

Handbook

10 pages

Guide to effective nonviolent action

Handbook

40 pages

A training guide for nonviolent activism and community organizing

Handbook

48 pages

A guide to nonviolent labor organizing

Handbook

32 pages

1978

Preparation for nonviolent occupation of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant

Handbook