Written by Andrew Willis Garcés
Edited by Zein Nakhoda Production by Naomi Roswell & Ali Roseberry-Polier Copyedited by Umme Hoque
Advanced feedback from: Jade Brooks (Southerners on New Ground), Christi Clark (The Organizing Center), Umme Hoque (The Sunrise Project), Cicia Lee (Popular Comms), Jennifer Ritter (Peoples’ Action), Aimee-Josiane Twagirumukiza (Midwest Academy)
This workbook is a project of the Organizing Skills Institute of Training for Change.
***Training for Change*** is a training and capacity building organization for left and social justice movement builders centered around powerful pedagogy and training for trainers.
***Organizing Skills Institute*** is a training and resource hub for social justice organizers engaged in base-building, waging campaigns, and contesting for power.
This workbook is part of a long lineage of organizers, strategists, and writers. It exists alongside other campaigning manuals by Heather Booth and Midwest Academy, Wade Rathke, Saul Alinsky, and Gail Cincotta, who shaped generations of community organizers. We’re influenced by the post-Black Freedom Movement generation of largely Black, Latine, and Asian organizers who founded vehicles like the National Welfare Rights Organization and training organizations such as the Center for Third World Organizing, as Rinku Sen outlines in her organizing manual. This workbook is also influenced by the wave of aggressive corporate campaigning waged by the SEIU, UNITE HERE, and other unions that successfully organized hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers in the 1990s and 2000s, and more recent “bargaining for the common good” and “whole worker organizing” campaigns that have won historic victories for public sector and healthcare unions, as Jane MacAlevey recounts in her books. We’re also inspired by new strategic frameworks following Occupy Wall Street, including the Momentum Community’s “hybrid-organizing model.” Many tools owe credit to fields of civil resistance, strategic nonviolence, and direct action organizing, including work by former TFC trainers such as George Lakey, Daniel Hunter, and Nico Amador. We’re also inspired by the many organizations steeped in community organizing traditions who have, in the last decade, successfully incorporated electoral and narrative strategies toward building governing power, including formations like the State Power Caucus.
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