The original Rainbow Coalition (not Jesse Jackson’s, which came twenty years later): a multiracial coalition in Chicago initiated by the Black Panther Party, which focused on a mix of advocating economic system change, resisting gentrification and police brutality, and providing social services directly (free clinics, free breakfast for children, etc)

Sixth Declaration of the Zapatistas

Major political statement from the Zapatistas, who’ve been doing this sort of thing in rural Mexico for more than 20 years (link to an English translation, which links to the Spanish original)
Essay comparing the Rojava Revolution with the Indigenous Autonomy of the Zapatistas
Zapatista Escuelita Textbooks

Fred Hampton of the Chicago Black Panthers

Fred Hampton: A lot of the rhetoric is pretty confrontational, but it’s a vivid explanation of direct action and people’s power from the chair of the Chicago Black Panthers.

Horizontalidad: Where Everyone Leads (Yes! Magazine)

Details histories of social movements in Central and South America, particularly in Argentina
The Guardian piece on Argentina workers' cooperative

Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society (1962)

Launched the SDS and laid out values and systems for participatory democracy

Rebel Cities

Is America ready for a municipalist movement (ROAR magazine)

overview of anti-fascist election response with a municipalist flavor

Open Source Cities (Transnational Institute)

Open source cities: municipalist movements in mexico, spain, greece, and around the world! Long, but a very good read!!!

Communalism Pamphlet

Multi-lingual Communalism Pamphlet. Goes in depth on many facets of the philosophy, from ecological to political and technological, and the foundations of the hierarchy, the state and capitalism, as well as outlines for a decentralized confederation of towns and cities governed from the bottom up. Highly recommended reading for the ideologically inclined!

Consolidating Power (ROAR magazine)

David Harvey - CUNY Marxist Geographer and proponent of the “Right to the City” and author of “Rebel Cities” talks about the city as central to resistance to and overthrow/replacement the of neoliberal-capitalist system, and how the concept of the ‘working class’ is changing - and so should our forms of organization and tactics - advocates neighborhood assemblies alongside workplace organizing to fully encompass working-class life in struggle
David Harvey on "reclaiming the city", from Kobane, Iraq to Baltimore

Robert Graham on Assemblies in Brazil, Greece and Turkey

The Transition Town Movement

A radical hyper-local community sustainability movement - building resilient communities deeply connected to place and community

Decentralized Social Movements / organizing

SwarmWise -The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. - how decentralized political movements can grow and win, written by Swedish Pirate Party movement founder

Stigmergy - beyond tyranny of the majority (voting) and tyranny of the individual (consensus)
Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America - Bolivian Miners Neighborhood councils

Bookchin & Social Ecology

Srsly Wrong Podcast 96 - Google Murray Bookchin

Entertaining podcast that is a good intro to Bookchin’s theories and their 21st century applications in Syria and elsewhere.

Janet Biehl - Bookchin's Revolutionary Program

Bookchin - The meaning of Confederalism

“"The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking"

Institute for Social Ecology -

institute for social ecology! Blog, resources, online courses.

Libertarian Municipalism: an Overview

Excellent source document on municipalism from the philosopher who originally developed it (also a bit less accessible, but still super important)

On Spontaneity and Organization

Bookchin on creating organizations so that we can be spontaneous!

Open Source Ecology - Technologies for an ecological society

Syria and Rojava

Dilar Dirik - Building Democracy Without the State.

Dirik is one of the best writers on Rojava today, and this article is I think one of the most worthwhile if you want to get a sense of the scope of the social revolution taking place there.

Democratic Confederalism - Abdullah Ocalan

A bit less accessible in its terminology, but it’s a good statement of the ideology behind the Rojava revolution from the person who did the most to that ideology and leads the main organization implementing it

Rojava's Communes and Councils

Rojava Neighborhood Councils - Feminism, ecology and democracy without the State in Northern Syria

Syrian Revolutionary Coordinating Committees

Non-Rojava take on the Syrian people’s popular revolution. Possibly even more relevant for us, as they were started in opposition to a dictator, rather than situated in a struggle for Kurdish national liberation.

Democratic Modernity vs. Capitalist Modernity

What western feminists can learn from the women's struggle in Syria -

Cooperative Economy of Rojava Site detailing the developing cooperative economy in Bakur & Rojava

P2P foundation- Autonomy in Rojava - good compilation of interviews and source documents

Revolution is a mass of contradictions (interview)

Janet Biehl interview

Constitution of Rojava Constitution of Rojava

Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan

Direct Democracy

Direct Democracy: Popular self-management beyond hierarchy

What is direct democracy?

Guidebook to Direct Democracy In Switzerland And Beyond

Guide to Direct Democracy pdf - the Swiss system of direct democracy

Heather Marsh: government as mass collaboration

Mutual Aid

MUTUAL AID TOOLBOX

Hierarchy is Detrimental for Human Cooperation -

Katherine A. Cronin, Daniel J. Acheson, Penélope Hernández & Angel Sánchez in Scientific Reports

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Original book ‘Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution’ by Peter Kropotkin, 1902

Direct Action

Organizing for Power - Direct Action Planning Template

Solidarity

From charity to solidarity: a critique of ally politics (ROAR Magazine, January 2016)

Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation

Essay written by POC caucus at Occupy Oakland - critical of liberal conceptions of identity politics and such practices as ‘privilege checking’ w/out material programs to change systemic injustices and organization based on affinity and solidarity

The Politics of Solidarity: Six Nations, Leadership, and the Settler Left

Solidarity (here in a canadian indigenous context) is complicated, and involves much more than just ‘taking leadership’ from oppressed groups or individuals

Cooperative Economy

What is the Solidarity Economy?

Solidarity Economics Strategies for Building New Economies From the Bottom-Up and the Inside-Out - Ethan Miller

Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson on Democracy Now!, December 2017

Self defense

Know Your (Gun) Rights! A Primer for Radicals

The Anti-Racist Neighborhood Watch Starter Kit

PDX Assembly/NW Antifascist Workers Collective Neighborhood Watch Pamphlet

Racial Justice

Platform of the Movement for Black Lives

Philosophy of Racism and Racialization (video):

For White Accomplices

Philosophy of Racism and Racialization (video):

Identity Crisis - A history of Identity politics and the left

Police / ICE / Criminal Injustice

Police abolition syllabus

A World Without Police (pamphlet)

6 Ideas for a World Without Police (Rolling Stone)

Fighting Deportation and Immigration Raids

Gentrification

Communities of Resistance - An Anti-Capitalist Response to Gentrification

The Commons

Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles for Managing A Commons

Elinor Ostrom’s 8 principles for managing common resources. They also make for foundational principles of good governance

Ostrom in the City: Design Principles for the Urban Commons

Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm

David Bollier writes for the Next System Project on how “commoning” public life and economies can lead to a more liberated political system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bQiBcd7mBc

"The Power of Neighborhood" and The Commons

“The Power of Neighborhood and the Commons” P.M.

Participatory Budgeting

What is participatory budgeting?

Project for establishing municipal participatory budgeting

Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America (Kyle has this and is happy to lend it out)

Academic treatment of PB initiatives in the US

Examples:

Meet the Citizens Who Helped Decide Their City’s Budget—and Got Better Buses, Benches, and Crosswalks

Greensboro NC implements PB in all districts of the city to great results.

Liberatory Technology

P2P Foundation

“We are a decentralized, self-organized, globally distributed community building an information-commons ecosystem for the growing P2P/Commons movement

Liquid Feedback / on Wikipedia

Open source democracy software

DemocracyOS

DemocracyOS, more open source decisionware

Collaborative e-democracy on Wikipedia

Loomio

Open source cooperative software for group decision making

Good Conduct for Organizers

Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements

Description of the connection between tolerating misogyny and gender violence “because he does good movement work” and government efforts to destroy the Left

The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Discussion of how informal decision-making structures are inherently exclusionary (and what democratic decision-making looks like instead)

Techniques for consensus decision making in large groups: the spokespersons council method

Spokescouncil management guide

Consensus Decision Making

Consensus Decision-making for groups

Ronda Rousey vs. Bruce Lee: What Progressives Can Learn from Mixed Martial Arts & Game Theory

Strategy and Tactics: Why diversity is the key to success, using MMA as an organizing metaphor

SOME ZAPATISTA PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES…

Zapatista principles of leadership, “caminar preguntando”

Center For Story-Based Strategy

Studies show that belief change occurs best through narrative. This organization uses this knowledge to help activists and revolutionaries tell powerful stories that can help them change the world
Additional research on narrative strategy

Understanding the Opposition

Neoliberalism Is a Political Project (Jacobin, July 2016)

Historical and analytical look at how things got to be the way they are

Lecture and Book - The History of White People

Academic dismantling of the idea of a “white race,” white supremacy and the identification of “caucasian.” K has the book & happy to share.

Political Research Associates Resources for Organizers

Political Research Associates seem to cover a lot of what this project is about. Excellent coverage of hate groups and strategies to deal with them.

The Journal of Hate Studies

Journal of Hate Studies
Gonzaga Institute for Hate Studies is amazing. It’s academic, for sure, but there are some good case studies. Check out Vol. 12, no. 1, ‘Uniting the Right’ if you’re interested in skinhead organizations.

Trump’s First Hundred Days and the Fascist Agenda

The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement

Investigation into white-supremacist infiltration of law enforcement institutions

The Alt-Right Is Using Trump

Great break-down of Steve Bannon’s agenda from a constitutional conservative perspective.

Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression

Hannah Arendt on the Origins of Totalitarianism

The Safety Pin and the Swastika

On the ‘identitarianism’ of the far-right and how the left plays into this strategy

Security Issues

CRYPTO-FASCISTS AND PRO-WHITE SEPARATISTS ARE ENTERING AND RECRUITING FROM PROGRESSIVE CIRCLES. THIS ESSAY OFFERS SOME GUIDELINES FOR IDENTIFYING AND DEALING WITH THIS GROWING PROBLEM.

Positive strategies for engaging with fascists and white nationalists in progressive activist organizations, and an empowering perspective on setting boundaries.

CW: Right-wing website. Do NOT read the comments.

* http://www.amren.com/news/2016/11/keeping-an-eye-on-the-lefties/ *

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American Renaissance graffiti has appeared frequently in Seattle lately. They are a major national right-wing opinion outlet. This article is an explicit call to action for right-wing infiltration of ‘lefty’ meetings, organizations, and actions.

Because these people are mega-trolls, if nothing else:

Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications

Electronic Frontier Foundation’s, Surveillance Self-Defense page.

Portland Assembly Computer Security Toolkit

Privacy Tools

Privacy tools compilation

Master Password App

KeePass download page

encrypted password keeper

Privacy Tools Secure Password Generator

secure password generator

VeraCrypt

disc and partition encyption software

TOR Browser

Firefox-based browser for connecting to TOR anonymous browsing network

TAILS OS

TAILS OS - anonymous OS stored on usb or cd. Leave no trace.

Don't use Windows 10 - It's a privacy nightmare

Don’t use Windows 10! Data mining and privacy nightmare

Friendica

Federated/decentralized privacy-focused social networking site. Claims to be able to integrate most existing social accounts into one hub. Needs more research

Zines, Pamphlets and posters

#TrumpTheRegime: Resources and Ongoing Resistance to Trump and the Far-Right

Very anarchist. So many good zines and easy to distribute materials.

Longer Reads

Zapatista Manuals

Autonomous Government I

Autonomous Government II

Autonomous Resistance

Books, Publishers, and Media