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Beautiful Trouble is an agile, office-less, dispersed operation of artists, activists, and other creators.
The most powerful troublemaking is made together. We learn from and work with incredible movement-based organizations who contribute toolbox content, team up with us for trainings, and more.
Get in touch to see how we can work with your organization.
350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. They believe in holding leaders accountable to realities of science and principles of justice, and act as a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. Their online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by people in 188 countries.
ActionAid is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. Their strategy is to build international momentum for social, economic and environmental justice, driven by people living in poverty and exclusion.
In practice, this means working closely with people living in poverty and exclusion, civil society organisations, social movements and supporters.
Africans Rising is a Pan-African movement of people working for Justice Pease & Dignity. Africans Rising is determined to foster an Africa-wide solidarity and unity of purpose of the Peoples of Africa to build the Future we want – a right to peace, social inclusion and shared prosperity. Africans Rising amplifies broad demands connecting struggles, building solidarity & cooperation within & amongst campaigns for social, economic, environmental and gender justice.
Ahel supports community groups and organizations that lead collective action to bring about change for freedom, justice and protection of human rights. They coach and train leaders and organisations interested in leading collective action to bring about the change they need and build their people power. Ahel works primarily in Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon.
The Alliance of Community Trainers offers knowledge, tools and skills to individuals, organizations and communities to empower sustainable transformation. Whether it be community or organizational development, problem solving or conflict resolution, consensus decision-making, facilitation, strategic campaigns, media and public speaking, alternative technology, nonviolent action or environmental sustainability, we support people starting where they are and learning their vision of what they want.
Backbone Campaign is a progressive movement-building organization promoting creative strategic action to deliver power to We the People. Backbone provides creative strategies, artful action support, and convenes training opportunities for change agents across the United States. Their purpose is to accelerate the growth of a social movement powerful enough to manifest a world where life, community, nature and our obligations to future generations are NOT for sale, but honored as sacred.
Beyond the Choir is an online space for grassroots change agents — folks who are engaged in grassroots organizing, activism, advocacy, etc. — to share practical strategies, tactics and tools. It’s also a place to dig into deeper social change theory — and to make it practical. There are lots of great websites that cover and critique the news. BeyondtheChoir.org is more about figuring out how we can organize ourselves and strategically intervene.
BlackOUT Collective is a radical full service direct action organization. We build organizations’ capacity to execute creative and effective direct actions in service of their organizing and advocacy work. We do this through providing personalized direct action trainings and on the ground action support. We see ourselves as a “Liberation Lab”- a container for experimentation, deep space visioning and learning.
The Center for Artistic Activism is the home for artists, activists and scholars to explore, discuss, reflect upon, and strengthen connections between social activism and artistic practice. We facilitate projects and strengthen networks. Our goal is to make more creative and more effective citizen activists.
The Center for Story-based Strategy (formerly smartMeme) is a national strategy center that offers social justice networks and organizations the analysis, training and strategic support to win the battle of ideas with narrative strategies. SmartMeme re-imagines methods to achieve fundamental social change with effective story-based approaches to framing that amplify the impact of grassroots organizing and challenge the underlying assumptions that shape the status quo.
CODEPINK is a woman-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities.
Escola de Ativismo is an independent, non-partisan collective based in São Paulo and active in different regions of Brazil. The school provides training in grassroots and campaign strategies to organizations, collectives, movements and individuals working for greater democracy.
Global Platforms is ActionAid’s network of activist hubs and training centres for youth-led activism. The Global Platforms deliver participatory and action-oriented capacity building for youth-led activism. The Global Platforms are dynamic and inspiring environments where young people (aged 16-35) live and learn together, where they can think freely, develop their own ideas and connect, discuss and act on local, national and global political issues.
The New Economy Coalition is a membership-based network representing the solidarity economy movement in the United States. We exist to organize our members into a more powerful and united force, in order to accelerate the transition of our economic system from capitalism to a solidarity economy.
Nonviolence International researches and promotes nonviolent action and seeks to reduce the use of violence worldwide. They believe that every cultural and religious tradition can discover and employ culturally appropriate nonviolent methods for positive social change and international peace that can break the cycle of violence in favor of constructive rather than destructive outcomes.
The Other 98% was founded on the premise that our economy and democracy should work for everyday Americans, not the elite 2% of bankers, CEOs and lobbyists who’ve hijacked our democracy and rigged the system to serve themselves. It’s the middle class that’s too big to fail, and we’re using creative tactics — both online and in the streets — to, well, rally ourselves to our own cause. We stand in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and allied efforts to build a people-powered movement that can break the corporate stranglehold on our democracy and achieve true economic justice.
The Ruckus Society has trained and assisted thousands of activists in the use of nonviolent direct action. We see ourselves as a toolbox of experience, training and skills. We provide instruction on the application of tactical and strategic tools to a growing number of organizations and individuals from around the world via skill shares and training that are designed to move a campaign forward.
Solidarity Uganda is a progressive organization of activists, community organizers, and political education trainers focused on building the power of poor and oppressed peoples throughout Africa and beyond. Solidarity Uganda has helped countless grassroots campaigns and movements in East Africa and elsewhere achieve their goals, build their numbers and power, and develop better strategies for engendering lasting change.
The TESA Collective (The Toolbox for Education and Social Action) works with organizations and groups to build tools, games, and programs for their cause. TESA's clients include small community groups, national nonprofits, movement builders, city governments, companies with missions, and more.
Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society.
Waging Nonviolence is a source for news, analysis and original reporting about nonviolent activism, as well as for discussion of the theory behind it. These stories often go overlooked by the mainstream media, yet people are using nonviolent strategies and tactics all around us in response to the most pressing challenges — and reshaping our world in the process.
The Yes Men, called “the Jonathan Swift of the Jackass Generation” by author Naomi Klein, are best known for infiltrating the world of big business and doing incredibly stupid things to expose the world’s biggest corporate criminals. Although fronted by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, their membership includes hundreds or perhaps thousands of secret agents, all of whom were recently acquired in a hostile takeover by the Yes Lab.