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An interconnected web of the key strategies and tactics that have inspired people-powered victories & upended the status quo. Start anywhere and explore…

Metodología

Baraza

Baraza

Una comunidad juntándose para discutir temas importantes, compartir información, y responsabilizar a los líderes.

Principio

Escalar estratégicamente

Escalar estratégicamente

Cuando los movimientos se acaloran, existe una tendencia a volverse tan extremo que se pierde el contacto con la base. Los buenos líderes definen lo “extremo” de manera constructiva, y escalan sus campañas de manera estratégica.

Táctica

Huelga de hambre

Huelga de hambre

La abstención deliberada y pública de alimentos, y a veces de agua, como una forma de protesta moral contra la injusticia y el abuso de poder. Un sólo individuo puede hacer una huelga de hambre, o de cientos de personas unidas en solidaridad.

Principio

Solidaridad, no ayuda

Solidaridad, no ayuda

Los líderes de base en todo el mundo están criticando cada vez más la ayuda externa como una nueva forma de dependencia neocolonial, e insisten en que la solidaridad, y no la ayuda, se convierta en el cimiento de las asociaciones entre las ONG y las bases.

Historia

Angola 15+2

Angola 15+2

The story of how 17 young activists risked their lives in hunger strikes and flash mobs to force out Angola’s brutal dictator and bring an end to over 30 years of oppression.

Historia

Bring Back Our Girls

Bring Back Our Girls

In April 2014, 276 girls were abducted from their school by the Boko Haram terrorist group, sparking a massive global campaign demanding their return.

Táctica

Citizen’s arrest

Citizen’s arrest

What can people do when criminals or corrupt officials are beyond the reach of the law? Arrest them!

Táctica

Cultural disobedience

Cultural disobedience

Civil disobedience is the deliberate violation of unjust laws. In a similar spirit, cultural disobedience bravely subverts unjust cultural norms.

Principio

Expose inequality with a viral gesture

Expose inequality with a viral gesture

A simple, defiant gesture (say, thousands of stone-broke people turning their pockets inside-out as they go about their day) can bring economic inequality to the surface and make oppressive institutions panic.

Historia

Fees Must Fall

Fees Must Fall

The 2015 tuition hikes sparked a national student movement in South Africa that demanded comprehensive reform and questioned the political, social, and economic status quo of the “rainbow nation.”

Historia

#​Gambia​Has​Decided

#​Gambia​Has​Decided

After almost a decade of building momentum, Gambians seized a crucial window of opportunity in 2016 to overthrow a notorious dictator.

Teoría

Gerontocracy

Gerontocracy

Gerontocracy is the rule of the old over the young — a form of oppression primarily exercised across a society or culture, but sometimes also specifically within governments or other institutional structures.

Historia

Ghana ThinkTank

Ghana ThinkTank

A global art project that flips the script on the international aid model by enlisting regular folks in Ghana and elsewhere throughout the Global South to help “develop the First World.”

Principio

Give voice to those that can’t speak

Give voice to those that can’t speak

Trees can’t speak, right? Wrong! There are many creative ways to give voice to those that can’t speak — be it trees, animals, or archeological artifacts — so humans can hear their plight loud and clear.

Historia

Kisangani Demands Electric Power

Kisangani Demands Electric Power

Despite state violence, the people of Kisangani forced the Congolese authorities to honor their constitutional right to reliable electric power.

Táctica

Lamentation

Lamentation

Public mourning as protest.

Historia

Manich Msamah

Manich Msamah

After the revolution, Tunisian youth combined their wit and passion to demand “no reconciliation without accountability!” and prevent the corrupt business elite from escaping justice.

Teoría

New Pan-Afrikanism

New Pan-Afrikanism

A continuation of the historic Pan-African struggle for freedom, justice, and dignity across the continent, renewed to tackle the particular challenges Africa faces today.

Teoría

Palace coup

Palace coup

When civilian resistance threatens to depose a dictator, that dictator may try to short-circuit the people by handing over power to one of his own. This is known as a palace coup, or “faux-verthrow.”

Historia

Street Graduation

Street Graduation

Graduates across Zimbabwe creatively turned their unemployment into a daily protest routine, instilling a clear link in public consciousness between unemployment, the financial crisis, and corruption.

Historia

#​This​Flag

#​This​Flag

One individual’s outcry for a better future inspired the citizens of Zimbabwe to find their courage and overthrow a ruthless dictator.

Principio

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself

What’s better than waging a campaign and winning? Not waging a campaign and still winning! You can do that by making a (credible) threat your opponent gives into without a fight (or even calling your bluff).

Principio

Use organizing strategies that scale

Use organizing strategies that scale

Once your movement has a clear story, structure and strategy, you can scale up quickly by finding ways for people to start organizing using the resources already available to them in their daily lives.