Boîte à outils:

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

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Abolition

Une vision politique, une analyse structurelle de l'oppression et une stratégie d'organisation pratique visant une société qui aborde les préjudices sans recourir aux prisons, à la police, à l'armée ou à d'autres systèmes violents.

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Action directe

Action qui change nos circonstances sans remettre le pouvoir à un intermédiaire. L'action directe interrompt le cours normal des affaires, prend le leadership et introduit un récit alternatif.

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Action logique

Votre action doit parler d'elle-même. Sa logique interne doit être évidente à l'œil extérieur. Lorsqu'une protestation a une bonne logique d'action, son défi dramatique au pouvoir raconte une histoire claire et convaincante.

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Actions expressives et instrumentales

Les actions politiques tendent soit à exprimer une identité, soit à essayer de remporter des changements concrets. Apprenez à faire la différence pour pouvoir choisir celle qui sert le mieux votre objectif.

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Capitalisme

Le capitalisme est un système économique axé sur le profit qui, malgré ses supposés avantages matériels, est enraciné dans l'inégalité, l'exploitation, la dépossession et la destruction de l'environnement.

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Décolonisation

Une forme de désobéissance ascendante qui ravive les idées et les expériences vécues des indigènes pour contester l'impact de la colonisation historique et inverser sa trajectoire.

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Économie solidaire

Une tradition d'organisation économique radicale émergeant d'Amérique latine qui s'efforce de remplacer la dépendance aux relations économiques d'exploitation par des "chaînes de solidarité" reliant des alternatives communautaires.

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Framing

Comme le cadre autour d'une photographie, un cadre conceptuel met en lumière certains événements et faits, tout en rendant d'autres invisibles. Encadrer efficacement votre message peut faire la différence entre gagner et perdre.

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La doctrine du choc

Le néolibéralisme traite les crises telles que les guerres, les catastrophes naturelles et les récessions comme des opportunités pour imposer la privatisation, la déréglementation et les réductions des services sociaux. Les mouvements sociaux doivent contester ces moments.

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La gérontocratie

La gérontocratie est la domination des vieillardes et vieillards sur les jeunes — une forme d’oppression principalement exercée sur une société ou une culture, qui se réfère parfois aux gouvernements et autres institutions.

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La NGO-isation de la résistance

Lorsque les organisateurs de première ligne passent plus de temps à rédiger des rapports de subvention qu'à changer le système, quelque chose ne va pas. Les personnes les plus touchées par l'injustice, et non celles travaillant pour de grandes ONG, devraient diriger le mouvement.

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Le coup d’État du palais

Quand la résistance civile menace de renverser un dictateur, il peut tenter de la court-circuiter en cédant le pouvoir à une personne de son choix. C’est ce qu’on appelle un coup d’État du palais, ou « flou d’État » ;-)

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Le nouveau panafricanisme

Réaffirmer et approfondir le mouvement panafricain historique pour la liberté, la justice et la dignité sur l’ensemble du continent afin de mieux répondre aux défis lancés à l’Afrique actuellement.

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Les communs

Les richesses naturelles et culturelles nous appartiennent à tous, comme l'air, l'eau, les forêts, les bibliothèques et Internet. Ces dons partagés sont les fondations d'un monde plus juste et doivent être protégés et étendus.

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Politiques préfiguratives

En créant dès maintenant - via une action directe visionnaire et en vivant nos valeurs - le monde futur que nous souhaitons voir, nous pouvons expérimenter par nous-mêmes comment un monde meilleur est non seulement nécessaire mais possible.

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Théâtre de l’Opprimé

Un ensemble de jeux et d'exercices théâtraux qui permettent aux gens d'explorer les luttes collectives, d'analyser leur histoire et leurs circonstances actuelles, puis d'expérimenter l'invention d'un nouvel avenir ensemble.

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Al faza’a (a surge of solidarity)

A key segment of your supporters will only join at peak moments of your campaign — usually in response to an external event — and then disappear again. To win, you must be ready to make the most of this surge.

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Alienation effect

Bertolt Brecht’s method for using innovative theatrical techniques to “make the familiar strange” in order to provoke a social analysis and a critical response from the audience.

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Anti-oppression

Anti-oppression practice provides a framework for constructively addressing and transforming oppressive dynamics as they play out in our organizing.

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Artivism

Artivism, the intersection of art and activism, harnesses the critical imagination to design events and strategies that provoke new questions and new meaning in pursuit of more respectful ways of being.

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Baltajiah (thugs)

A common political formation shows up across the Arab World: an often marginalized grouping of individuals that the government can call on to momentarily disrupt movements seeking change.

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Commodity fetishism

Money, debt, property rights, and markets are not unchangeable facts, but symbolic systems based in social relationships. Activists should inspire radical hope by exposing that they can and should be changed.

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Comunalidad (communality)

Comunalidad is a way of naming and describing the daily practice of coexistence in an autonomous collectivity, in the service of everyone, as practiced in the indigenous communities of Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Critical multiculturalism

Critical multiculturalism disrupts power structures by challenging the subjugation of marginalized cultures, questioning power and privilege, and acknowledging knowledge as a process.

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Debt revolt

Realizing our collective power to withdraw our willingness to pay debts is potentially as system-shaking today as the power of the industrial working class to withdraw its labour power a century ago.

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“Democracy promotion”

Democracy promotion is the term the US uses to describe efforts to penetrate and control emergent civil societies in targeted countries — those with regimes deemed unfriendly or unstable by policymakers.

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Dunbar’s number

We can only maintain 150 I-care-you-care relationships. These strong, primary relationships foster empowerment and social cohesion, while more rule-based relationships favor management. This impacts organizing.

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Environmental justice

Only by looking at environmental issues through a social justice lens can we effectively challenge abuses of power that target indigenous people, people of colour, and other disenfranchised communities.

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Ethical spectacle

Since politics is not just about facts and reason, but also desire and fantasy, activists need to engage in spectacle. By honouring our principles, our spectacles can be ethical, liberating, and reality-based.

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Feminism

Feminist social movements identify patriarchal power as a fundamental source of injustice and inequality, and hence call to transform gender power relations in all domains.

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Floating signifier

A floating signifier is a symbol or concept (for example, the Zapatista balaclava) that's loose enough to mean many things to many people, yet specific enough to galvanize action in a particular direction.

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Glitch feminism

When the systems and technologies that mediate our lives “glitch” or malfunction, those marginalized by tech can seize the radical potential of this moment. Theory coined by scholar-activist Legacy Russell.

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The Global South

The Global South is not a place, but a way of talking about a diverse set of struggles: the uprising of the planet’s people against neoliberal policies, at least, and against the capitalist system, at most.

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Hacking

Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman defines a hack as “a clever technical solution arrived at through non-obvious means.” Hacking is more than rogue computer programming; it’s a rebellious solutionary spirit.

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Hamoq and hamas

Turning anger into action is necessary, but that anger is most effective when it is disciplined and intelligently focused (hamas). Uncontrolled, stupid anger (hamoq) mostly undermines your own cause.

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Human rights

All human beings are equally entitled to basic rights and freedoms without discrimination. While these rights are universal, human rights frameworks remain incomplete and must be advanced by popular struggle.

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Memes

Memes are self-replicating units of cultural information that spread virally from mind to mind, network to network, generation to generation.

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Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism, today’s dominant ideology, reduces the state to a handmaiden of transnational capital. In pursuing the relentless privatization of the commons, its policies inevitably spark popular discontent.

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Participatory democracy

Unlike representative democracy, which is often a tame affair of choosing between the lesser of two evils, participatory democracy involves masses of people directly transforming their lives and society.

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

A theory of education by which, according to Paulo Freire, “men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”

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The people’s shock

Crises such as coups, wars, natural disasters, recessions, and pandemics are not just opportunities for the powers that be to impose their will, but for people power to win great victories.

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Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

The glass is half full and half empty. We need hard-headed realism and full-hearted idealism to change the world.

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Political identity paradox

Group identity creates a cohesive community for activists, yet tends to foster a subculture that can alienate the public. Balancing these two tendencies is key to sustaining our work and maximizing its impact.

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Postcolonialism

Postcolonial theory forces us to acknowledge that oppression occurs not just in economic relations, but also in the very categories of meaning-making that produce reality as we know, understand, and live it.

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Poverty

A focus on “poverty” relies on a charity framework that can never bring justice. To counter the process of impoverishment requires political action against those who cause and benefit from impoverishment.

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The propaganda model

The propaganda model suggests that media outlets operating within a capitalist economy will consistently produce news content that aligns with the interests of political and economic elites.

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Revolutionary nonviolence

Revolutionary nonviolence emphasizes dialogue among radicals of different stripes and seeks to build unity around a shared commitment to revolutionary social transformation via mass civil resistance.

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Revolutionary reform

Revolutionary reforms are smaller, more achievable changes that can lay the groundwork for more systemic and lasting change.

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The social cure

The actions of our peers are more likely to motivate us to act than either information or an appeal to fear. The social cure shows us how to harness this power of social groups for social change.

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Society of the spectacle

Modern capitalism upholds social control through "the spectacle" — the use of mass communications to turn us into consumers and passive spectators of our own lives, history, and power.

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Strategic nonviolence

A framework for broad-based direct action emphasizing openness, accountability, and agreements on "how we want to work together this time," designed to build large, inclusive, diverse, and effective movements.

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The tactics of everyday life

We often think of activist tactics as serving a larger campaign strategy. Instead, it might be more liberating and agile to think of tactics not as a subset of strategy, but as a democratic response to it.

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Temporary autonomous zone

A T.A.Z. is a liberated area “of land, time or imagination” where one can be for something, not just against, and where new ways of being human together can be explored and experimented with.