Toolbox:

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

Theory

Comunalidad (communality)

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.

Story

Zapatista Caravan

Zapatista Caravan

In 1994, university students organized educational brigades to break the information blockade and rumours about the uprising of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN).

Story

CryptoRally in Mexico City

CryptoRally in Mexico City

In response to a sweeping new telecommunications law, the CryptoRally was organized as a game played out on the streets of Mexico City, whose goal is to build skills in digital security and freedom of speech.

Story

Maraiwatsede: the land belongs to the Xavante

Maraiwatsede: the land belongs to the Xavante

During Rio+20, the Xavante indigenous people partnered with other organizations mastering a strategic intervention to regain the land that had been promised to them 20 years before.

Story

Trail of Dreams

Trail of Dreams

In 2010, four US immigrant youth leaders walked 1,500 miles to Washington, D.C. to put a human face on the immigration debate and pressure politicians to fix the broken and unjust US immigration system.

Principle

Everything for everyone, and nothing for ourselves

Everything for everyone, and nothing for ourselves

A Zapatista principle of bottom-up resistance to defend the commons and promote mutual aid in opposition to the self-serving and exploitative logic of capitalism.

Story

Yomango

Yomango

The ethical shoplifting, culture jamming, direct-action movement Yomango turned the impulse to shoplift into a movement and an art form.

Principle

Lead with sympathetic characters

Lead with sympathetic characters

Good actions tell a good story. Good stories revolve around sympathetic characters. The most sympathetic characters are members of the impacted community that outsiders can easily relate to.