101 Things to Make You a Radical

101 Things to make you a Radical

How to...

Activism 101

Protest.net has a great intro to activism

http://protest.net/activists_handbook/

Activist Toolbox from UHC

http://www.uhc-collective.org.uk/knowledge/toolbox/index.htm

Strategy

The Midwest Academy’s “Organizing for Social Change”

http://www.mindspring.com/~midwestacademy/Organize/page5.html

Process

Consensus

http://www.activism.net/peace/nvcdh/consensus.shtml

Spokescouncil

http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/spokes.html

Affinity Groups

http://www.activism.net/peace/nvcdh/affinity.shtml

Tactics

Street Protest

http://www.youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=243#

Civil Disobedience

Gene Sharp

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations.php3?orgid=88&typeID=15&action=printContentTypeHome

ActUp's Guide to Civil Disobedience

http://www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/CDindex.html

We Interrupt This Empire

http://media.portland.indymedia.org/media/2003/07/269038.mov

How to "Reclaim the Streets"

http://rts.gn.apc.org/sortit.htm

Another World is Possible

World Social Forum

http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.asp?id_menu=15&cd_language=2

Messaging

Act Up Media Training

http://www.actupny.org/reports/Media%20Training.html

Independent Media

Independent Media in a Time of War

http://www.democracynow.org/static/IMIATOW.shtml

IndyMedia

Independent Media in Action

http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=587

Democracy Now

http://democracynow.org/about.shtml

Free Speech TV

http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/html/aboutus.shtml

Pacifica

http://www.pacifica.org/about/lhtheory_1951.html

Issues

Identity

Labor

Unions, Organizing and Democracy - Living in One's Time, Building for the Future by Katherine Sciacchitano

http://www.zmag.org/dissent.htm

America's Workers Can't Spend Praise By John J. Sweeney, Washington Post, October 24, 2001

http://www.zmag.org/sweenyamerwr.cfm

Labor Day, and American workers' rights by Ralph Nader

http://www.zmag.org/naderlaborday.htm

Race

“Who's a Terrorist?”, “Planet of the Arabs” and “Arabs A-Go-Go”

http://www.jsalloum.org/videos.html#

Dismantling Racism

http://prisonactivist.org/cws/dr-culture.html

Black Panther News Reel: Off the Pig

http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/videoviewer.php?video_id=547&search_text=panthers&searchmode=&page=0&content_type_id=

Racist Activism 101 (Sarcastic Anti-Racist article)

http://colours.mahost.org/org/101.html

Where Was The Color In Seattle? Looking for reasons why the Great Battle was so white.

http://www.illegalvoices.org/apoc/knowledge/articles/street/martinez.html

Against Half-Assed Race and Class Theory and Practice

http://www.illegalvoices.org/apoc/knowledge/articles/ideas/wong.html

Institutional Racism Instructional - Justin Podur

http://www.zmag.org/racewatch/znet_race_instructional.htm

The Ten Point Plan of the Black Panther Party

http://www.blackpanther.org/TenPoint.htm

Speech by Tim Wise, Founder of Association of White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE)

http://www.pacifica.org/programs/flashpoints/index_flashpoints0311.html

Gender

bell hooks on “Challenging Capitalism & Patriarchy”

http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/dec95hooks.htm

Putting Community Back in the Domestic Violence Movement by Anannya Bhattacharjee

http://www.zmag.org/content/Race/bhattacharjee_domestic-violence.cfm

Backlashes and Bare Asses: Anti-War Dixie Chicks Take Off All Their Clothes

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2003-05/13peters.cfm

Sexual Orientation

Same-Sex Domestic Partnership Benefits Represent a Limited Gain by Cynthia Peters

http://www.zmag.org/ZSustainers/ZDaily/2000-08/25peters.htm

Gay ... Pride? by Bradford Lang Rothrock

http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/sept96rothrock.htm

Radical

Radical Theory Instructional

http://www.zmag.org/instructionals/rtinstruc/index.htm

Anarchist

An Introduction to Anarchism

http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/sp001550.html

The Black Bloc for Dummies

http://www.infoshop.org/blackbloc.html

Prominent Anarchists and Left-Libertarians

http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/libertarians.html

Anarchism in Los Angeles (Short Video)

http://www.passionbomb.com/video/anarchyla.htm

Communists

Vanguardists

Dealing with Vanguardists in your Community

http://www.infoshop.org/texts/dealing_with_vanguards.html

A Guide to the Left (Liberal, Soft, Hard/Vanguard

http://www.infoshop.org/left_field_guide.html

Authoritarian Opportunists Who Cozy Up To Genocidal Dictators (Sarcastic site about ANSWER)

http://www.authoritarianopportunistswhocozyuptogenocidaldictators-forpeace.org/

What You Should Know about the Workers World and International Action Center (and ANSWER)

http://www.infoshop.org/texts/wwp.html

A Critical Look at the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

http://www.illegalvoices.org/apoc/knowledge/articles/ideas/jackson.html

National

South Africa

The "Free Mandela" Movement

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/campaigns/prisoner.html

East Timor

East Timor Action Network - Independence is Just the Beginning

http://etan.org/etanpdf/pdf1/gen0201.pdf

Haiti

US-Haiti

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=5115

Puerto Rico

Vieques

http://www.viequeslibre.org/

Palestine

Imperial Geography

http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=335

The Occupation 101

http://occupation101.com/

Edward Said "Palestinian Solidarity"

http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20031020.ra&start=11:24.3

Rachel Corrie

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2506.shtml

Pro-Israel Propaganda

http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=721

Afghanistan

Robert Fisk - One Year On In Afghanistan

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=2189

Iraq

Tariq Ali "Bush in Babylon" from Democracy Now!

http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20031016.ra&start=14:00.5

Iraq Body Count

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

Tariq Ali vs. Christopher Hitchens on the Occupation of Iraq: Postponed Liberation or Recolonisation?

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/04/1523254

Iran

The 1953 US Backed Coup in Iran

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/1534210

"Life of Dr. Mossadegh" -- A Look at the Iranian Leader Overthrown By the U.S.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/1541251

El Salvador

The History of Imperialism in El Salvador

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/index-dba.html

Bush Brewing Poverty and Violence In El Salvador

http://www.zmag.org/content/ForeignPolicy/engler_elsalvador.cfm

CAFTA: Free Trade vs. Democracy

http://www.americaspolicy.org/commentary/2003/0301cafta-opp_body.html

The UN Truth Commission on the El Mozote Massacre

http://www.icomm.ca/carecen/page61.html

The UN Truth Commission on the assassination of Salvadoran Arch-Bishop Oscar Romero

http://www.icomm.ca/carecan/page41.html

USA

What to the Slave Is 4th of July by Frederick Douglass

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16324

Mumia Abu-Jamal: True African American History

http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=451

Native America

Leonard Peltier

http://www.leonardpeltier.org/quickfact.html

For American to Live, Europe Must Die! By Russell Means

http://www.russellmeans.com/speech.html

The Covert War Against Native Americans

http://sisis.nativeweb.org/sov/covert.html

Cuba

Cuba Controversy by Michael Albert

http://zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=3534&sectionID=20

Venezuela

Venezuela in Black and White

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1062

Spain

The Spanish Civil War: Anarchism in Action

http://struggle.ws/pdfs/spain.pdf

The Abraham Linclon Brigade of the Spanish Civil War

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/86/abe-brigade.html

International

"Terrorism"

Robert Fisk "9-11: The Question Why"

http://www.wbez.org/audio_library/ram/wv/wv_020423.ram

Imperialism

Understanding US Foreign Policy

http://www.zmag.org/Instructionals/ForeignPolicy/default.htm

Arundhati Roy "Instant Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One, Get one Free"

http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20031024.ra&start=05:17.4

Noam Chomsky "American Global Dominance"

http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20031022.ra&start=07:28.1

Martin Luther King "Militarism and US Foreign Policy"

http://stream.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20040119.ra&start=

War

S-11 Redux: (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse

http://gnn.tv/redux/

War Resisters League - The US Costs of War

http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm

Independent Media in a Time of War

http://www.democracynow.org/static/IMIATOW.shtml

Economics

The Corporation (the Movie)

http://www.thecorporation.tv/productdemos.php

Globalization

The Ring of Free Trade (funny video political parody of the Lord of the Rings)

http://www.passionbomb.com/video/ringfreetrade.htm

Break the Bank Part 1 (Documentary about the April 2000 protests of the World Bank)

http://www.freespeech.org/ramfiles/breakthebank1.ram

Break the Bank – Part 2 (Documentary about the April 2000 protests of the World Bank)

http://www.freesheech.org/ramfiles/breakthebank2.ram

A Dozen Reasons to Oppose the IMF and the World Bank

http://www.wisperedmedia.org/reasons.html

Human Rights

ICCPR/UDHR/Geneva Conventions

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs2.html

Biotech

Contaminated: The New Science of Food

http://www.guerrillanews.com/contaminated/

Actions

Anti War Actions

101 Things you can do to Stop war

http://www.earthfuture.com/stopthewar/

Media Activism - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)

http://www.fair.org/activism/

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dunno where to put this stuff

History of People Struggles

Culture

Hip Hop

http://gnn.tv/smoke/

Art and Activism

Ruckus Society

http://www.ruckus.org/

National Lawyers Guild

http://www.nlg.org

News Sources