Overview
Below is a table of resources I have used in the making of this output packet. Please note the table is divided because formating only allows a certain number of characters.
For a more accessible version please see the google doc here:
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Resource Review
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Resource |
Format |
Thematic Area |
Commentary |
Link |
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Phenomenon-Based Learning in Agroecology: A Prerequisite for Transdisciplinarity and Responsible Action Charles Francis, Tor Arvid Breland, Edvin Østergaard, Geir Lieblein & Suzanne Morse |
Academic Article |
Agroecology |
A standard academic article with lots of words but basically saying how action learning & real life experience is foundation of agroecology! |
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Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary, Participatory, and Action-Oriented Approach Ernesto Méndez, Christopher M. Bacon & Roseann Cohen Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara |
Academic Article |
Agroecology |
As above |
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Agroecology and Food System Transformation Steve Gliessman |
Academic Article |
Agroecology |
Solid article about agroecology & food system change |
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Agroecology: Growing the Roots of Resistance Steve Gliessman a a Program in Community and Agroecology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA Version of record first published: 17 Dec 2012 |
Academic Article |
Agroecology |
Great article about agroecology as a movement |
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How to Teach Agroecology: A Proposal, M Altieri |
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Agroecology, Popular Education |
Short text emphasising need for holisitic learning e.g. action learning, on the ground growing experience etc |
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Small Town Organising for Anarchists, Sprout Anarchist Collective |
Zine |
Anarchism, Community Organising |
Short primer on organising in a small town, quite light I felt in terms of useful info but nice to know it exists at least! |
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Acts of Rebellion, Ward Churchll |
Book |
Anarchism, Repression, Indigenous solidarity |
Essential reading on repression & indigenous struggle |
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Strategic action for animals, Melanie Joy |
Book |
Animal Liberation |
Fairly liberal but some good gems in there useful for design work |
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Articles on Animal and Earth Liberation Struggles from “Green Anarchist” |
Zine |
Animal Liberation, Anarchism |
Neat little zine with some decent articles |
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Inside the Cages, Animal liberation & imprisonment June 2013, South London Publishing, Lewis Pogson |
Zine |
Animal Liberation, Repression, Prison |
Short zine about Lewis’s years on in prison and on license and his reflections about the animal advocacy movement as well as the prison system. Very honest & reflective |
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Roots to Power, A manual for grassroots organising. Second edition, Lee Staples. Praeger publishers, Westport CT |
Book |
Community Organising |
Very US orientated to common model of organising, not in radical/anarchist framework but still extremely insightful with useful analysis and observation from years of direct community organising |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence |
Book |
Community Organising |
Essential reading for anyone funding social change |
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Tip sheet No 2 Healthy action groups Lock the Gate Alliance |
Factsheet |
Community organising |
Useful resources from Australians organising against unconventional gas |
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Tip sheet No 3 Adopt action learning in your group Lock the Gate Alliance |
Factsheet |
Community organising |
First reference to action learning I’d seen in organising |
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Tip sheet No1, Creating a town action group, the Lismoremethod, Lock the Gate Alliance |
Factsheet |
Community organising |
Useful resources from Australians organising against unconventional gas |
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Trainers Alliance |
Organisation |
Community organising |
List of courses/training to community groups - interesting to survey to see what others are doing |
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Communicating strategically: Facilitating resistance, Radix |
Powerpoint |
Community Organising |
This presentation informed by peer section |
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Beautiful Trouble |
Website |
Community Organising |
Website full of info on different tactics - some good stuff amongst a lot of liberal content |
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Southwark Organising |
Website |
Community Organising |
Page with recommended reading from community organisers in Southwark |
http://southwarkorganising.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/some-organising-resources-worth-exploring/ |
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Radical Encuentro Camp: Building Sustainable Revolution in Tejas and Beyond By: Renee Feltz Date Published: June 16, 2007 |
Article |
Community Organising, Anarchism |
Interesting article about anarchist community organising |
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Scott Crow: Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective, Scott Crow |
Article |
Community Organising, Anarchism |
Interesting article about anarchist community organising |
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Winds from Below. Radical community organising to make a revolution possible, team colours collective
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Book |
Community organising, Anarchism |
Amazing little text on radical community organising, life-changing little book. Read it! |
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Globalise Liberation How to uproot the system and build a better world Edited by David Solnit 2004 City Light Books, San Francisco |
Book |
Community Organising, Anarchism |
Some total gems within this collection including some on anarchist community organising |
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Sustainable Activism & Avoiding Burnout |
Factsheet |
Community Organising, Self Care |
Useful & important reading |
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The Lifelong Activist: How to change the world without loosing your way by Hillary Rettig |
Book |
Community Organising, Self-Care |
Very american with some uncomfortable attitudes to ‘activism’ but some golden nuggets in there & sensible advice about organising over the long haul |
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Gender & Sexism Lesson |
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Feminsim, Queer, Anti oppression |
Good handout to give to men with sexist behaviour in any group |
014 Gender & Sexism - Lesson 9.pdf |
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Rebuilding the Food Shed, Philip Ackerman-Leist |
Book |
Food Sovereignty |
New book with some interesting examples from US |
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Food Sovereignty: A skeptical view Henry Bernstein |
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Food Sovereignty |
Interesting critique of food sovereignty |
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Agroecology and Politics. How To Get Sustainability? About the Necessity for a Political Agroecology Manuel Gonzalez de Molina a a Department of Geography, History, and Philosophy, University Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain |
Academic article |
Food Sovereignty, Political Agroecology |
Great article about necessity of political agroecology |
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Agroecology: Foundations in Agrarian Social Thought and Sociological Theory Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán a & Graham Woodgate, Institute of Sociology and Peasant Studies, University of Cordoba, Spain, University College London, Institute of the Americas, London, UK |
Academic Article |
Food Sovereignty, Political Agroecology |
Slightly challenging academic speak but useful points |
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Nyelini newsletters |
Link |
Food Soveriegnty |
Useful newsletters with news from peasant struggles around the world |
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Loss, Trauma and Human resilience Have we underestimated the human capacity to thrive after aversive events/? George A Bonanno, Teachers College, Columbia university |
Academic Article |
Healing |
Short academic article about human resilience, quite interesting. |
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Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power & Healing, Caroline Myss |
Book |
Healing |
Accessible book about chakras and the interconnection of emotional, energetic and physical health |
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Defy Gravity, Caroline Myss |
Book |
Healing |
Follow on book from Caroline Myss, not quite as accessible as Anatomy of the Spirit, more pseudo-religious associations |
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My name is chellis…. |
Book |
Healing, Civilisation |
Impactful book about healing & civilisation |
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Permaculture: Principles & Pathways, David Holmgren |
Book |
Permaculture |
Essential text to help understand permaculture principles |
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Conscious Action Management |
Powerpoint |
Personal productivity, Life Design |
Developed by Jennifer English, amazing tool to help you design your life |
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Pedagogy of the oppressed, Paulo Freire |
Book |
Popular Education |
Classic text on popular education, a must read! |
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Penguin Education, Paulo Freire |
Book |
Popular Education |
Pop Ed classic. A must read! |
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How to Design a Training Course, a guide to participatory curriculum development, Peter Taylor |
Book |
Popular Education |
Useful book that informed the design of my liberation permaculture course, bit liberal/community development orientated |
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Equality and diversity in adult and community learning a guide for managers NIACE |
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Popular Education |
Very mainstream but still interesting for popular education/community learning |
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Why we still have a lot to learn, Trapese Collective |
Pdf as part of book |
Popular Education |
Great intro to popular education |
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Food for Thought and Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum |
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Popular Education, Food Sovereignty |
Well designed pack for popular education around food sovereignty. Super useful for any food system educators. |
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Resource |
Format |
Thematic Area |
Commentary |
Link |
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Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Yvonne Davis 2003, Seven Stories Press |
Book | Prison Abolition | Absolute classic, must read | |
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The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race... by Joy James |
Book |
Prison Abolition |
Some very good articles, less accessible than other prison texts but still worth reading |
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Sisters Inside |
Organisation |
Prison abolition |
Australian based group who work from an abolitionist perspective |
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Bristol Anarchist Black Cross |
Organisation |
Prison Abolition |
Local group doing prisoner solidarity work |
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Brighton Anarchist Black Cross |
Organisation |
Prison Abolition |
Active group doing prisoner solidarity work |
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Critical Resistance |
Organisation |
Prison Abolition |
Super active group in US at forefront of prison abolition organising |
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Critical Resistance Toolkit |
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Prison abolition |
Amazing collection of factsheets & other pdfs around prison abolition, with exercises and questions. Well designed materials. |
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The Prison Works. Occasional texts on the roles of prison and prison labour, Joe Black/Bra Bros Published by the Campaign Against Prison Slavery and Brighton Anarchist Black Cross |
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Prison abolition |
Informative texts about prison with an anarchist view point, with a focus on prison labour and privatisation in the UK. |
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Introduction to the Prison Industrial Complex Workshop Created by: The Chicago Prison Industrial Complex Teaching Collective 2011 |
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Prison abolition |
Great resources prepared by this collective who have tweaked over time |
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The Queer, feminist & trans politics of prison abolition |
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Prison abolition |
Incredible toolkit of articles, many with a UK context |
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On The Out |
Zine |
Prison Abolition |
Edited by Bristol ABC about life after prison |
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Thoughts on Prisoner Support, John Bowden, September 2010 & Solidarity without prejudice, Jan 2009 |
Article |
Prison abolition, Anarchism |
Thoughts written by social prisoner John Bowden on prison abolition & anarchist struggle in UK context. Very inspiring and honest. |
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Abolition Now! Ten years of strategy and struggle against the prison industrial complex. The CR10 publications collective |
Book |
Prison abolition, Community Organising |
Short book of different articles around prison abolition, mainly US focused by still very real & inspiring. |
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Resistance Behind Bars, The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, Victoria Law, 2009 |
Book |
Prison Abolition, Feminism |
Very US focused but necessary & moving text about how women resist the prison industrial complex |
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Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex by Julia Sudbury |
Book |
Prison Abolition, Feminism, Race |
Really important reading, international in focus |
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Beyond Walls and Cages. Prisons, borders and global crisis
Edited by Jenna M Lloyd, Matt Mitchelson and Andrew Burridge 2012 |
Book |
Prison abolition, Migrant justice, Community Organising |
Amazing, amazing, amazing book. Essential reading for anyone working around social justice. |
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Unruly Women, The politics of confinement & resistance, Karlene Faith Seven Stories Press, New York, 1993, 2011 |
Book |
Prison, Feminism |
Amazing, readable book on history of women and the prison system, many references to Canada but extremely accessible & informative about women in prison in general, with amazing political commentary and edge |
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Tenacious, Art & writings by women in prison. Issue 21, Fall 2010 & Issue 24, Fall/Winter 2011 |
Zine |
Prison, Feminism |
Short zine publishing writings and thoughts of women incarcerated in the United States. Some moving excerpts of resistance and repression. |
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Bent Bars |
Organisation |
Queer, Prison Abolition |
Group that does solidarity work with queer imprisoned people, based in UK. Regular newsletter. |
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Liberals vs Radicals, April 19th, 2013 Gaia Radio Content Call, with Gaia U Associate Bradford White |
Gaia U Radio Call |
Radical ecology |
Informative call on liberal vs radical worldviews and approaches |
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Healing Ourselves, Anonymous |
Zine |
Radical herbalism, Self care |
Good zine on responsibility/DIY health care |
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8 Forms of Capital, Ethan Roland |
Article |
Regenerative Economics |
Great article about different forms of capital |
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Regenerative enterprise by Ethan Roland & Gregory Landua |
Book |
Regenerative Economics |
Essential reading! |
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“Everything changed after the 26th”: Repression and Resilience against proposed Phulbari Coal Mine in Bangladesh, Samina Luthfa1 |
Academic Article |
Repression |
Interesting in relationship to how repression can ignite further action/resistance |
Qehwps193.pdf |
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How To Spot Frauds and Informants in Political Resistance Movements Dr. Steve Best, July 8, 2013 |
Article |
Repression |
Some useful points |
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The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression of the American Indian Movement during the 1970sBy Ward Churchill |
Article |
Repression |
Necessary reading |
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Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark, Corporate & police spying on activists, Eveline Lubbers |
Book |
Repression |
Interesting book esp. regarding infiltration |
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COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story Compilation by Paul Wolf with contributions from Robert Boyle, Bob Brown, Tom Burghardt, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, Kathleen Cleaver, Bruce Ellison, Cynthia McKinney, Nkechi Taifa, Laura Whitehorn, Nicholas Wilson, and Howard Zinn. |
Book |
Repression |
Important reading to learn from history |
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WAR AT HOME: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It Brian Glick |
Book |
Repression |
Really informative book about repression in the US |
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The Arrest Process and your rights, Activist Legal Project |
Factsheet |
Repression |
Used in my know your rights workshop |
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Network for Police Monitoring |
Organisation |
Repression |
Liberal organisation that monitors police |
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AWL radio, CKMS. Rabble.ca podcast network. Interview with Ward Churchill |
Radio podcast |
Repression |
Good podcast |
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Building resilience to repression |
Workshop Design |
Repression |
The only other resource I found about resilience to repression |
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SHAC A campaign that made history |
Zine |
Repression |
Zine about SHAC, repression & solidarity |
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Letters from Anarchist Prisoners of the “Bombs Case” in Chile |
Zine |
Repression |
Interesting & moving writing |
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Total Liberation, an interview with Walter Bond |
Article |
Repression, Animal Liberation |
Interview with animal liberation prisoner Walter Bond |
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State crackdown on anti corporate dissent: the animal rights movement, Corporate Watch, 2009 |
Report |
Repression, Animal Liberation |
One of the only texts written in solidarity with SHAC trials |
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Episode of the 4 of the Exworker, Crimethinc Radio |
Radio podcast |
Repression, Prison abolition |
Nice call if you prefer auditory learning |
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Radical Research, Designing, developing & writing research to make a difference, John & Jill Schostak |
Book |
Research |
Pretty academic & hard to read but got some useful sections & good references |
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Transition research primer, Transition Network |
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Research |
More accessible little guidebook to undertaking research |
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Resilience Thinking, Brian Walker and David Salt 2006, Island Press, Washington |
Book |
Resilience, Ecology |
Great introduction & digestible text on resilience, summarised key points & lots of examples. |
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How Nonviolence Protects the State, Peter Gelderloos |
Book |
Resistance |
Necessary reading for anyone engaged in social change! |
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Activist Trauma Support |
Organisation |
Self care |
Have a good directory of politically ‘on it’ therapists/services |
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Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements: A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique, and Synthesis, Karl-Dieter Opp |
Book |
Social Movements |
Very academic & quite inaccessible but occasional useful section! |
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Change Agency - Strategy |
Link |
Strategy, Community Organising |
Interesting link explaining strategy with lots of useful pdf links - great for campaign design |
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Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows |
Book |
Systems Thinking |
Excellent intro to systems thinking, very accessible. |