A guide to understanding power and organizing movements
- Achieving Literacy
- Choosing a Cause
- Picking a Movement Structure
- How to Induct Members
- How to Arrive at Consensus
- How to Organize and Mobilize People
- How to Protect Members and Be Defensible
- How and When to Act
- How to Measure Impact
- How to Grow, Scale, and Expand
- Co-exiting With Other Organizations
This section (or its subsections, e.g. Rhetoric) should likely include a list of seminal introductory overview books which are relevant irrespective of the cause and movement. For instance, Aristotle’s Rhetoric:
- Game Theory - Modeling and predicting outcomes
- Power - Recognizing it, understanding who has it, it’s limits, incentives, leverage, and tactics for achieving and controlling it
- Rhetoric - Decomposing arguments and recognizing fallacy
Deciding what you are, and are not
- Types of Movements
- Case studies
- Which movements have worked (under what circumstances)
- Fight for $15
- Which movements have failed (under what circumstances)
- Which movements have worked (under what circumstances)
- What roles are needed in a movement
- Criteria for joining
- What should people believe
- What commitment should people make
- What rules are members expected to follow
- How to reconcile ideological differences
- At time of induction via process?
- “Firing” soon and often?
- Process for dispute resolution?
How to move the general populus (non-members) towards action
- Know your rights, study the law and industry regulation
- Designing a campaign
- Coordinating with other groups and getting buy-in