5.01. organizing models and how-tos

How Effective is Personal Storytelling?: Strategic Insights from Social Movement Theory

Fannie Lou Hamer, photo: Warren K. Leffler, US News & world report, now in the Library of Congress
Authors: Betsy Leondar-Wright

Summary:

By Betsy Leondar-Wright reviewing Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life and It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics.

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Repression at the Republican Convention: The Criminalization of Dissent

Anti-war demonstration in St. Paul, MN, September 4, 2008. photo: Zoe Prinds-Flash
Authors: Tom Good

Summary:

The Republican Party Host Committee bribed St. Paul to violate protesters' rights. The city, and Homeland Security, complied.

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Rethinking Leadership: Ella Baker as Role-Model

Freedom Cannot Resist cover
Authors: Gabriel Sayegh Kim Fyke

Summary:

Good leadership creates opportunities for others to expand their potential to become leaders themselves.

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Principles for Feminist Leadership: Struggling to Share Power

Authors: Michelle Williams

Summary:

When we become so afraid of conflict that we stop challenging, we take power away from our organization.

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The Tyranny of Tyranny

Homeless women at St. Patrick's shelter in Somerville MA protest against Catholic Charities cancelling onsite HIV/AIDS education programs and access to condoms, as well as the firing of the program director, Gayle Basten, November 16, 1991. Photo: © Ellen
Authors: Cathy Levine

Summary:

Small groups aren't the problem. They're the solution.

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The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Code Pink activists spell out "Make Out Not War" at the Democratic National Convention. Aerial photo: © John Quigley
Authors: Jo Freeman

Summary:

Structurelessness is a way of masking power, usually most strongly advocated by the most powerful.

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Anti-TortureActivists Convicted: Guantánamo Prison Put On Trial

The thirty five defendants stand in front of Superior Court, Photo: Bill Ofenlach, www.witnesstorture.org
Authors: Frida Berrigan

Summary:

We have a right to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and Guantánamo Bay prison is beyond grievous.

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The Burmese Cyclone, Nonviolent Action, and the Responsibility to Empower

Pushing the relief truck out of the mud, photo: Beyond Rangoon Project, May 17, 2008
Authors: Patrick Meier

Summary:

It is not acceptable to let regimes like Burma's dictate the rules of humanitarian intervention.

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Stop the Killing: Arab Activists Call for Ending the Death Penalty in Arab Countries

Egyptian labor bloggers Hossam el-Hamalawy and Kareem el-Beheiry. Kareem was jailed from April to early June 2008 after promoting and covering an April 6 general strike (partially organized via Facebook!) and ongoing independent labor union activism cente
Authors: Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Summary:

Sharia'a law insists that room be left for forgiveness and reconciliation.

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Diversity is the Revolution: The Tharwa Manifesto for Nonviolent Change in the Middle East

Families of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Egyptian men who disappeared into Syrian prisons during the Lebanese civil war staged a sit-in protest in front of the UN House in Beirut for more than a year. photo: E. Zarwan,June 27, 2006
Authors: Ammar Abdulhamid

Summary:

We approach our struggle in the spirit of hope, love, and magnanimity.

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