The Ruckus Society

Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) Resources: Internet

www.ruckus.org

Our intention with this document was to collect and share on-line resources for NVDA. The list is by no
means complete. The experience and perspective reflected in these web sites is often from a primarily
white, straight, middle-class orientation. However, strategic and tactical direct action information for people
of color, women, trans/queer/bi/gay/lesbians, working class and others can be extrapolated and applied in
some cases. The bottom line: some resources may be less relevant to your constituency and require
reframing. For that, we apologize. Please send us links that we should add! Also, please note that there is
significant overlap between the categories. Finally, several links require free, downloadable software called
Adobe Acrobat Reader: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

SF BAY AREA CONTACTS

http://www.ActAgainstWar.org Direct Action To Stop The War
http://www.actagainstwar.org/article.php?list=type&type=17
http://www.bapd.org/keys.html & http://www.bapd.org/dir.html S.F. Bay Area Progressive Directory
http://www.peacepledge.org/resist for groups in your area who are organizing civil disobedience

CALENDAR OF EVENTS: DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL

http://www.protest.net/

TIMELINE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE HISTORY

www.salsa.net/peace/timeline/thisday.html (16 pages) or one copy of the same timeline in Excel spreadsheet
format www.salsa.net/peace/timeline/thisdayinhistory.xls (32 pages)

NONVIOLENCE
http://ruckus.org/man/index.html This site has training manuals for action planning, media, climbing, scouting,
video taping, and hanging from a billboard. The orientation is small Greenpeace-style actions.
http://www.san.beck.org/NAH1-Nonviolence.html Sam Becks NVDA Resources
http://www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/CDindex.html Act Up! New Yorks C.D. Manual
http://www.members.tripod.com/nviusa/biblio.htm Nonviolence International
www.rantcollective.org Hit "Resources" Root Activist Network of Trainers (RANT)
http://www.rantcollective.org/article.php?list=types&type=17
http://www.vernalproject.org/RPapers.shtml Papers on Nonviolent Action and Cooperative Decision-Making:
This website has a wealth of information, including very detailed agendas. Most of the material was developed
in the 1980s, and needs updating in response to current situations.
http://www.transnational.org/links/nonviolence.html Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research
http://www.nowar.no/peaceacademy/causesofwar9.html Peace Academy
http://www.aeinstein.org/pubs_index.html Albert Einstein Institution (Gene Sharp)
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/peace.html publications on peace, war & nonviolence

AFFINITY GROUPS
http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/act_ags.html Stop the FTAAs Affinity Group Info and Resources
http://www.freedomrising.org/affinity_groups/index.html Freedom Rising's Affinity Group Resources
http://www.directdemocracynow.org/ags.html Direct Democracy Now!
http://www.radio4all.org/anarchy/organize.html Anarchism in Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, & Ideas
http://www.d2kla.org/dan_affinty.html Rise Up/Direct Action Network LA
http://www.anarco-nyc.net/collective.html NYC anarchists
CONSENSUS DECISION MAKING for NVDA
http://www.consensus.net/ Conflict and Consensus: a handbook on Formal Consensus Decision-making by
C.T. Bulter and Amy Rothstein http://consensus.net/ocaccontents.html
http://www.ic.org/pnp/ocac/ Information on consensus.
http://www.managingwholes.com/consensus.htm articles on consensus building.

MEDIA FOR NVDA

http://www.ruckus.org/man/media_manual.html The Ruckus Societys Media Manual
http://www.spinproject.org/resources/mainframe.php3 The Spin Projects Resources
http://www.videonetwork.org/media.html or http://www2.phreak.co.uk/tlio/pubs/agm2.html
An activist guide to exploiting the Media by George Monbiot
http://www.ran.org/action/toolbox/ Rainforest Action Networks toolbox
http://www.videoactivism.org/med_strad.html Media Strategies for Activists
http://www.fair.org/activism/activismkit.html FAIRs Media Activism Kit
http://www.newstips.org/writerhelp.htm Writing Press Releases
http://electronicintifada.net/foractivists/introduction.shtml Electronic Intifada
http://www.ssc.org/trainings/ftaamedia.pdf Sierra Student Coalitions FTAA Media Manual
http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/act_media.html Stop the FTAA Activist Resources Media Tools
How to Tell and Sell Your Story: A Guide to Media for Community Groups and other Nonprofits
We Interrupt This ProgramA Citizens Guide To Using the Media for Social Change
by Robbie Gordon, Citizens Involvement Training Program in Amherst, MA.

ORGANIZING/STRATEGIC CAMPAIGNING
http://www.ibiblio.org/netchange/cco/ Organizing Guide for Peace and Justice Groups
http://publicachievement.org/5_2_3_pwrmap.html http://publicachievement.org/5_2_tools.html
http://www.ulaverne.edu/lead/pdf/r10.pdf Understanding Who Holds Power
http://www.ivaltd.com/Pmap.doc Organizational Power Mapping
http://www.trainingforchange.org/strategy/index.html Training for Change/George Lakey
http://www.ngltf.org/library/campus.htm Gay & Lesbian Task Force Campus Organizing Manual
http://www.hud.gov/community/orcomm.html Industrial Areas Foundation
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/ Lots of resources for building community.
http://www.grassroots-advocacy.com/gate.html Grassroots Advocacy Training Exchange
http://www.clcr.org/DvlModOrg.pdf The Development Model of Organizing
http://www.highlandercenter.org/resources.asp Highlander Research & Education Center
http://www.actionpa.org/ Activists' Center for Training In Organizing and Networking
http://www.actionpa.org/activism/ Activism Training Materials and Resources
http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/ Community Toolbox
http://www.readwriteact.org/activism.html SCALEs Advocacy and Activism site
http://www.midwestacademy.com/ Midwest Academy
http://www.ctwo.org/ Center for Third World Organizing: 510-533-7583.
www.noacentral.org National Organizers Alliance, 202-543-6603
http://www.thedartcenter.org Direct Action and Research Training Center, Inc.
http://www.kwru.org/educat/orgmod2.html Kensington Welfare Rights Unions Willie Baptist
http://www.freedomrising.org/direct_democracy/dd_cindy2.html Article on strategy
http://causenet.commoncause.org/afr/issues/basics/?style=comm Common Cause on lobbying
Organizing for Social Change by Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, and Steve Max. $18-20.
Midwest Academy-style strategy and organizing skills. A great resource. The organizers bible.
Enough Is Enough: The Hellraisers Guide to Community Activism by Diane Maceachern.
Step-by-step instructions on how individuals can launch an effective citizens campaign at the grassroots level.
Organize!, How People Get Power, and Organizing: A Guide For Grassroots Leaders, both by Si Kahn
(McGraw Hill) Fantastic step-by-step organizing lessons.
Campus Organizing Guide For Peace and Justice Groups: Center for Campus Organizing
http://www.empowermentresources.com/books/ Look under Political Empowerment, Organizing
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/ACTIVIST/actbooks.htm Organizing Books

SCOUTING FOR NVDA

http://www.ruckus.org/man/index.html The Ruckus Societys contribution to the art of scouting.
http://www.pressurepoint.org/pp_direct_action_tools.html Pressure Point

CREATIVE ACTION: POLITICAL THEATRE, ART & PUPPETS

http://www.spiralq.org/ Spiral Q Puppet Theater

http://www.gis.net/~puppetco/index.html The Puppeteers' Cooperative Home Page
http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/building/index.html Puppet Building and Building Materials
http://www.zeitgeist.net/wfca/handbook.html Wise Fool Basics Puppet Handbook
http://www.progressiveaustin.org/chants.htm Progressive Austins chants and slogans
http://www.artandrevolution.org/ Art and Revolution
The Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy, from United for a Fair Economy

COMMUNICATIONS (COMMS) & TECH FOR NVDA

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/longwire/activist_electronics_0303.html Excellent.
http://www.prometheusradio.org/ Prometheus Radio Project
http://www.organizenow.net/ Organizers Collaborative

VIDEO AND STILL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR NVDA

http://www.videoactivism.org/cameratips.html Camera Tips
http://www.videoactivism.org/resource.html The Video Activist Network

BLOCKADES AND OCCUPATIONS

http://www.a16.org/feature.cfm?ID=11 Affidavit describing construction of lock boxes.
http://www.warresisters.org/nva0100-3.htm Description of human blockades at WTO
http://www.geneticsaction.org.uk/delia.pdf Delia Smiths Basic Blockading
http://headwaters-ef.enviroweb.org/actions/tactics/blockades.html Headwaters Forest EF! blockades

TACTICS
http://headwaters-ef.enviroweb.org/actions/tactics/rallies.html Headwaters Forest Earth First!
http://headwaters-ef.enviroweb.org/actions/tactics/backwoods.html Headwaters Forest Earth First!
http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/efj/primer/DA.html Direct Action Primer
http://www.infoshop.org/directaction.html Direct Action Guide
http://www.radio4all.org/anarchy/rant3.html Direct Action by Nemesis
www.salsa.net/peace/genesharp.html (6 pgs) Gene Sharp's list of 198 nonviolent methods (tactics)
www.salsa.net/peace/sharp.pdf 3 page Adobe Acrobat Gene Sharp's list of 198 nonviolent methods
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/12/24/6308041 Protest Tools
http://www.geocities.com/zapatistablock/resources.htm Zapatista Block
http://www.creativeresistance.ca/toolkit/toolkit-non-violent-action.htm Creative Resistance
http://www.riseup.net/n30/actionideas.html
http://www.earthfuture.com/stopthewar/

POLICE TACTICS
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/090700-01.htm
http://www.pwpl.com/security/
http://www.ci.eugene.or.us/PoliceComm/CrowdControl.htm City of Eugene, OR crowd control
http://www.jus.state.nc.us/NCJA/crowdmgm.pdf Crowd Management Handbook North Carolina
http://www.tcleose.state.tx.us/GuideInst/PDF/1000/31cro.pdf Crowd Management Texas
http://lois.vic.uh.edu/Reserve/Williamson/Crowd%20Management.htm
http://other.corneliuspd.org/Departments/BLET/BLET7_files/frame.htm
http://www.federallaboratories.com/cm/aerosols.asp
http://www.ipmba.org/newsletter-0211-lapd.htm International Police Mountain Bike Association
http://www.ipmba.org/newsletter-0211-crowds.htm Mountain Bike Crowd Control
http://mai.flora.org/forum/27357 The health impact of crowd-control agents
http://www.lawandordermag.com/ Law and Order Magazine
http://www.tpub.com/maa/97.htm
http://neds.nebt.daps.mil/Directives/5585/nine.pdf
http://www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/mlaw1.html Martial Law Crowd Control
https://www.advancement.cnet.navy.mil/products/web-pdf/tramans/bookchunks/14137_ch9.pdf

LEGAL FOR NVDA

http://www.lawcollective.org/handbooks/activist/html/intro.html The Just Cause Law Collective
http://www.publiceye.org/eyes/comsense.html
Common Sense Security by Sheila O'Donnell
http://publiceye.com "If an Agent Knocks: Federal Investigators and Your Rights," Center for Constitutional
Rights
http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/Feds/If_an_Agent_Knocks.htm
http://www.shacusa.net/resources_security.htm.
http://www.nlg.org/resources/resources.htm National Lawyers Guild
http://www.videoactivism.org/onlook.html SFPDs Rights on Onlookers
http://www.videoactivism.org/legal.html Legal resources
http://www.d2kla.org/dan_legal.html D2K Los Angeles legal
http://www.midnightspecial.net/Materials.htm Midnight Special Law Collective
http://www.legalsolidarity.org/ Legal Solidarity
http://www.justiceandsolidarity.org/ Justice and Solidarity
http://www.lowensteinlaw.com/resources.html Lowenstein Law
http://www.davidwool.com/crimfaq.html David Wool and Associates
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/ethics/nuremberg/nurembergprinciples.html Citizens have an obligation in
accordance with the Nuremberg Principles not to cooperate with the illegal actions of our government. \
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/ethics/nuremberg/nurembergprinciples.html The Nuremberg Principles
http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm http://www.deoxy.org/wc/wc-index.htm
http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/sheriff/jailinfo.htm SF Sheriff's Office
http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/police/ SFPD http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/police/bureaus/mnusub20.htm station map
Her Wits About Her: Self Defense Success Stories by Women by Caignon, Denise and Gail Groves. Agents of
Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. by
Churchill, Ward and Jim Vander Wall. Boston: South End Press, 1988.
The Age of Surveillance. Donner, Frank J. New York: Random House, 1981.
Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement. Gelbspan,
Ross. Boston: South End Press, 1991.
War at Home: Covert Action Against US Activists and What We can Do About It. Glick, Brian.

GROUNDING AND CENTERING (SELF-PURIFICATION)

http://www.starhawk.org/activism/trainer-resources/groundcenter.html

MEDICAL, FIRST AID and STREET SAFETY for NVDA

http://www.bostoncoop.net/balm/ Boston Area Liberation Medic (BALM) Squad
http://www.starhawk.org/activism/trainer-resources/teargas.html
http://www.starhawk.org/activism/trainer-resources/traumaovervw.html
http://www.d2kla.org/dan_bring.html
http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/
http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/act_medical.html
http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/act_teargas.html
http://zena.secureforum.com/ontheground/action-medical/northeast/ NE Action Medics Association
http://www.blackcrosscollective.org/ First Aid for Radicals and Activists: Fight the power, do no harm.
Downloadable handbooks on street medic preparation, good info on chemical weapons.
http://www.devo.com/sarin/shieldbook.pdf
Handbook on shields and self-defense.
http://free.freespeech.org/yabasta/protection.html Information on shields and other forms of barrier
protections.
http://www.radio4all.org/aia/
Anarchism In Action: Methods, Tactics, Skills, and Ideas. Complied and Edited by Shawn Ewald
This is a book of internet links to anarchist organizing methods, direct action, protest, and long term
projects.

ANTI-OPPRESSION RESOURCES
www.tao.ca/~colours http://www.tao.ca/~colours/org.html Colors of Resistance
http://www.toolsforchange.org/ http://toolsforchange.org/resources/
http://www.illegalvoices.org/apoc/heat/index.html Anarchist People of Color Tools
http://racetraitor.org/ Race Traitor
http://www.paulkivel.com/Workshops.htm Paul Kivels Uprooting Racism Workshops
http://www.stopftaa.org/activist/act_opres.html Stop FTAAs anti-oppression resources
http://www.positive.org/Resources/internet.html Positive???
http://www.organizedresistance.org/antioppression.html National Conference on Organized Resistance.

NVDA TRAINING RESOURCES

http://www.trainingforchange.org/tools/index.html Training for Change/ George Lakey
http://www.deltanetwork.org/skills/orglinks.htm Delta Enterprise Network
http://www.starhawk.org/activism/trainer-resources/trainer-resources.html Tons of great stuff.
http://www.salsa.net/peace/teach/teach2.html NVDA History and 198 Tactics exercise
http://www.salsa.net/peace/teach/teachers.html Peace Tools for Teachers
http://www.forusa.org/Programs/NVTraining/NVTrainers.html Database of NVDA Trainers
http://www.forusa.org/Programs/NVTraining/NV.html
http://www.managingwholes.com/conflict1.htm Different.
http://www.trainingforchange.org/tools.html This training organization, led by George Lakey, has descriptions
of exercises to be used during trainings.

GRAPHICS: free and cheap

http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/toolbox.php US Labor Against the War
http://www.warresisters.org/demo_flyers.htm
http://www.progressiveaustin.org/graphics.htm http://www.progressiveaustin.org/flags.htm
http://www.designaction.org/morelinks.html
http://whitehouse.org/initiatives/posters/index.asp
http://www.fcnl.org/iraq_bumstker_info.php Friends (Quaker) Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
offers a free bumper sticker that says "War Is Not the Answer." FREE.
http://www.anotherposterforpeace.com. Free, downloadable poster with a graphic of a bomb in a shopping
bag with a US flag on the side that says, "Don't Buy It: War Is Not the Answer." FREE.
http://www.northlandposter.com/cgi-bin/Web_store/web_store.cgi?mt=&page=justicepeace Northland Poster
Collective's free poster has the word "War" with a "no" slash through it and says above and below: "Unity
Against Racism, Justice through Peace". FREE.
http://www.peacecouncil.net/images/Dove-Grief.pdf The Syracuse Peace Council offers a free poster to
download, print, and display. It says "Revenge Will Not Heal Our Grief" with a graphic of a peace dove.
FREE.
http://www.progressivecatalog.com or http://www.donnellycolt.com Donnelly-Colt (run by two activists
associated with War Resisters League) offers a wide variety of t-shirts, bumperstickers, buttons, and posters --
union-made where possible.
http://www.syrculturalworkers.org/index2.html Syracuse Cultural Workers offers a wide variety of t-shirts,
bumperstickers, and buttons.
http://www.northernsun.com Northern Sun has a wide variety of t-shirts, bumperstickers, buttons, etc.
http://www.progressiveportal.org/resources Progressive Portal
http://starhawk.org/activism/activism-resources.html On Starhawks web page you'll find resources for
nonviolent direct action and anti-oppression trainers/preparers and magical activism workshop facilitators.
You'll find sample agendas, exercises, wall charts, handouts, and notes on how trainings went.

MEGAPHONES AND SOUND SYSTEMS

http://www.federalsignal-indust.com/CutSheets/A15EL.pdf
http://www.federalsignal-indust.com/InstSheets/A15EL.PDF
http://domino.fedsig.com/web/FedSig/FedSigDocCent.nsf/632915a8d4e70571862568280077dd29/a27ce140d
3e946b1862565c1005c48c5/$FILE/9102.pdf
http://www.fedsig.com/police/On-
line_Catalog/Essential_Accessories/Portable_Loud_Speakers/A15_Megaphone/a15_megaphone.html
http://www.officeworld.com/Worlds-Biggest-Selection/bullhorn?src=gogl
http://www.emprep.com/megaphone.html
http://www.gadgetbabe.com/showpage.asp?itemid=15584&source=gogl
http://www.audiosoundselectronics.com/products/megaphones.htm
http://www.audiosoundselectronics.com/specpages/specs_er-66ws.htm
http://www.audiosoundselectronics.com/specpages/specs_er-332.htm
http://www.audiosoundselectronics.com/specpages/specs_er-57s.htm
http://www.audiosoundselectronics.com/specpages/specs_er-68ws.htm
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/swps/inmegbul.html
http://www.lindequipment.net/megaphon.htm
http://www.toa.de/en/PA/903651034998252457.html
http://www.surprise.com/whositfor/kids_coach/megaphone.cfm
http://www.onlinesports.com/pages/I,CS-MP6W.html
http://www.onlinesports.com/pages/I,CS-MP8W.html
http://www.onlinesports.com/pages/I,CS-MP16W.html
http://www.dealtime.com
http://www.cctvbydesign.com/megaphones.html
http://www.costcrunch.com/megaphones.html
http://www.shopcousinsvideo.com/calpa115watm.html