B.4 Movement best practices
Summary
Reading on nonviolent organizing, recruitment, participation, and movement development.
B.4.1 Nonviolent organizing
- Blueprint for Revolution, by Srđa Popović: examples and ideas for nonviolent organizing.
- Common Sense for the 21st Century, by Roger Hallam: an argument for mass civil disobedience.
- How to Start a Revolution in 2026, by Roger Hallam: a contemporary framework for building political power through organizing, mobilization, structure, and institutional change.
- How to Topple a Dictator, by Srđa Popović (video): a practical introduction to nonviolent movements: broad participation, strategic wins, humor, and understanding where power comes from.
B.4.2 Recruitment, participation, and movement development
- Movement Action Plan: a framework used in Fellowship discussions about movement development.
- Spectrum of Allies: a way to think about people's different relationships to a cause.
- Rules for Revolutionaries, by Becky Bond and Zack Exley: the "Big Organizing" model, which scales by giving volunteers real responsibility rather than centralizing everything in professional staff.
For training resources, see Training organizers.
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