Tools come in many forms. Some are food for thought, paths to a change in perspective. Tools can be an outline. Some tools have been developed using careful consideration to those who would use them and for the purpose they are intended.
The growing list of tools on this page are ones that I have been introduced to by experienced Organizers.
The tools of Civil Society include expertise, research and historical data, media devices, sign and poster making, duplicators, megaphones.
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FACILITATION |
Publications | NON PROFIT MANAGEMENT | Publications |
| Group Process | Basic Agreements | Knowledge Base | |
| Non Profit help | Free management library | ||
| ONLINE PUBLICATIONS | |||
| MEDIA | URL Links | Articles & Writers | Idealist |
| Radio Zapatista | |||
| Relatos Zapatistas | |||
| SoundPrint | |||
| Salt cast | ARTICLES, PRESENTATIONS | ||
| Internet networking | Working Wikily | ||
| Class | Class Composition by Kolinko | ||
| Social Capital | |||
| Public Space | |||
| Tyranny of Structurelessness | |||
| Neoliberal Social Capital | |||
| Neoliberalism | Neoliberal Economic Capital | ||
| Regenerating Community | |||
| From Clients to Citizens | |||
| Social Capital | |||
| Autonomy Today | Meaning of Autonomy Today by Beradi | ||
| Zapatismo Urbano by John Holloway | |||
| Autonomy | Struggle for Autonomy by Gustavo Esteva | ||
| Inrro to Collectivo Situaciones by Holdren | |||
| The Meaning and Scope for Autonomy of the Struggle by Gustavo Esteva, Translated by Carlos Perez | |||
| Movements | Meaning of Antisystemic Movements by Gustavo Esteva | ||
| The University | Researching your campus | ||
| ONLINE TOOLS | |||
| Boxnet | Race | Reading Hurrican Katrina by Henry Giroux | |
| Cognitive Mapping | CMAP | Letter from the Birgminham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Research | |
| Data Management | CiviCRM | WEB Dubois | |
| Jstor | |||
| Findlaw | |||
Facilitation Stategies
- Shared leadership / Facilitation
- White board, butcher paper, report backs, go rounds, agendas
- Listening
- Exercises
- Basic Agreements
- Relations of Forces
Parallel Methodologies
I also need to acknowledge and thank the following resource people for continuing to guide me on this path.
Resource People
- Manolo Callahan, Mitote Digital
- James Braggs, Mitote Digital
- Tyler Fister, Relatos Zapatistas, Accion Zapatista de Humboldt
- Jessica Diaz Relatos Zapatistas
- Joseph Orozco, KIDE Radio FM 91.3
- Rhoby Cook, Klamath Trinity Conservation District
- Margo McBane, Guerra and McBane
- Susan Doniger, California State Parks
- Suzanne Guerra, Guerra and McBane
- Fernando Paz, PARA
- Ray Thompson, Redwood Curtain Copwatch
- Squiggy Elvira Hale, Chapter Three
- Andy Alm, Outer Arcata
- Verbena
- Victor Espinosa
- Other teachers; Marrianna Nava, Karen Green, Lois,
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