Review
previous electronic activism
campaigns and home pages
Community
building Turn
off your TV. Leave your house. Know your neighbours. Look up when
you’re walking. Greet people. Plant flowers. Plant trees.
Use your library. Buy from local vendors. Share what you have. Help
a lost dog. Support your suburb’s schools. Fix it even if
you didn’t break it. Pick up litter. Talk to the postman.
Get to know the people who remove your rubbish. Listen to the birds.
Help carry something heavy. Give lifts. Ask a question. Hire young
people from your suburb for odd jobs. Ask for help when you need
it. Look out for each other. Share your skills. Drive slowly and
respectfully. Turn up the music. Turn down the music. Listen before
you react to anger. Mediate a conflict. Seek to understand. Learn
from new and uncomfortable angles. Know that no one is silent though
many are unheard: work to change this.
Source: From
ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era
of Globalisation
Other
resources
Just
Add Consciousness: A Guide to Social Activism provides some
basic strategies for activism. Before using any of these strategies,
be sure that your group/organization has already done some groundwork,
including:
- researching
and educating yourselves on the issue;
- identifying
key people and institutions you are aiming to influence;
- setting clear,
focused, and realistic goals and objectives; and
- creating
strategic alliances.
For help with
these initial stages, check out Alliance
for Justice's training and action group Co/Motion.
Once you decide
which activist strategies you will use to realize your goals, evaluate
your progress as you proceed. Continuous evaluation will allow you
to be more open to changing your strategies if you realize they
are not working.
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