- RYSE Youth Zine — RAN Activism For the Next Generation (pdf, 2.6MB)
- Pressure Drop Primer — Inro to Campus Organizing with RAN (pdf, 3.0MB)
- Pressure Drop Part II — Campus Organizing, All the Details (pdf, 307k)
- Pounce — The Community RAN Chapter Start-Up Kit (pdf, 705k)
Activists
Activist resources
Step-by-step guides to starting a RYSE or RAN chapter
Activist resources links
- The Ruckus Society’s Training Manuals — Action training for activists
- National Lawyers Guild — Legal info for protesters
- Midnight Special Law Collective — Legal training and support for activists
- The Spin Project — Media guides for activists
- CampusActivism — Database of student activists, groups, events, and resources
- Campus Climate Challenge — Media and organizing tool kits for student activists
Activist Tools
- Media
- An Introduction (pdf, 49k)
- What Is News? (pdf, 78k)
- Holding a media event (pdf, 77k)
- Pitching Tips (pdf, 116k)
- Interview Tips (pdf, 329k)
- How to Write Media Advisories and Press Releases (pdf, 98k)
- How to Write a Letter to the Editor (pdf, 78k)
- Sample Op-Ed (Opinion piece) (pdf, 80k)
- Sample Press Release (pdf, 237k)
- Outreach
- Intro to Outreach (pdf, 47k)
- How to Recruit Activists at an Event (Tabling) (pdf, 97k)
- Petitioning and Canvassing (pdf, 78k)
- Postering, Flyering and Stickering (pdf, 76k)
- RAN Guide to Making Posters (doc, 3.7MB)
- RAN one-liners (or, How to Talk About RAN) (pdf, 74k)
- RAN FAQ (pdf, 76k)
- Fundraising
- Fundraising 101 (pdf, 179k)
- How to Throw a House Party (pdf, 133k)
- How to Get Stuff Donated (pdf 108k)
- How to Coordinate a Raffle or Silent Auction (pdf 116k)
- Doing a Friends and Family Mailing with Sample letter (pdf, 90k)
- Fundraising Practice Scenarios (pdf, 68k)
- Nonviolent Direct Action
- Introduction to Nonviolent Direct Action (pdf, 93k)
- Get Some Action: Taking our place in the history of US socialmovements (pdf, 1.5MB)
- Shelter Under the Anti-War Umbrella – an article by activist David Solnit (pdf, 143k)
- Campaign Strategy and Planning
- How to Pass a Local Resolution
- Organizing
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