Civics, Social Justice, and Nonviolent Direct Action:
Rebels with Causes

by
Hyung Nam (Wilson HS)
Sylvia McGauley (Reynolds HS)
Julie O’Neill (Lincoln HS)
Chris Buehler (Lincoln HS)
Alex Stegner (Lincoln HS)
Blair Valis Hennessy (Mt. Scott Learning Center)

Bibliography

Manuals on direct action

Click to access RuckusActionStrategyGuide.pdf

Click to access 99%25%20Spring%20Handbook.pdf

Click to access BOOKLET.ussf_.readingorder.pdf

Click to access classofnonviolence12jan.pdf

http://www.storybasedstrategy.org/ http://www.storybasedstrategy.org/tools-and-worksheets.html
http://organizingforpower.org/
http://beautifultrouble.org/all-modules/
http://earthfirstjournal.org/merch/product/earth-first-direct-action-manual-1st-edition/

Click to access classofnonviolencecolmanmccarthy.pdf

Click to access power_and_social_change.pdf

http://www.toolsforchange.net
http://seedsforchange.org.uk/resources
http://www.trainingforchange.org/tools

Click to access How-Nonviolent-Struggle-Works.pdf

http://www.soaw.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=644
https://thedisorderofthings.com/2014/09/09/logistics-capitalist-circulation-chokepoints/

http://beautifultrouble.org/classroomresources/

Click to access BT_StudyGuide_Interactive.pdf

GAME! https://beautifulrising.org/platforms/game

Other resources on social movements, direct action, power, etc.
https://news.littlesis.org/2018/02/20/mapping-the-power-in-2018/
https://news.littlesis.org/2017/12/14/who-rules-america-after-50-years-an-interview-with-professor-g-william-domhoff/
http://depts.washington.edu/moves/index.shtml
http://thisisanuprising.org/category/articles/
http://wagingnonviolence.org/author/markandpaul/
http://depts.washington.edu/moves/
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/
http://watchdisobedience.com/?utm_medium=email

Click to access BeyondTheBus2015.pdf

http://www.handsupunited.org/blog/2015/2/12/activism-meet-the-badass-activist-collective-bringing-direct-action-back-to-black-communities
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/C_CC7e_NonviolenceInAmHist.htm
https://www.popularresistance.org/the-mother-of-non-violent-direct-action-lucy-parsons/
http://inthesetimes.com/article/17440/what_makes_protest_movements_explode
http://www.education4democracy.net/
http://www.everydayrebellion.net/the-project/
http://www.creativeresistance.org/category/poetry/
https://wetheeconomy.com/download-resources/
http://thischangeseverything.org/blog/
http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/
http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/
http://wagingnonviolence.org/

Click to access re.imagining_activism_guide.pdf

https://www.popularresistance.org/the-8-stages-of-successful-social-political-movements/
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/moyermap.html
https://www.popularresistance.org/category/strategize/
http://www.influencemapping.org/projects/

Books
Nonviolence in Theory and Practice
The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace
The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States
We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History

Updates and additional notes

POWER: (“Power” is a relational term. It can only be understood as a relationship between human beings in a specific historical, economic and social setting. It must be exercised to be visible.)
1. Power is control of, or access to, those institutions sanctioned by the state. (Definition by Barbara Major of People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, New Orleans)
2. Power is the ability to define reality and to convince other people that it is their definition. (Definition by Dr. Wade Nobles)
3. Power is ownership and control of the major resources of a state; and the capacity to make and enforce decisions based on this ownership and control; and (Alternative definition to #1)
4. Power is the capacity of a group of people to decide what they want and to act in an
Organized way to get it.
5. (In terms of an individual), power is the capacity to act.