Tag: tactics
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Escalate Strategically (Beautiful Trouble – Essay 1)
There is a tendency within highly cohesive political groups to want to turn up the heat. It seems to be written into the social DNA of oppositional political groups: when group members’ level of commitment increases, they want to go further. They want to be a little more hardcore. This tendency toward escalation and increased…
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Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution – Party Tonight
It’s out! And there’s a party tonight (April 5th)! After months of sweat and tears, Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution has hit the shelves! Huge props to Andrew Boyd for herding about 70 cats into writing a whole lot of short, outstanding essays about activism, organizing, creative action, and social change. Beautiful Trouble is…
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Help Us Make Beautiful Trouble
There’s some beautiful trouble brewing, and Beyond the Choir has got caught up in it. We’re part of an exciting collaboration called Beautiful Trouble. It’s a collaboratively-written (and collaboratively funded!) guide for trouble makers. Check out the new video about the project:
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The Tactic Star (a tool for planning and evaluating tactics)
The “tactic star” is a tool we developed a few years ago. We wanted to repost it here on the new site. Click here to download it as a worksheet (PDF). Choosing or inventing a successful tactic often involves some intuition and guesswork — and always risk. But the more we study our contexts, the…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 