Table of Contents
Table of Contents 1
Guide to the Guide 4
What is the Goal of this Guide? 4
A Few Final Comments 7
Framing and the Election Process 8
The Lead Up 9
Election Day 10
Count Every Vote 11
False Declaration of Victory 13
Assessing and Responding to Risk: Armed Militias and Digital Security 16
Striking a balance 16
Quick and Dirty Principles for Physical Security 17
Digital Risk: Internal communication and security 18
Quick and Dirty Principles for Organizing Security 18
Useful Digital Security Technologies 19
Thinking Strategically: Framework for Broad and Sustained Disruptive Action 20
Spheres of Influence 20
Building Blocks of Movement Organizing 22
Power Mapping 22
Physical Mapping 22
Points of Intervention 23
Identifying Allies 23
Audience, Messaging, Framing, and Effectiveness 23
Action Logic and Building Capacity 23
Action Preparation Basics 25
Build Support Structures 25
General Advice on Being in the Streets 29
Organizing to Prevent a Coup 31
Getting Into Formation: Building a “Shut-Down Table” 31
Research 31
Building the Table 32
The Basic Principles of Organizing an Action Council 33
Tactics 35
Recruitment 35
Keeping Track of People 36
Putting Out/Responding to a Call to Mobilize 37
Other Groups Organizing National Action 37
When Institutions Break Down 38
Resources 39
Guide to the Guide
Throughout U.S. history, national politics has moved back and forth between conservative and liberal poles. Nixon, Reagan, and Bush followed the civil rights movement; Trump followed Obama. Conservative backlash follows liberal “progress.” But neither pole has fully fulfilled the cries for justice amongst black, poor, indigenous, queer, trans, and marginalized peoples. Things seem to change, but in the end, so much remains the same.
This year, however, seems to be a flashpoint. We are at a moment in which many people have become so tired of the status quo that they have mobilized in the name of justice. From antiblack violence to pandemics, from environmental devastation to indigenous and queer and trans erasure, we’ve seen people stand up against injustice that affects all of us.
We want to lift up the reality that by working together we can make change happen. We offer this guide as a resource to help with your efforts.
This guide can be used beyond the election, offering resources from a broader movement mindset that are not just for this moment.
What is the Goal of this Guide?
This guide offers a framing and organizational approach to respond to our current electoral moment. We live under a president who is energized by the forces of white supremacy and brutal capitalism. He is empowered to use the state’s resources to repress dissent. And he is encouraged and emboldened by a mass of people who share his interests. We believe the 2020 election will be a flashpoint, and we must be ready.
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