The Biggest Gap on the Left: Cultural Organizing | Deep Dive
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Education
Learn about the world through this growing collection of eye-opening lectures, podcasts, articles, books, and more that you won't find in school.
Librivox
A free audiobook library of books in the public domain.
How a Football Team Helped Take Down Brazil's Dictatorship | Activist History
How a small football club in Brazil became a vehicle for political organizing that helped bring back democracy to Brazil.
The 6 Ways Our Morals are Manipulated
Moral Disengagement is a theory articulated by the psychologist Albert Bandura to explain how otherwise normal people can be convinced
Why Neurodiversity is Humanity’s Secret Weapon | Deep Dive
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How Mad Pride Turned Stigma into Solidarity | Activist History
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Foundations & Futures
The most comprehensive collection of Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and perspectives available for free and online for high
The Ultimate Guide to Traveling Without Money
A comprehensive guide by Shareable.net for moneyless travelers on how to find transportation, food, and shelter, and the philosophy
Activist Burnout Guide
A guide by the Activist Handbook and the Federation of Young European Greens on how to navigate burnout as an
The Best Propaganda is Entertaining AF | Deep Dive
How the entertainment industry became the government’s best friend
How Independent Media Became Revolutionary Infrastructure During the Arab Spring | Activist History
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Offline Kids
A cute collection of screen-free activity ideas for kids, organized by age, location and messiness level – started by a
Open Culture
A free educational resource library by Open Culture that centralizes and curates thousands of high-quality free educational and cultural
How it Wears
A really well executed reference library that covers 100+ textile fibres (cotton, polyester, linen, merino and many more) explaining how
European Tech Map
A handy directory of 1400+ European software companies across 80+ categories, for anyone looking to reduce their dependence on US
How Veterans Brought the Iraq War Home | Activist History
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The Project for the Next American Century | Deep Dive
How the US is using military force, financial control, and foreign intervention to cling onto global power in a world that's moving on.
Palestine List
A massive collection of books, films, video, and more educational resources to learn (and unlearn) critical information about Palestine'
Digital Security for Protestors & Organizers Guide
A comprehensive guide for protestors, organizers, and other activists to protect our data from prying eyes before, during, and after
Digital Security While Traveling Guide
A guide on how to protect your data when you are traveling internationally and crossing borders.
PrivacyGuides.org
Privacy Guides is an impartial, non-profit organization that is focused on building a strong privacy advocacy community and delivering
The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin
The foundational work from Murray Bookchin, the social theorist and environmentalist who argued that environmental issues have their root in
How Chilean Workers Beat Google | Activist History
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How to Build a Public Bench
Learn how to build a publicly-accessible community bench with this step-by-step guide by San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective.
How to Transform Pop Culture into a Tool for Resistance | Deep Dive
One thing has been true for thousands of years: humans love to be entertained. In modern society, entertainment is all
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance | Activist History
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Whistleblowing Guide for Tech & Government Workers
A collection of resources and guides for tech workers to safely and securely reveal compromising information in the public interest.
Open Alternatives
A massive directory of open-source (ie. free!) alternatives to popular software for nearly everything, from messaging & collaboration tools
How to Use Your Federal Taxes to Resist War
A 5-step guide written by the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee to help Americans decide if tax resistance
How to Feed Your Community
A helpful guide by Food Not Bombs (FNB) for anyone wanting to feed their neighbors/localized community. If you’ve
The Offline Community Organizing Manual
A practical guide by Shadowbanned Magazine to help you stay connected to your community, share resources, and sustain our movements
How Sex Becomes a Tool of Resistance | Activist History
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Militant Housewives During the Great Depression by Annelise Orleck Study Guide
A study guide to learn about how American housewives and mothers organized themselves during the Great Depression.
Hacking South African Apartheid | Activist History
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A Quick Start Guide for Running for Office in the US
This guide from the non-profit Civitech is a walk through of the basics of a political campaign. You may
Why Socialism Won in NYC (and How To Do It Again) | Activist History
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How Mississippi Turned Education into Liberation | Activist History
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How to: Start a Food Rescue Program
A detailed guide by Boulder Food Rescue (which was inspired by Food Not Bombs) to help you redistribute fresh food
5 Part Strategy for a Living Revolution by George Lakey
Explore a 5-Part Strategic Framework for revolutionary systems change, drawing from nonviolent movements from around the world.
How Serbians Weaponized Satire | Activist History
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Saint Heron Community Library
A free growing digital and physical archival collection of primarily rare, out-of-print, and first-edition words by incredible
Positive Tipping Points Toolkit
A toolkit to help others facilitate positive change. It helps you understand how change happens, how to help create conditions
How Sex Work Took Center Stage | Activist History
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The Legacy of May 1968 | Activist History
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Critical Media Literacy Tips for the Digital Age
A collection of media literacy tips and frameworks to help you determine what is true, different types of truth, and what is mis/disinformation in the modern media landscape.
The Hip-Hop Newsroom in Senegal | Activist History
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Project Gutenberg: Free eBooks
A library of over 75,000 free epub and Kindle eBooks available to download or read online, with focus on
Sci-Hub
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The Ground-Zero Guide for Building Community
A guide to help you start participating in building more intentional and resilient communities.
The Roots of Black August | Activist History
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness Study Guide
A Study Guide based on a fantastic and foundational article by political scientist & feminist organizer Jo Freeman, who outlines the limitations of unstrctured "leaderless" organizations and argues that actively creating structure creates more democratic groups.
The Cautionary Tale of Brazil's Free Fare Movement | Activist History
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How to Use Signal
Two guides to help you get your Signal setup for everyday activism. The first guide is from Surveillance Self-Defense
Imagining a World Beyond Borders | Deep Dive
Lately, we’ve been thinking a lot about borders - what it takes to create them, enforce them, and cross them.
How Chile Voted Out a Dictator | Activist History
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How to Volunteer for Jail Support
A great guide by Up Against the Law Legal Collective on how to start doing jail support. If your community
Riot Medicine: Street Medic Guides
A collection of guides, zines, and other printables for non-medical and medical professionals sharing everything you need to know
How to Start a Community Defense Center
A guide to help you mobilize your neighborhood to better protect each other against harm (ie. authoritarian attacks, state repression)
The Protest Playbook
A practical and tactical guide to help citizens win real change, not just headlines, because we don't have
High-Impact Crisis Support Roles
Not everyone needs to be on the front-lines. Whether it be for a protest, disaster, occupation, raid, or other
High-Risk Protest Safety Guide
As the State escalates its efforts all over the country (and the world), protests can quickly become high-risk and
The Third World Liberation Front | Activist History
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The Radical Roots of Pan-Asian Identity | Deep Dive
This is the full "Connecting the Dots" segment from the Conscious Citizens Dispatch #19. To read the rest
How to Call Your Reps: A Neurodivergent Friendly Step-by-Step Guide
Calling your representatives is one of the best ways to make your voice heard in a low-lift and consistent
Cómo Palestina se Conecta Literalmente con Todo
Para muchos de los que apoyan a Palestina, no lo vemos como un solo problema, es una representación de casi TODOS los problemas en uno. En este artículo queremos exponer estas conexiones.
How Palestine Connects to Literally Everything | Deep Dive
For many who support Palestine, we don't see it as a single issue - it is a representation of nearly ALL issues in one. In this article we want to lay out these connections.
How Travelers Exposed Israel's Racist Border Laws | Activist History
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Disabled Protester Guide
A great article originally by Disability Law United with tips for how to protest if you are more vulnerable or
The Women Who Fought Nuclear War | Activist History
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Spotting Co-optation & Building More Resilient Movements | Deep Dive
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Trump's Tariffs & the End of American Dominance | Deep Dive
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The Direct Action Guide
A thorough step-by-step guide on how to organize and carry out your own protest action. Learn what direct
How to Prepare a Press Release for a Protest Action
If you are seeking mainstream media press around your direct action, here's a step-by-step guide from
Blueprints for Revolution
A practical study guide of Srdja Popovic’s 2015 book "Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego
The Rebel Clown Army | Activist History
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Harnessing the Power of Art in Activism | Deep Dive
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How to Strengthen Local Community Connections
Building strong, resilient networks with the people around you is the best way we have to prepare for the difficult
Actipedia
A free, open-access, user-generated digital database of creative activism.
The Trail of Dreams | Activist History
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What Mahmoud Khalil Reveals About All Struggles | Deep Dive
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Methods for Winning Over an Opponent
If you're trying to build community, coalition, influence, or just wanna help someone to come around to your
How to Set Up a Small Lending Library
A step-by-step guide on setting up a small-scale lending library of things –whether it be equipment, kitchen
Solidarity Economy: A Post-Capitalist Vision | Deep Dive
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Community Resource Hub's Policing Library
The largest collection of education materials, organizing tools, and reports exclusively dedicated to the issue of policing, in the world.
How Capitalism Killed Our Imagination | Deep Dive
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Protest Safety Guide
A protest safety guide that includes downloadable resources to help you get prepared before, during and after a protest.
Seeds for Change
A collection of articles about campaign skill development, consensus decision making, facilitation, skills for working in groups, resources for co-
SocioEco: A Solidarity Economy Library
An online library dedicated to the social and solidarity economy and its associated concepts. It contains documents in 5 main
