Resources
Sample Documents
- Sample Agenda for your First Meeting
- Endorsement Form
- Faculty Calling Rap
- Faculty Email
- GOTV Class Rap
- GOTV Phone Bank
- Letter to the Editor
- Media Advisory
- Pledge Rap
- Press Release
- Volunteer Phonebanking Rap
- Set your campaign up for success with a great first meeting
- Build credibility by getting organizations/individuals to endorse our movement
- Get your professors to let you come speak in class
- An effective way to get hoards of voters out to vote Nov 4th
- Get published and reach thousands of readers
- An essential for canvassing and campus organizing
- Find your way to the media spotlight
- Recruiting the backbone of this movement
Training
Anti-Oppression Resources
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Race, Whiteness and Racism
- Affirmative Action Comic
- Whiteness, Organizing, and Allies
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- A Note on Guilt
- Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing (.pdf)
- How to Diversify Environmentalism?
- Student Environmentalists Learn Hard Lessons
- 15 Tools for Creating Healthy, Productive Interracial/Multicultural Communities
- The Soul of Environmentalism
- Interview with Robert Bullard (Great Environmental Justice Primer)
- Principles of Environmental Justice (.pdf)
- 10 Principles for Just Climate Change Policies in the US
- Bali Principles of Climate Justice
- We Speak for Ourselves: Indigenous peoples challenge the fossil fuel regime in Alberta
- A Climate of Change: African Americans, Global Warming and a Just Climate Policy for the US (.pdf)
- Opening Pandora's Box: Adding Classism to the Agenda
- Wanna Talk Values?
- Cross Class Dialogue
- Elite Colleges Must Give Low-Income Students the Tools to Succeed
- Internalized Oppression and Disability
Building a Racially Diverse and Anti-Oppressive Movement
Environmental Justice
Class
- 3 pages. Good overview on class and classism in USA
- 1 1/2 pages. Class and Race intersections and classism among African Americans
- 3 pages. 8 people from different class backgrounds meet monthly to share their experiences. Here's what they find.
- 3 pages. The challenges students from low income backgrounds often face in college.
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