Sample Documents

• Sample Agenda for your First Meeting
- Set your campaign up for success with a great first meeting
• Endorsement Form
- Build credibility by getting organizations/individuals to endorse our movement
• Faculty Calling Rap
- Get your professors to let you come speak in class
• Faculty Email
• GOTV Class Rap
- An effective way to get hoards of voters out to vote Nov 4th
• GOTV Phone Bank
• Letter to the Editor
- Get published and reach thousands of readers
• Media Advisory
• Pledge Rap
- An essential for canvassing and campus organizing
• Press Release
- Find your way to the media spotlight
• Volunteer Phonebanking Rap
- Recruiting the backbone of this movement

Training

• Class Rap
• Phonebanking
• Tabling

Anti-Oppression Resources

Race, Whiteness and Racism

• Affirmative Action Comic
• Whiteness, Organizing, and Allies
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Building a Racially Diverse and Anti-Oppressive Movement
• 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

Environmental Justice
• 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)

Class
• Opening Pandora's Box: Adding Classism to the Agenda
- 3 pages. Good overview on class and classism in USA
• Wanna Talk Values?
- 1 1/2 pages. Class and Race intersections and classism among African Americans
• Cross Class Dialogue
- 3 pages. 8 people from different class backgrounds meet monthly to share their experiences. Here's what they find.
• Elite Colleges Must Give Low-Income Students the Tools to Succeed
- 3 pages. The challenges students from low income backgrounds often face in college.
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• Internalized Oppression and Disability