Thank you for cooking with us at the March 5 Southern Beyond Survival workshop about Community Organizing. The recipes y’all were sharing for community building, investigate and educate, and collective action are contributing to our collective cookbook of knowledge around our organizing and movement building work.
Thanks to the time we spent together in our shared kitchen, we are all a little more equipped, a little more knowledgeable, our recipe books are fuller, and we’ve all got some interesting recipes and experiments to try out in our communities!
We encourage you to keep sharing these morsels with your folks and keep trying out and putting into practice these tools and approaches.
If you were there, we would really appreciate your taking three minutes to complete the evaluation survey, so we can really serve up some useful and delicious.
Resources from the workshop on Community Organizing:
English Slides (activity slides have been added in to this presentation)
English Recording (use this link if you need AI-generated captions)
Go Deeper on Community Organizing:
Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing
People of Color Environmental Justice Principles from 1991 Summit (these preceded the Jemez Principles)
Southern Echo, who taught us the four principles of community organizing, among many other things
Highlander Methodologies One-pagers English & Spanish – includes Cultural Organizing
People’s Movement Assembly Handbook, Planning Worksheet, and Agenda Template
Problem Tree root cause and issue analysis exercise
Community Mapping Worksheet, part of Highlander’s Economics and Governance curriculum
We Are All Leaders,” BeautifulTrouble.org
Building Powerful Community Organizations book and especially chapter 11
Narrative Strategy from National Domestic Workers Alliance
Tactic Star tool for planning and evaluating campaign tactics
Action Plan Template to divvy up responsibilities
Join the Southern Movement Assembly at southtosouth.org
Let us know if there is a resource you want but don’t see listed here, or if you have a resource to add to this library.
Workshops Comin’ Up:
We request the pleasure of your comp’ny at all of the Threads Workshops. The Threads workshops constitute a baseline, and we will be asking folks to attend or watch the recordings before applying to join us in program offerings that provide deeper accompaniment. Visit the Threads Workshop webpage for all the updated registration links, dates, as well as recordings and resources from workshops celebrating Highlander’s 90th year.
March 31, 7pm to 9:30pm ET: Southern Beyond Survival: From Racial Capitalism to Solidarity Economy – Register
April 20, 7pm to 9:30pm ET: Community Governance
May – Thriving Groups
Also, Southern Movement Assembly’s Hot D.A.M. study group on Mutual Aid – registration opens in April.
Yours in the people’s kitchen,
Ayana, David, April and Denzel