STUDENT ORGANIZING GUIDES

Check out these resources for information about organizing college students and community members.

ACTION: Activists’ Center for Training In Organizing & Networking
ACTION is a great list of organizing, outreach, protest, media, and research tools for student activists.

Campus Organizing Guide for Peace and Justice
This resource includes information on planning meetings, starting groups, research tools, media help, and non-violent direct action.

The Citizens Handbook
This handbook is designed for community organizing in Vancouver, but could certainly be used for many other types of organizing, community building, or development work. Great list of links.

College Right-to-Life Handbook
"This College Right-to-Life Handbook is intended to serve as a resource for college students working to bring the right-to-life movement to their campuses. It is meant to be a practical, working manual - with a smattering of pro-life theory for good measure."

The Co/Motion guide to Youth-Led Change
Publication Year 2001, 298 pages, Spiral Bound, Cost $35
Engaging youth in Action. This user-friendly training manual is designed to engage young people in effective community action by giving them tools, skills, and strategies to solve problems and improve their communities.

Investing in Social Change: Student Handbook on Community Investment by Colleges and Universities
"Recent years have seen an exciting growth in the number of students concerned with the issues of poverty, economic injustice, and environmental degradation. This new level of student engagement with these global issues - perhaps most publicly illustrated with the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle - has led many students to get involved in campaigns to reform the policies and practices of governments, corporations, and international financial institutions. It has also led them to look critically at the economic policies of their own educational institutions - particularly those policies that determine how these institutions invest their often very large endowments.....The purpose of this guide is to share the experiences of these student-led campaigns and to provide some basic information about the theory and practice of community investment, with the hope of encouraging other students to undertake community investment initiatives at their schools."

She Thinks Student Activist Guide
"SheThinks, the online campus magazine by and for today's thinking student-is offering this guide to bringing commonsense feminism to your campus. Why not start an alternative feminist organization on your campus?" (From the Independent Woman's Forum)

The Student Environmental Action Coalition Organizing Guide
This 138 page (5.5*8.5 size pages) spiral-bound manual is a great tool for beginners and experienced activists alike. Covers all angles of student organizing, including starting or reviving a group, group structure, effective meetings, issues, strategy, tactics, an anti-oppression analysis, a lengthy resource list and much more. Well illustrated and slick looking. Useful for non-environmental organizing too. An unbeatable organizing value.

GREAT ORGANIZING LINKS

Campus Activism
www.campusactivism.org

Jay’s Leftist & Progressive Internet Resources Directory
www.neravt.com/left

Web Resources for Campus-Based Activists
www.corporations.org/democracy/links.html