Organizing for Power
The content of this website is based on the notes I use for training and split into “building blocks for change,” each with analysis, tools, and...
Power
What is Power? How does it work? Power is the ability to act. Power is not good or bad. It is how you use it and toward what end. Power unchecked or...
Liberation
“I have come to see that violence against other living things is oppression, just as I have come to see that oppression is...
Interest
Interest is something that benefits a person or group or institution or community. Self-interest is a way to cross boundaries. Not everyone has the...
Strategy & Camp...
Strategy is your plan to win. Strategy is choosing the ground on which to engage the enemy Strategy means: Looking at the big picture Knowing who...
Organizing
The process of change has two fundamental strategies. One is dismantling structures of oppression while the second is creating structures of...
Action
The Art & Science of Actions: Shutting Things Down to Open Things Up Change is about transformation – personal and political – at an...
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Resources
This website is full of resources for organizers, activists, students, journalists, or anyone trying to learn...
History
Movement History
This section contains historical documents from past campaigns and mobilizations, as well as pages with...
Media
Media
A compilation of select writings, articles, videos, photos, and slideshows by or about Lisa Fithian and the...
The Intersections of Oppression
I love going through my files. I am always finding cool things. I happened upon this recently and am only now...
2013 – So far I am FREE!
YES – as of my most recent flights to Chicago to do trainings around school closings and then to NY where I...
Rebecca Tarbotton, Presenté
I carry such sadness these days with the loss of Becky Tarbotton, an emerging, visionary, bold and charismatic leader...
Michigan – Awakening the Sleeping Gia...
I was pulled from my “sabbatical” in Austin when I got a phone call from Bob King’s office at the United Auto...
My talk with Cornel West & Lize Mogel @ ...
posted on: Sep 22, 2012 | author: organizingforpower
Check this out! MICA, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the ACLU hosted this event where I spoke with Cornell West and artist Lize Mogel. ...
Beautiful Trouble & We Are Many
posted on: Sep 15, 2012 | author: organizingforpower
One of my biggest challenges and areas where I lack confidence is finally beginning to change – my ability to write about the work that I do! I was...
How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Homecare Work...
posted on: Aug 10, 2012 | author: organizingforpower
This summer I thought I was going to have some free time for a change before the political conventions heated up in August. I was just starting to...
Shareholder Spring
posted on: Jun 4, 2012 | author: organizingforpower
This spring I help put together, train and coordinate folks to confront Wells Fargo and Bank of America investors at their annual shareholder...