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This section contains historical documents from past campaigns and mobilizations, as well as pages with...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 Audacity of Hope
I have just recently returned home from Greece on my own volition, not deported from Israel as I had expected. I am...
Make Big Banks Pay!
Spending time in NY in the early part of this year, made it possible for me to continue some of the banking work I...
Monkey Wrencher of the Year Award!
On April 17th I, along with several distinguished others, was bestowed a Monkey Wrencher of the Year Award by our...
United Auto Workers Rise Up
On March 24th I had the privilege of addressing the 1000 member delegate assembly of the United Auto Workers at their...
Welcoming 2011 Belated
posted on: Feb 18, 2011 | author: organizingforpower
2011 really began for me over the holidays of 2010, when our good friends Laurie and Jenn visited for a week. They often come to Austin, as Jenn...
ESI Step Back!
posted on: Dec 20, 2010 | author: organizingforpower
Spent most of this fall working outside of Philadelphia, PA in a small town called Bensalem working to save some good union jobs. Express Scripts...
Appalachia Rising
posted on: Oct 1, 2010 | author: organizingforpower
On Sept. 27, 2009 over 200o people march through the streets of Washington DC passed the EPA to the White House where over 120 people were arrested...
Hello 2010
posted on: Jan 19, 2010 | author: organizingforpower
OK it is a new year! Maybe, just maybe I will make this blog work. Catching up is taking as much energy as moving forward, so for the...