Advocacy and Community Organizing
Consider the following frameworks for your own advocacy work and take action.
Crenshaw, Kimberle Williams, Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
- All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
- Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejeris Dixon
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
- Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
- Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
- Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists (2010) by Kimberly Bobo, Steve Max, et al.
- Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times by Carolina De Robertis
- Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing by Lee Staples
- Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinksy
- Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy by Rinku Sen
- Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran
- VITAL: A Torch for your Social Justice Journey by Kyle C. Ashlee and Aeriel A. Ashlee
- We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do–and Why by Kristin Layng Szakos and Joe Szakos
- Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey
- Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity: A national training intermediary focused on transforming the practice of Black organizers in the US to increase their alignment, impact, and sustainability to win processive change through training programs, coaching, and technical assistance.
- Black Organizing Project: Racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community building by prioritizing developing leadership skills and political analysis of key member-leaders within the community to act as critical change agents.
- Forsyth Freedom Federation: The People’s liberation movement from the status quo. We bring together progressive voices of our community to represent the values of everyday people and demand that the government champions our rights and interests.
- Highlander Research and Education Center: Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, Highlander works with people fighting for justice, equality, and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action and shape their own destiny.
- Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) Peoples Assembly Coalition: To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and discrimination.
- Minister’s Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity: Utilize organizational resources and networks to promote social, economic, and educational change or status throughout the Piedmont Triad Area by working across denominations, cultures, races, and socioeconomic classes.
- North Carolina Justice Center: As a leading progressive research and advocacy organization, our mission is to eliminate poverty in North Carolina by ensuring that every household in the state has access to the resources, services, and fair treatment it needs to achieve economic security.
- Southern Coalition for Social Justice: Partner with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities in the South to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights through the combination of legal advocacy, research, organizing, and communications.
- Southerners on New Ground: SONG envisions a sustainable South that embodies the best of its freedom traditions and works towards the transformation of our economic, social, spiritual, and political relationships. We envision a multi-issue southern justice movement that unites us across class, age, race, ability, gender, immigration status, and sexuality; a movement in which LGBTQ people – poor and working-class, immigrant, people of color, rural – take our rightful place as leaders shaping our region’s legacy and future. We are committed to restoring a way of being that recognizes our collective humanity and dependence on the Earth.