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...Anyone Can: A guide to starting an environmental group and running an environmental campaign

By Robin K.VilIiers Brown. This book is designed to help all those people who care for their environment. Those who want to save something (e.g. a piece of bushland, endangered animals or their habitats, trees, or an historic building) or stop something (e.g. destruction of an area or pollution) - People who want to become involved in decisions that affect their live. In a world with increasing environmental problems, pollution, destruction of habit and species loss, it is good to see someone take an interest in stopping environmental problems. But there are shortcuts that can help you with your group and any campaign. This guide has shortcuts and ideas to help you avoid and overcome problems, so you can work more effectively and efficiently with less problems - and more easily achieve your goals.

http://www.rag.org.au/anyonecan/anyonecan.htm

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Activist Toolkits: Making Rights a Reality

These Activist Toolkits on Women's Rights are produced by Amnesty International. They cover: Human rights education on gender awareness; Campaigning to stop violence against women; The responsibilities of states to address violence against women; and International legal standards relating to violence against women in armed conflict.

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/svaw-toolkit-eng

(Added: Tue Mar 28 2006   Modified: Mon Aug 14 2006   Hits: 319)

Activists' Guide to Fight Water Privatization

Public Citizen (US). This is an introductory guide to being a water privatization organizer in your community. We hope you find this guide to be a useful learning tool as well as a helpful resource for information on the water industry.

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/activist/

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Agriculture and the WTO in Africa: Understand to Act

The purpose of this book is to provide guidance in understanding how international trade institutions and agreements operate. Its aim is to provide those in charge of civil society organisations in sub-Saharan Africa with tools and references to better understand the stakes behind, and means for, their participation in world trade. Organised around descriptive and factual texts, this work contains many definitions and is illustrated by concrete experiences that facilitate reading (Marie-Christine Lebret and Arlène Alpha, GRET, 2007).

http://www.gret.org/publications/ouvrages/infoomc/index_en.html

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Amnesty International Campaigning Manual

For more than 40 years Amnesty International (AI) members have been campaigning to protect and promote human rights. This manual aims to pass on the experience of these campaigners in an accessible format. We hope it will become a well-thumbed reference book for all those campaigning for human rights.

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/campaigning-manual-eng

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Amnesty International Letter Writing Guide

Amnesty International's guide to writing letters to goverments.

http://www.amnesty.org/campaign/letter-guide.html

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An Introduction to Activism on the Internet

There are many factors that make Internet attractive for campaigning: its transmission speed, its reach globally and locally to a enormous number of users, low publishing cost, and 24 hour access. The Internet is an important alternative source of information to official and mainstream media, and a powerful means of connection outside of mainstream institutions. It is a truly mass medium, enabling individuals world-wide to share information and converse. This document offers a brief introduction to a few different techniques of electronic advocacy using email, the Web, and other "new media" to bring about social change.

http://www.backspace.com/action/all.php

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Appeals Worldwide

Appeals Worldwide specializes in producing appeals letters based on Amnesty International cases, for you to send to the authorities in the countries concerned. The definitive cure for "writer's block"! No two letters that we produce are identically worded, and you can further adapt them to your own requirements. Never before has it been so easy to act on behalf of human rights victims.

http://www.appealsww.com/

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Can You Imagine a Better World?

On this page Idealist invites you to imagine a better community and a better world, and to see how we can build it together, starting right now. There is a good chance that right now, on different floors of an apartment building somewhere in your country, two people are looking out their windows and wishing there were a garden or a playground below instead of a dirty lot. But acting alone can be difficult, and in many neighborhoods, both rich and poor, there is no way for people to know that they are not alone-that down the street, or two floors above or below them, there may be others who would gladly work with them if they only knew where or how to find them. This sense of unrealized potential is one engine driving this project. The other is a conviction that working together across our differences we can do something about it. Attend or host a start-up meeting in your neighborhood, school, or workplace. Post a comment by logging in below. Invite other people to take part in this initiative.

http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/Invite/default?sid=82854371-244-Mik

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China: End Child Labor in State Schools

Background information from Human Rights Watch on the practice of 'Work and Study' programmes that operate in many state schools in China (Human Rights Watch, 3 December 2007).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/end%20child%20labor%20in%20state%20school.doc

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Community Empowerment Training

These detailed training modules cover how to mobilise a community, and ideas and tools for community action.

http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/a-mod.htm

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DataCenter

DataCenter exists to build the capacity of a broad-based social justice movement that embodies, embraces, and honors diverse cultures to create the new systems and institutions essential to building a just and equitable world. For the social justice movement to have an impact, community voices and action must be informed. The DataCenter's mission is to provide social justice advocates, especially the poor and people of color, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills that will help them conduct more effective campaigns.

http://www.datacenter.org/

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Empowering Young Women to Lead Change [pdf]

Empowering Young Women to Lead Change is an easy to follow resource manual designed to enable young women to prepare and facilitate training on a host of issues that are important to them. A joint publication of the World YWCA and UNFPA, the manual was developed by young women and contains modules on young women's leadership, economic justice, HIV and AIDS, human rights, peace, self esteem and body image, sexual and reproductive health and violence against women. (UNFPA, 2006)

http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/628_filename_empowering-young-women_eng.pdf

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Essential.org

Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, Essential Information is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. We are involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. We provide provocative information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and policy makers.

http://www.essential.org

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Free Advocacy Materials: The Democracy Centre

As a service to progressive social justice advocates worldwide The Democracy Center is happy to make available here a wide variety of free advocacy materials. These can be used as newsletter inserts, handout materials for trainings, curricula for university courses and more.

http://democracyctr.org/advocacy/materials.htm

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Free The Planet!

The mission of Free The Planet! is to expand the student environmental movement, provide resources for student activists, and help students win campaigns for strong environmental protections.

http://www.freetheplanet.org

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Get Active Aotearoa

Get Active in your local community! This site contains all you need to know about setting up and managing your own social or environmental campaigns, drawn from the experience of campaigners in New Zealand and Australia with contributions from a range of environmental and social change activisits.

http://www.getactive.org.nz/

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Green Map

Green Map System energizes a diverse global movement of local mapmaking teams charting their community's natural, cultural and green living resources with our award-winning universal icons and adaptable multi-lingual resources. Includes maps of Hamilton and Wellington.

http://www.greenmap.org

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How To Turn Your Boss Green

Your home is full of recycling bins and your cupboards are filled with food covered in fairtrade and organic labels. You're religious about turning off the lights whenever you leave a room and wouldn't dream of leaving the TV on standby. On the domestic front, you're as green as can be. But at work it's a different story. All that wasted paper, the unfairly traded tea and coffee, the lights left on over night, the computers blazing out heat all day long. It's not your fault - although many businesses are getting serious about sustainability, some still fail to provide recycling bins or to consider the environmental impacts of their products and services. If your employer is one of those who hasn't yet gone green, how can you make them change their ways? (Guardian Unlimited, August 30, 2006)

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/whatcanido/story/0,,1861356,00.html

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Keeping It Legal

This online resource has been developed by the New Zealand Government as a resource for community organisations, groups, trusts and societies so that they can have simple, accurate information about their legal obligations. (New Zealand Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations & Office for the Community and Voluntart Sector, 25 September 2006)

http://www.keepingitlegal.net.nz/

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Kiva

Kiva is a an organisation that allows people who want to sponsor development projects directly connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can sponsor a business. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you've sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.

http://www.kiva.org/

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Letter Writing Campaigns That Work

Writing letters to governments and businesses is a great way to be heard and to create change, whether in your own neighbourhood, or a thousand miles away. And letter campaigns are one of the most common, popular and effective ways of getting large numbers of people involved in an issue. Letter-writing campaigns are easy to organize and are a non-confrontational way of acting on an issue. Concerned about something? Want someone to do something about it? Here are some steps to get your letter-writing campaign started (Pacific People's Partnership).

http://www.pacificpeoplespartnership.org/takeaction/getting_organized.html

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MobileActive.org

MobileActive is a global network of people (and their tools, projects, and resources) focused on the use of mobile phones in civil society. We expand access to knowledge, ideas and experience about the use of mobile technology; reduce learning costs for civil society organizations; accelerate the use of effective tactics in campaigns; and provide a comprehensive platform for data on mobile projects and mobile use around the world.

http://mobileactive.org/

(Added: Thu Dec 20 2007   Modified: Thu Jan 24 2008   Hits: 68)

Mobilising for change: a workshop for people seeking to build engaging campaigns

The Mobilising for Change hui (workshop) has been organised by the Change Agency (tCA) from Australia and is hosted by the Auckland Workers Education Association (AWEA) in Aotearoa. This interactive workshop will include a range of bright ideas and practical tools to strengthen grassroots community organising.

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/auckland_panui.doc

(Added: Tue Mar 25 2008   Hits: 59)

New Tactics in Human Rights

The New Tactics in Human Rights project, led by a diverse group of international organizations and practitioners, promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community.

http://www.newtactics.org/

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