Explore Types of Activism 

The following topics are listed alphabetically.  You can click any of the buttons to learn more about the specific type of activism.

Lifestyle Activism

Resources

• Beautiful Trouble Toolbox Click a topic, for a list of suggested methods to protest, block, spread awareness, and gain support for your goals.

• Get Up Rise Up Direct Action Fund "The purpose of the Get Up, Rise Up - direct action fund is to support activists globally to shift power through nonviolent direct actions to create a more social and ecological just, healthy, and equitable world for all. While doing so the fund also seek to advance the theories, principles, methods and tactics of strategic nonviolent direct action, building from lessons at the frontlines and add these to our collective world of social movement wisdom.
  This fund is a pilot over the next 6 month as we will learn as we go how to improve and hopefully expand."

• The Resistance Hotline "The Resistance Hotline is a new take on a 1-800 support line offering training and nonviolent action planning support to defend the integrity of our elections and build a strong progressive movement."

• Solidarity Not Aid "Around the world, grassroots movements are facing a common—if somewhat ironic—challenge: the ways in which foreign NGO funding, power, and influence are distorting the democratic pursuit of social justice. In many of the world’s most vulnerable regions, NGOs often dominate services far beyond their original humanitarian mission, systemically disempowering community leadership, and shrinking political space.
  By networking grassroots movements across the world who are on the frontlines of this issue, the ‘Solidarity not Aid’ effort will map common problems, investigate solutions, and explore promising approaches that social movements and local communities can use to promote constructive engagement with NGOs to more effectively drive social change."

"Solidarity, not Aid must become the paradigm of NGO-grassroots partnerships. We hope to develop three tools to achieve this goal:

1. An empowered global network of grassroots social movement leaders sharing best practices for overcoming NGOization trends, as well as directly coordinating in solidarity to set the tone and conditions for local/national/international NGO involvement.

2. “Principles of Solidarity” - outlining core values and practices for democratic, grassroots-empowered and sustainable funding and partnerships, and encourage – and actively campaign – NGOs to sign on to and hold them accountable to.

3. A process of “Bottom-Up Vetting” – a grassroots interview of an encroaching NGO to insure a strategically beneficial and empowering contract (or none at all)."

Anti-Consumption Activism

Europe

UK 

• Contacting Your MP - "This is a resource for Quakers and other people campaigning for positive change. It will help you to decide on an approach, contact your MP if appropriate, and engage with them further when they respond." Includes a visual decision diagram, and links to further resources.

• Toolkit for Action: Planning Effective Action for Change "There is so much in our world that needs healing and putting right, and we each respond differently to different issues. Some of us feel our strongest response when we realize the tragedy of environmental destruction or animal cruelty. Some feel their deepest hurt about an economic system that impoverishes millions, while others have a knot of fear for future generations under the threat of nuclear weapons and the business of war. Some of us are forced into action when we are directly affected by an injustice.
  As Quakers, we are led by our faith in our concern for suffering, violence and injustice – by a spiritual truth that stirs deep within us. If we take heed of this leading, we are surely urged to act to change things. The next obvious question is: how do we bring about change?"

• Turning the Tide "If you’re part of a group or are involved in a project you’d like to develop further, you can request training from Turning the Tide, a Quaker program offering training to people taking nonviolent social action – www.quaker.org.uk/our-work/socialaction-training-and-tools."

• UK Parliament: Contact your MP You can contact your MP when you, or people living in your area, are affected by decisions made by the UK Parliament or by the Government. MPs represent all the people in their local area, whether they vote for them or not.

• Who is my MP?

• When should I contact my MP?

• How do I contact my MP?

• What should I do if my MP hasn’t answered my email/letter?

• What can I ask my MP to do?

• What if the House of Commons is in recess - can I still contact my MP?

• What if my MP is a Minister, Speaker or Deputy Speaker?

• Can I contact other MPs?"

• Adnoddau Cymraeg "Darganfyddwch y gwahanol wasanaethau, cyfleoedd ac adnoddau rydym yn eu darparu i siaradwyr Cymraeg i'ch helpu i ymddiddori yn Senedd y DU. O'n gweithdai cymunedol a gynhelir yn Gymraeg, ein gwasanaethau ymholi, os oes gennych gwestiwn ynglŷn â'r hyn sy'n digwydd yn Senedd y DU neu adnoddau ar gyfer ysgolion."

Food Security/ Gardening

Europe

North America

Green America - "Green America harnesses economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society."

Groups

• Beatiful Trouble Creative tools for a more just world. Also in Arabic, Espanol, Francais, Italian, and Portugese.

• BlackOUT Collective "The BlackOUT Collective is a radical direct action full service organization that provides on the ground support, training and deep space visioning in communities that prioritize the liberation of Black people. BlackOUT Collective address “anti-Blackness” and views direct action as a critical movement strategy to achieve this outcome both in terms of internalized oppression as well as historic and contemporary of white supremacy.
  Using direct action training and support as a vehicle, we help organizations craft strategies that win; in addition to training newly formed formations comprised of politicized Black people. In the past three years, we have witnessed the power of direct action to create instant accountability and its ability to quickly amass power in Black communities. We aim to increase and harness that power." 

• Boomerang Bags "Connecting and empowering local communities to tackle plastic pollution at its source."

Maps

Grants

International

• Animal Charity Evaluators "ACE Movement Grants (formerly “Effective Animal Advocacy Fund”) is for anyone who is interested in making the animal advocacy movement more effective."

Suggested Reading

General

Child-Rearing

• Let Grow: Essential Reading List "When adults step back, kids step up. Learn more about the ways children become more capable when adults trust them to try things on their own."

Psychology, Culture, & History

Western Issues

• A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America "examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations.
  
  Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts--acting, in other words, as sociopaths--the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible--and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off.
  
  Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America. "