Organizing & Campaigns
Power, Strategy + Tactics
Base Building & Leadership Development
Movement Building & Political Education
Wild Card
100
The process of building organizations of people with similar interests who use their collective power to win immediate improvements in people's lives and alter the relations of power.
What is organizing?
100
This means, simply, “to be able” to shape our lives and the world around us. It is not good or bad. It is how you use it and toward what end.
What is power?
100
This is a method of getting our constituency into our base
What is outreach
100
These are foundational systems you will see at the roots of a problem tree and all of our issues
What is capitalism, white supremacy (racism) and patriarchy (sexism)
100
This is a controversial incentive for membership.
What is a stipend?
200
Taking individual action to bring about change in society.
What is activism?
200
Actions taken as part of a campaign that should be aligned with a broader strategy and direct engage your target. They often build upon one another, or escalate.
What are Tactics?
200
This is made up of the people in the constituency who are engaged with our organization in some concrete way.
What is our base?
200
Field Marshal for the Black Panther Party, Marxist theoretician and political prisoner who wrote the books Soledad Brother and Blood In My Eye.
Who is George Jackson?
200
We had this kind of food for lunch on day 1
What is Indian?
300
A sustained, time-bound effort at winning a specific demand or goal. A good one builds the base, develops leaders, builds power and lays the foundation for future wins.
What is campaigns?
300
The individual who has the power to give us what we want. It’s important we understand their interests so we can develop specific strategies, craft specific messaging and negotiate based upon this understanding.
What is your target?
300
This rule dictates the amount of time you spent listening versus talking during outreach.
What is 70/30, 60/40, 80/20.
300
The philosophers George Jackson "met" while incarcerated?
Who is Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Mao
300
This person is the (real) winner of My Biggest Fan.
Who Nane?
400
A sustained, time-bound effort at winning a specific demand or goal. A good one builds the base, develops leaders, builds power and lays the foundation for future wins.
What is a campaign?
400
An exercise or tool used to give us an accurate understanding of the political landscape to inform our strategies. It can also help us assess our own political power, which is critical to our strategy.
What is a power map?
400
The two qualities organizers should be looking for in identifying leadership potential within our membership, often identified through a Leadership Matrix?
What is “high will (or commitment) and high skill (capacity)”?
400
Along with hunger strikes, what tactics were used during the campaign to end solitary confinement.
What is lawsuits, reframing messaging in media, etc.
400
The name of one of the people who was on Hiram's tshirt yesterday.
Who is Fidel Castro or Malcolm X
500
An exercise or tool that helps us stay grounded in the daily lived experience of our members, provides an opportunity for political education on root causes and helps us identify specific issues ripe for campaigns.
What is a Problem Tree?
500
The overall plan to win a campaign. It usually consists of much smaller actions, or tactics, taken in coordination with one another.
What is your strategy?
500
The process by which organizations build collective power over time by regularly recruiting, orienting and training new members from the constituency.
What is base building?
500
This is the definition of Capitalism used in the training.
What is a political and economic system that is dependent on private ownership of the means of production and the accumulation of wealth by those owners who exploit working class people for profit.
500
These are 7 of the organizations represented in the training
Who are Anti Police Terror Project
BHC Monterey County
CA Immigrant Policy Center
California Alliance for Youth and Community Justice
California youth connection
Californians For JusticeCommunities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ)
Concrete Rose
Ella Baker Center
Ending Patriarchal Violence (M4BL)
FLY
Initiate Justice
La Plazita Institute
Legal services of prisoners with Children/AOUON
Silicon Valley DeBug
The Change Parallel Project
UDW
Youth Alliance
Youth Leadership Institute
ABMoC
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos