Building Security Culture, Coalitions, & Tactics

• Ruckus in the Rainforest's Security Culture for Activists
• Activist InfoSec: "Security Culture: A handbook for activists" (3rd edition, 2001, based on the notes from the Coalition Opposed to Police Brutality-Mtl, by Security.tao.ca & the Resist Collective / [e-mail])
  For many years, this infosec site was also mirrored at security.resist.ca and available en français and produced an email security news bulletin (<–in this issue, #5, from 2002, via The Wayback Machine, find How-to: Recognize and Counter Police Harassment in Your Community). Also carried links to other digital security resources, such as the Participating with Safety Project from the Association for Progressive Communications (Paul Mobbs, 2002: Introducing Information Security)
• CrimethInc's 2004, "What is Security Culture"
• "Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements" July 15, 2010. Courtney Desiree Morris
• "Basic Politics of Movement Security" text and a PDF here, from 2013, a collaboration of J. Sakai and Mandy Hiscocks after the 2010 anti-g20 movement infiltration (order the publication from Kersplebedeb, & also at AK Press) {Another reflection from that time: Unmasked: Searching for lessons in Toronto's 2010 G20 debacle, by Andrea Bennett, 2013}
• "Activist Information Security" (Imposed A4 booklet version) October 2016, by Anarchist Black Cross Dresden
• "Mobile Phone Security for Activists and Agitators" by Håkan Geijer (2022)
• memesurrection thread: things that ought to raise a red flag in your head

Organizing

Horizontal Processes:

• Anarchic Rules: A guide to the process of constitutionalising and group forming
• Anarchic Rules #2: A guide to the process of forming coalitions and networks
• Seeds for Change Consensus Decision Making this also refers to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, whose original "Great Law of Peace" united many nations and was counted as a key inspiration for the US constitution.
• On this Great Law/agreement, the Kayenere:kowa, here are some notes on preliminary best practices in trying to sit down together… particularly see the section: "Sewatohkwat – The Dish with One Spoon / Beaver Bowl Treaties" in the Kanyen’kehá:ka handbook Tsi niyonkwarihotens (Customary Law and Practice) Regarding Economy and Medicine from DustingOffThePath.com in 2019: "Many of the protocols within Sewatohkwat have an ancient history stretching back to the foundation of the Kayenere:kowa, the constitution developed by the Rotinonhsonnitonh (they who have built the house)." See also NEFAC's Stephen Arthur's, Anarchist Study of the Rotinonshón:ni Polity: “Where License Reigns With All Impunity”
• It's Going Down: On the Need for an Anarchist Federation
• a classic, from 1971, Jo Freeman's, "The Tyranny of Structureless"
• ABC's of Organizing, 1993 poster by Ricardo Levins Morales:
  
  

See also: especifismo, platformism, direct action

Direct Action

• Libertarian Labor Review (later the Anarcho-Syndicalist Review). This magazine started in 1987. The table of contents of all issues are online at the ASR website, but only scattered articles have been digitized so far.
  Harald-Beyer Arnesen, "Direct Action: Towards an Understanding of a Concept," Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, #29, Summer 2000.

• Ideas and Action:
  This magazine began in 1982. It was published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance. Here again, the contents of the issues are online at their website, but only scattered essays have been digitized. Here is one about direct action, but from a later date:
  "The Bay Area Direct Action Network – A Postmortem," Ideas and Action, No. 16, Fall, 1991, by Mike Kolhoff

• Mitchel Cohen, What is Direct Action? A famous Red Balloon Collective pamphlet from 1988 (out of Brooklyn) republish link

• The Freedom Press newspapers, including those from the '70s and '80s, have now been digitized and are available at:
  https://freedomnews.org.uk/archive/

Theatre of the Oppressed

• Theory: Theatre of the Oppressed in the Beautiful Trouble Toolbox
  “The theatre itself is not revolutionary: It is a rehearsal for the revolution.” ~ Augusto Boal (here's some links to resources about his work and Boal's Institute in Brazil)
• What is the Theatre of the Oppressed?
  
  
  For further details on the specific methods above, including the Rainbow of Desire
• Praxis Makes Perfect "Organizers should have the praxis cycle spinning in their heads all the time. We are always learning from what’s going on around us. The point of building a culture of praxis in your group, however, is so your whole group can learn, not just a couple of organizers. When you develop your theory (your plan and your goals) with your group, and then have a real debrief after, the lessons are available to all."

Affinity Group - based

-Crimethinc's (2017) "How to form an Affinity Group"

Tactics and Strategy - Labour

Processed World
This was one of my favorite anarchist magazines of the '80s. The whole run is now online. I read through the table of contents for the 12 issues that I own but didn't see any articles with "direct action" in the title. Still, there is a lot of good stuff on labor. Their focus was on the workplace. (review via James Herod, but also obviously one of Gidget Digit's favourites, where I got this pseudonym!)
http://www.processedworld.com/index_covers.html

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

• IWW note on tactics
• "Strategy and tactics" tagged articles from the Environmental Unionist Caucus of the IWW (including "a Just Transition and Extractive Industry Workers"
• An IWW pamphlet from 1974 How To Sack Your Boss: A Workers Guide to Direct Action
• some notes on the contradictions in the SEIU's "Advice to Rookie Organizers"