Noncooperation Library

Core Curriculum: Authoritarianism and Noncooperation

No cooperación y autoritarismo

2-page Redline Worksheet

Examples of Mass Noncooperation Tactics

Full Redline Workbook

Límites no negociables – Hoja de trabajo

So The National Guard is Coming to Your City?

Tácticas de no cooperación para que cruzar un límite se vuelva en contra de quien lo hace

Así que la Guardia Nacional llegó (o podría llegar) a tu ciudad…

Educadores contra el Autoritarismo

Educators Fighting Authoritarianism

Faith Pillar: We are stronger than you think
120-minute training

Faith Pillar: We are stronger than you think
120-minute training

Goals:
* Understand our context
(democratic backsliding and the history of authoritarianism here and globally)
* Discuss strategies for countering authoritarianism
* Reflect on lessons we can draw from stories of faith resistance
* Explore ways to take action in the near future

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Hope PV – Responding to Political Violence
120-minute training

Hope PV – Responding to Political Violence
120-minute training

The HOPE guide is designed to help people across the United States counter political violence. It aims to empower individuals and strengthen communities to make political violence backfire against those who incite, threaten, and enact it.
Community responses to political violence can both support victims and impose costs on those who incite and engage in abuse. We need to stand up to those who want to silence our voices, who try to deny us our rights, and who aim to bully their way into political influence through intimidation and violence.
Get updated versions at: Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence

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How to Plan an Effective Economic Pressure Action

Working Class Solidarity VS Billionaires: A training to take back our collective power as unions and working folks.

Legal Pillar: Collective Action Against Democratic Backsliding
120-minute training

Legal Pillar: Collective Action Against Democratic Backsliding
120-minute training

A workshop for folks in the legal pillar (judiciary, lawyers, etc) about how collective action has helped stop democratic backsliding

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Noncooperation from Federal Workers

For security reasons, this is not a full training but includes some of the key elements for training fed workers.

Pilares de Apoyo

Pillars of Support Explained

We Hold More Political Power Than We Realize. An explainer video on the pillars of support.

Session 1: The Moment & Your Mission

Session 2: How to Make it Happen

Session 3: What Now?

Slide Deck from Session 1

The People’s Pardon Training Slide Deck (60-minute training)

A very simple-to-use presentation you can copy and lead with your own group explaining the basics. To use for your own workshops, download your own copy.

Youth Bringing Down Dictators: history of students resisting authoritarians

Action Security and De-escalation
120-minute training

Action Security and De-escalation
120-minute training

Goals:
* how to make actions safer before, during and after an action;
* de-escalation with people on our side and opposition.

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Economic Pressure Campaign Toolkit

Ejemplos de tácticas de no cooperación masiva

“How can artists contribute?” Created by the US Department of Arts and Culture

How to talk with people you might disagree with
120-minute training

How to talk with people you might disagree with
120-minute training

Goals:
* Learn skills for bridging with unlikely allies:
– reframing condemnatory ways of communicating
– intro to Race/Class Narrative
– asking open ended questions
– sharing personal narratives
* Committing to at least one place where we will practice (e.g. public invitations or deep canvassing or…).

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Labor Pillar: The Role of Unions in Countering Authoritarians

Mutual Aid 101
120-minute training

Mutual Aid 101
120-minute training

Handouts: Mutual Aid 101 Handouts

Goals:
* Understand what mutual aid is and why people do it
* Know the initial steps of starting your own neighborhood pod
* Learn about Pod Mapping
Have additional resources for your own mutual aid work

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Protect Democracy’s One-pager On Grand Juries

Sense-making and Vision: how did we get here?
120-minute training

Sense-making and Vision: how did we get here?
120-minute training

Goals:
* preparing people emotionally to be ready to fight back (emotional triage),
* girding people for the long fights ahead by making people feel part of a large resistance community (how to organize under the new threat),
* orienting towards our next steps (you can adapt this to your design — here we’re introducing the “Block and Build” strategy).

This design requires some adaptations for your group, including your specific plans next and some chances for leadership to openly reflect on what they’re taking away from this moment. (People will want to hear from you!)

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