Recommended Reading
General Readings on Social Movement Organizing:
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution. Andrew Boyd. 2017.
CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle. Srdja Popovic, Slobodan Djinovic, Andrej Milivojevic, Hardy Merriman, Ivan Marovic. 2007
Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate. George Lakoff. 2014.
From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation. Gene Sharp. 1993.
Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals. Jonathan Smucker. 2017.
How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century. Hahrie Han & Liz McKenna. 2014.
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. Jane McAlevey. 2017.
Organizing: People, Power, and Change. (Notes/guide from Course) Marshall Ganz. 2006.
Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists. Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, and Steve Max. 2001.
Public Narrative Participant Guide. (Training guide) Marshall Ganz, Serena Zhang, & Voop de Vulpillieres.
Resistance Guide: How to Sustain the Movement to Win. Paul Engler & Sophie Lasoff, in collaboration with Momentum. 2017.
Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything. Becky Bond & Zach Exley. 2016.
The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns. Ivan Marovic. 2018.
“The Tyranny of Structurelessness”. Jo Freeman. 1970.
This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. Paul & Mark Engler. 2016.
Twitter and Teargas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. Zeynep Tufecki. 2017
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan. 2012.
Black Visions: The Roots Of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies. Michael Dawson. 2001.
Movement History & Case Studies:
Bringing Down A Dictator. Documentary film. Steve York. 2002. (Otpor)
‘Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Barbara Ransby. 2005 (Civil Rights Movement)
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. 2014.
Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America. Hahrie Han & Liz McKenna. 2014.
I’ve Got The Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Charles Payne. 2007 (Civil Rights Movement)
Podemos: In the Name Of The People. Íñigo Errejón in conversation with Chantal Mouffe. 2016.
Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. 1979.
Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. Frank Bardacke. 2011. (UFW)
Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States. Craig Hughes, Stevie Peace, and Kevin Van Meter for the Team Colors Collective. 2010.
Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement. Marshall Ganz. 2009.
