SEAC Organizing Guide (original) (raw)

An absolute must for every student environmental group.

A massive revision of SEAC's original 1991 organizing guide, this 104 page (5.5*8.5 size pages) spiral-bound manual is a great tool for beginners and experienced activists alike. Covers all angles of student organizing, including starting or reviving a group, group structure, effective meetings, issues, strategy, tactics, an anti-oppression analysis, a lengthy resource list and much more. Well illustrated and slick looking. Useful for non-environmental organizing too. An unbeatable organizing value.

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Each page of the SEAC Organizing Guide (a slightly older version) is now online in http://www.seac.org/sog/pagexx.html where xx is the page number. It does not look as good as the in-print version, because it is hard to covert pagemaker to html. Pictures are somtimes worse quality, and occasionally missing (when the quality would have been too poor) - and the neat layout tricks are mostly gone. But all of the text is there, so you do not miss any of the meat/tofu.

While you could print it out, it will take a lot more paper (up to four times more, unless you do dual-sided), look worse, be bulky, and you won't use it as much as the nice spiral-bound version. So I'd encourage you to buy a copy and help support SEAC!

1 2 3 4 Index
5 6Introduction: We're the Generation of Change!
7SEAC's Founding
8SEAC's History
9 10SEAC Today
11 12Join the Movement

13Starting or Reviving a Group
14Initial Planning
Outreach
15 16 17 Kick-Off Meeting

18Structuring a Group
18Criteria for a Good Organization
Decision Making--Democracy
19Voting and Consensus
20Leaders and "Officers"
21 22Some Possible Officers
23Meeting Roles
24 25Facilitator Tips
26Meeting Tips -- Brainstorms
Writing Group Documents
27Commitment
28Criticism
29 30 31Meeting Structure
32The Introductory Meeting
33Meeting Agenda
Communication Problems
34 35 36 37Continuity and Involving New People
38Honesty
39Hand Signals

40Issues
41 42 43 44Selection Criteria
45Possible Issues
Environmental Racism
Tampons
46Forest Activism
Materials Reduction
47Recycling
Recycled Paper
48Campus Environmental Impact
49Global Warming
50Animal Rights, Vegetarianism and Veganism
Landfills
51Globalization
Safe Food -- Genetic Engineering
52Indigenous Rights
53Democracy on Campus
54Health Care Without Harm
55Free Burma

56Launching a Campaign
56Power
57Setting Goals
58Your Organization
59Constituency
Targets
60Tactics
61Timelines
62 63 64 65The Strategy Chart

66Building Your Organization
66Building a Base
67Widening Your Base
68Deepening Your Members' Commitment
69Keeping Records

70Mobilizing Students
70Your Rights
71 72Choosing Tactics
73 74Educational Tactics
Canvassing
75Dorm Education
Leaflets
76Orientation
Polls and Referendums
77Posters
78Speakers
Tabling
79Teach-Ins
80Voter Registration, Education and Third Parties
81Action Tactics
Banner Drops
Bird-Dogging
Chalking
82Civil Disobedience
Creativity
83Disruption
Electronic Civil Disobedience
84Fasts and Hunger Strikes
85Letter-writing
86Lobbying
87Petitions
88Phone Calls
89Proposals
Public Hearings
90 91Rallies
92Socially Responsible Investing
93 94Sit-Ins
95Street Theater
Strikes
96 97 98 Press Releases

99Developing an Analysis
100 101 102 Environmental Justice
103 Class
104 What is a Caucus?
105 Race
106 White Privilege
107 Gender
108 [Male] Privilege
109 110 111 112Sexuality
113 114 115 116 117 Being Radical
118 119 120 Student Liberation

121 Miscellaneous Tips
121 Electronic Activism
122 Security
Cheap Calls

123 Building SEAC

124 125 126 SEACing the Passion of Greenfire

127 Conclusion

128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 Resources Appendix