Quick guide for a revolution [multi-language]
[MULTILINGUAL] Quick guide for a revolution [PDF] [ENGLISH] Quick guide for a revolution [ESPAÑOL/SPANISH] Breve guía para montar revoluciones [PORTUGUÊS/PORTUGUESE] Guia Rápido para uma revolução [MULTILINGUAL] – English – Español/Spanish – Português/Portuguese [ENGLISH]…
Guia Rápido para uma revolução (Português)
Quick guide for a revolution [MULTI-LANGUAGE] Guia Rápido para uma revolução (pelo movimento 15M/Occupy) [PDF] Índice: Sê os 99%. – Pensa como os 99%. – Pergunta aos 99%. – Abre as portas aos…
Quick guide for a revolution (English)
Quick guide for a revolution [MULTI-LANGUAGE] Quick guide for a revolution (by the movement 15M/Occupy) [PDF] Index: Be the 99%. – Think as the 99%. – Ask the 99%. – Open the doors…
Tools, ideas, concepts and strategies
[From http://titanpad.com/15mtools] This is a space to share tools, valuable ideas, concepts and strategies between the different grass-root social movements 1. The use of pads like this is useful to make collaborative work…
Consensus Decision Making
[http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/free/consensus] Consensus Decision Making What is consensus? Conditions for using consensus The consensus process The stages of consensus process A consensus flowchart Guidelines for reaching consensus Quick consensus decision making Consensus in large…
Breve guía para montar revoluciones
Quick guide for a revolution [MULTI-LANGUAGE] Breve guía para montar revoluciones. (por el movimiento 15M/Occupy) [PDF] Índice: Sed el 99%. – Piensa desde el 99%. – Pregunta al 99%. – Abre las puertas…
Tree Bressen’s Consensus & Facilitation Resources
Consensus & Facilitation Resources Tree Bressen’s website has dozens of free articles, handouts, etc. on doing good process in “horizontal” groups (groups with a primarily egalitarian orientation). Group facilitation is an art and…
Dialogue Management Program released
Get rid of frustrations and overcome speech anxiety with Dialog4. Experience superior task performance, enjoy meetings more, and reach more favorable decisions. Dialog4 evaluates all peoples’ requests in order to get you a…
Propongo (Spain)
Propongo Si crees que nuestra sociedad podría ser mejor y deseas cambiarla, esta es tu página web. Propongo es la herramienta del Movimiento 15-M que nos permite buscar entre todos soluciones a los…
Seeds For Change Network
Seeds For Change Network is a non-profit training and support co-op helping people organise for action and positive social change. The network started in 2000 with informal co-operation between people who were doing…
Resources for Small Town Occupations [PDF]
This guide was developed by the Rural Organizing Project, an organization aimed at advancing democracy in rural Oregon. It includes a sample opinion article, letter to the editor, social media resources, customizable informational…
Santa Cruz General Assembly Process Guide [PDF]
General Assembly Process Guide A booklet of very useful information produced by the Santa Cruze General Assembly. Download a print version to hand out at your GA here.
NYC General Assembly Guide [PDF]
Find information on and a link to download a PDF version of the New York General Assembly Guide found on nycga.cc
General Assemblies
GENERAL ASSEMBLIES What are general assemblies? The General Assembly is a gathering of people committed to making decisions by working towards a collective agreement or “consensus.” It aims to facilitate discussion and getting to know…
Occupy Portland Open Consensus Process
Portland Open Consensus Process this live doc details the open consensus process designed by Occupy Portland, recently consensed and adopted by the Portland General Assembly.
THE HOLISTIC CATALAN COOPERATIVE
DOWNLOAD THE HOLISTIC CATALAN COOPERATIVE WHAT IS THE HOLISTIC CATALAN COOPERATIVE? It is a transition initiative that will allow us to build a lifestyle where neither the bank nor the state will be…
Mobile Tactics for Participants in Peaceful Assemblies
DOWNLOAD Introduction If you are participating in a peaceful assembly as a journalists, rights defender, or activists, your mobile phone is an invaluable asset. It allows you to communicate with allies, to document…
Making Decisions by Consensus
DOWNLOAD Guidelines for consensus building Be respectful and trust each other. Don’t be afraid to express your ideas and opinions. Don’t assume that someone must win and someone must lose. Look for the most acceptable solution for everyone. Think before you speak, listen before you object. Listen to others’ reactions, and consider them carefully before pressing your point. Remember that the ideal behind consensus is empowering versus overpowering, agreement versus majorities/minorities. What is consensus decision making? Consensus is a decisionmaking process that works creatively to include all the people making the decision. Instead of simply voting for an item, and letting the majority of the group get their way, the group is committed to finding solutions that everyone can live with. This ensures that everyone’s opinions, ideas and reservations are taken into account. But consensus is more than just a compromise. It is a process that can result in surprising and creative solutions often better than the original suggestions. At the heart of consensus is a respectful dialogue between equals, helping groups to work together to meet both the individuals’ and the group’s needs. It’s about how to work with each other rather than “for” or “against” each other. Making decisions by consensus is based on trust and openness – this means learning to openly express both…
Doing it without leaders
DOWNLOAD Introduction The alarm clock rings. Jump up, shower, dress, listen to the news of the day on the radio. Get irate: war in Iraq – no one’s asked me! Tax increase, yeah…
Consensus Flowchart
DOWNLOAD Consensus Flowchart www.seedsforchange.org.uk 2010 Step 1: Introduce and clarify the issue(s) to be decided Share relevant info. What are the key questions? Step 2: Explore the issue and look for…
A short guide to Consensus Decision Making
DOWNLOAD Consensus decision making is a creative and dynamic way of reaching agreement between all members of a group. Instead of simply voting for an item and having the majority of the group…
Consensus Decision Making
DOWLOAD In this consensus briefing: Pg.1 What’s wrong with democracy? Pg.3 Why use consensus? Pg.4 Conditions for consensus Pg.5 The consensus process Pg.6 The stages of consensus process Pg.6 Consensus flowchart Pg.12 Guidelines…
Micropoliticas de los grupos – para una ecologia de las practicas colectivas
DOWNLOAD Modo(s) de Empleo(s) Los y las que quieran continuar leyendo, desde otra vertiente, sobre la experiencia y/o alguno de los caminos que nos han llevado a este escrito, pueden ir a las…
Dinamizzazione delle Assemblee
Download here Proposta abbozzata per la dinamizzazione dell’Assemblea di Sol. Questo documento e’ stato elaborato dalla commissione di dinamizzazione delle assemblee della Acampada de Sol con una doppia finalita’: da un lato quella di favorire la rotazione dentro la propria commissione di dinamizzazione delle assemblee; dall’altro lato quella di proporre soluzioni pratiche e offrire un possibile modello di lavoro alle altre assemblee, commissioni o gruppi di lavoro che stanno nascendo. Questo documento intende chiarire anche che l’assemblea di Sol, nonostante il gran valore simbolico che le viene attribuito, rappresenta e decide in forma libera e indipendente sull’accampamento di Sol, e non pretende rappresentare nessun altro. Perdipiu’ incoraggia tutti coloro che vogliono decidere sui loro spazi di lavoro, quartieri, municipi o edifici, di organizzarsi in assemblea e di decidere loro stessi/e sulle proprie vite. Da qui non possiamo fare altro che offrire un modello di funzionamento costruito sulla pratica e affermare che e’ stato sperimentato in assemblee dai 20 ai 3000 partecipanti. In qualsiasi caso non si tratta di un modello chiuso, e invitiamo a tutte le persone a provare a migliorarlo, giacche’ e’ cosi’ che lo abbiamo sviluppato.Il concetto di assemblea Uno spazio dove si trasmettono informazioni e proposte per cercare di arrivare a un consenso. Il concetto di consenso Le assemblee di Sol si sono autodefinite come spazio di decisione basato sull’orizzontalita’ in cui non si vota ma si prova a forgiare un consenso….
Guía rápida para la dinamización de asambleas populares
Download here Texto realizado desde la Comisión de Dinamización de Asambleas del Campamento Sol (Madrid) a partir de distintos escritos y resúmenes consensuados en Asambleas Internas de dicha Comisión (que irán estando disponibles…
The Occupy Portland Model
http://www.occupytogether.org/2011/09/26/the-occupy-portland-model/ We’ve witnessed an exponentially growing list of communities that are banding together with our brothers and sisters on Wall St. by organizing solidarity actions in their cities. This rise in support has…
ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF BRUSSELS ASEMBLY
This document is a suggestion for identifying the types of activities taking place in Agora Brussels . It is not a closed or definitive document. It is open to anyone who wants to bring…
Occupy Together Field Manual
This is an excellent collective wiki for all occupy movements, but city-specific sub-categories are encouraged: Tips for starting your own Occupy Together Self-Sustaining Community for Long-Term Activism http://occupytogether.wikispot.org/
Guide rapide pour la dynamisation des assemblées populaires
Guide rapide pour la dynamisation des assemblées populaires Texte réalisé depuis la commission de dyamisation des assemblées du campement Sol (Madrid), à partir de différents écrits et résumés consensués au cours des Assemblées…
How to build constructive assemblies
Introduction This text is a synthesis of documents of methodology we analysed but it is also inspired by our experience built along the assemblies we collaborated from Barcelona to Brussels, passing by Lisbon…
Conducting People’s Assemblies
We recommend this approach to assemblies for non violent civil disobedient occupation actions, because the process respects individual free will and fosters affinity amongst participates in civil disobedience participants. We need each other in order…
Quick guide on group dynamics in people’s assemblies
Download here. DQuick guide on group dynamics in people’s assemblies This text has been prepared by the Commission for Group Dynamics in Assemblies of the Puerta del Sol Protest Camp (Madrid). It is…
