Organizing Strategy

Organizing Strategy & Training Materials

There are endless ways to organize, each determined by the material conditions of the situations you are organizing in and the people you are organizing with. Here is a collection of any information relevant to organizing and educating about how to organize in general.

It is important that you evaluate the specific conditions that each council is organizing under, as some tactics may have blow-back.

TANC Guides & Training Materials :

Pandemic Organizing Guide in English : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1osMMHmOn3nyhx3Or4HzKtRaeaRAyEDwnQRAtVDgt47c/edit#heading=h.e0i5ydjox93m

Pandemic Organizing Guide en Español. : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cifdz75LLEYtFyJMiZ-sb7_Go0s38y0Uhh-mGFXe3Dc/edit

COVID19 organizer training presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zyMeQ2YUXDYNI6NlpnNhWSGw3lPLxno7kQZRNcZpNco/edit#slide=id.g71e7b9157d_0_6

Organizer Training Basics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RAbyNAWWTIlbCP1SFCCGjwMZPAzSP-KNHvbo9W07vx8/edit?usp=sharing

COVID19 Organizer Training Agenda 3.24.20 (good example training agenda) : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dK1o0qIk6hD3fZu_akq6jUxCO7CMXHSdnREIG8RFsmc/edit?usp=sharing

"Solidarity Is Our Weapon" escalation guide in English: bit.ly/TenantCouncil

Guide on how to do TANC calling (pandemic version but adaptable for general use) English / w Spanish example script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GAg0L2DfQh8qixA9J7m-qVyFNtM47YoD2eyXdHvG-Pw/edit?usp=sharing

Tenant One on One Conversation Rap: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ITuGJd5mQjdRHXixSjRMZzRcndW_8ssYDhWiRZ_352k/edit?usp=sharing

Other People's Guides and Training Materials:

Philly Tenants Union covid-19 organizing guide (info on 1-1 convos, leadership identification, tenant mapping, achieving demands, escalating actions & more): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mulQjigU62SOviBuL-3EKpqnb2csoet-PjGqAnhclxM/mobilebasic

Original Stomp Out Slumlords strategy doc & description: https://www.stompoutslumlords.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Anti-Eviction-Operations-Manual-10.17.pdf

Update report from SOS (see “Second Adaptation” for info about organizing *at* court): https://www.stompoutslumlords.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/April-Update.pdf

Revolutionary Tenants Association Organizing Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EKEbdNkdW0i55oZ2Rqu0qd6i-hLwR9gHCllu1t6-_W0/edit

On escalation : https://www.labornotes.org/sites/default/files/52TurnUpTheHeat_0.pdf