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
