Resources for Organizing

A rich group of collectives, community organizations, and activists have crafted toolkits, brainstorms, testimonios, and how-to’s, creating an archive of resources for community-based responses to violence.  Here’s a beginning list.  If you have more resources, send it to us in comments.

Collections

• Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, co-edited by Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Alisa Bierria, and Mimi Kim. A special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order, Vol 37, No. 4 (2011-2012)
• The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence In Activist Communities, co-edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Published by South End Press, May 2011.

Testimonios, Brainstorms, & Discussions

• Transformative Justice Strategies for Addressing Police/Vigilante/Hate/White Supremacist Violence
  from event organized by Los Angeles Incite!/LA COIL/Youth Justice Coalition/Dignity and Power Now/ People’s Education Movement/CURB
• The StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) is a community project collecting and sharing stories about everyday people taking action to end interpersonal violence.  Listen to and share the stories. (Creative Interventions)
• INCITE! Working Document: Community Accountability Principles/Concerns/Strategies/Models
• INCITE! blog discussions

Toolkits & Tactics

• Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence
• Living Against Violence brochure (tips and tactics for challenging hate violence and staying safe from the police) (Audre Lorde Project Safe OUTside the System)
• “Taking Risks: Implementing Grassroots Community Accountability Strategies,” in Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology (CARA / Communities Against Rape & Abuse) (A discussion of how the ideas in this article was used in practice can be found in “In Our Hands: Community Accountability as Pedagogical Strategy” by Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo)

Community Curricula

• Building Violence-Free Communities; A Workshop by Escuela Popular Norteña

Street Harassment & Neighborhood-Based Strategies

• The goals of the Safe Neighborhood Campaign are to empower community members to prevent violence before it starts, intervene while violence is happening, and to build stronger relationships between LGBTSTSTGNC people of color, our allies, and the broader community. (Audre Lorde Project Safe OUTside the System)
• Sistas Liberated Ground, Sista II Sista
• Anti-Street Harassment Brochure, INCITE! DC

Work in Activist Communities

• The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence In Activist Communities, co-edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Published by South End Press, May 2011.
• Zine from The Revolution Starts at Home Collective: Confronting Partner Abuse In Activist Communities
• Community Accountability Within People of Color Progressive Movements (INCITE! and partners)
• Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements (by Courtney Desiree Morris)

 Fact Sheets & Public Statements

• INCITE! – Critical Resistance Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex
• Community Accountability Fact Sheet from the Stop Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color and Trans People of Color (INCITE!)

 Organizations, Collectives, & Contacts

• Audre Lorde Project Safe OUTside the System
• Creative Interventions
• Generation FIVE
• INCITE!
• Philly Stands Up
• The Revolution Starts at Home Collective
• Young Women’s Empowerment Project

This list is just a beginning!  Add more in the comments as we continue to expand…