How to Grow a Movement: Tips for Activists & Organizers
Channel: LuckyBlackCat
Date: 2021-03-27

My guest appearance on the Aktion Show, a weekly livestream about praxis and direct action on the channel NonCompete. We discuss advice that is useful for any organizer or activist, tips to help your organization or movement grow in both size and active participation. 

This advice draws from two sources: 

1. Social psychology 

2. Real life examples of successful mass movements and organizing campaigns 

In terms of real life activist struggles, we discuss lessons from the Quebec student strike of 2012, a labor union struggle by hotel workers in San Francisco, and a struggle against a predatory landlord by Seattle Solidarity Network.

Whether you’re organizing a workplace or neighborhood, a labor union or tenant union, a mutual aid network or environmental defense or anything else – even trying to build a mass movement – this advice can help. 

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0:00 Intro
2:20 Aktion Show: Pre-presentation chat
4:03 Aktion Show: Main presentation / discussion
1:23:16 Aktion Show: Post-presentation chat
2:11:22 Outro (CHANNEL UPDATE)

Link to this livestream on NonCompete’s channel: https://youtu.be/sh_v0jrw0i8

Check out my other videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpgXZBN8fmc0t-rRGgKwDYfkBNSd8jYDS 

Playlist of my Radical Responsibility video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpgXZBN8fmc1YlYFps-K_AFtd47JsKIpu

Say hi to me on twitter: https://twitter.com/1luckyblackcat

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SOURCES

(Sources in academic journals can be read FREE at https://sci-hub.do )

• Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, eds. Roy F. Baumeister, Kathleen D. Vohs
• Pascual, A.; Guéguen, N. (2005). “Foot-in-the-door and door-in-the-face: A comparative meta-analytic study”. Psychological Reports 96: 122–128. doi:10.2466/PR0.96.1.122-128
• Sherman, S. J. (1980). On the self-erasing nature of errors of prediction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39(2), 211–221. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.39.2.211 
• CLASSE, “Organize to strike, fight to win! Quebec’s 2012 student strike” https://libcom.org/library/organize-strike-fight-win-quebecs-2012-student-strike
• (Hotel workers union struggle described in…) A Troublemaker’s Handbook 2, by Labor Notes https://labornotes.org/store/troublemakers-handbook-2
• Seattle Solidarity Network, “Building a solidarity network guide” https://libcom.org/library/you-say-you-want-build-solidarity-network 

LEARN MORE

• Libcom Organise guides https://libcom.org/organise 
• List of learning resources on workplace organizing (can be applied to other types of organizing) https://www.reddit.com/r/IWW/comments/h89e4n/a_list_of_learning_resources_on_workplace
• Channels with videos on organizing include 
Alki https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfHdFGB7IdhfTd07jsdoJA
Another Slice https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJzZZa-M6H52uDym0Rqzlnw
This organizer training video by Labor Kyle https://youtu.be/ewDeJwMJG28
The video I mentioned by Libertarian Communist Platform https://youtu.be/jmYbN57hoK8
My video on workplace organizing for reform and revolution https://youtu.be/tKmIlAMIznQ

MUSIC CREDITS

• Victim to Victor (RKVC)
• MydNyte (Noir Et Blanc Vie)