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The Center's affiliate organization, Western State Strategies, is continuing our traditional work on campaign finance reform, supporting voter-owned elections and promoting a more transparent election system that expands democracy.
   
   
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  ORGANIZING - TOOLS AND RESOURCES  
     
  Western States Center has produced many tools designed to sharpen the organizing skills and political analysis of progressive leaders and grassroots groups. Organizing tools include base building and leadership development, the nuts and bolts or recruitment, issue identification and campaign planning and strategy development.  
     
 

Documents for Download:

  • Statewide Organizing - Statewide Organizing with Pride, an article outlining eight things organizer Laura Pierce learned while creating the Pride Statewide Network in Washington State.
 
 

 

 
 
 
     
 

Helpful Web Sites:

  • Activist Handbook - The articles in this handbook are republished from Activism 101 and the Freedom Writer and serve as a practical introduction to being politically active.
  • Just Cause Law Collective - Materials for activists from Just Cause Law Collective, which represents criminal defendants as well as victims of police misconduct.
  • NetAction's Virtual Activist Training Guide - An online toolkit that explains how to use the Internet for outreach and organizing.
  • Guide to Coalition Building - Cypress Consulting's guide to building and maintaining successful coalitions.