Tactics

• Advanced leafleting
• Artistic vigil
• Banner hang
• Blockade
• Creative disruption
• Creative petition delivery
• Debt strike
• Détournement/Culture jamming
• Direct action
• Distributed action
• Electoral guerrilla theater
• Eviction blockade
• Flash mob
• Forum theater
• General strike
• Guerrilla projection
• Hoax
• Human banner
• Identity correction
• Image theater
• Infiltration
• Invisible theater
• Mass street action
• Media-jacking
• Nonviolent search and seizure
• Occupation
• Prefigurative intervention
• Public filibuster
• Strategic nonviolence
• Trek

Theories

• Action logic
• Alienation effect
• Anti-oppression
• Capitalism
• Commodity fetishism
• Cultural hegemony
• Debt revolt
• Environmental justice
• Ethical spectacle
• Expressive and instrumental actions
• Floating signifier
• Hamoq and hamas
• Hashtag politics
• Intellectuals and power
• Memes
• Narrative power analysis
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• Pillars of support
• Points of intervention
• Political identity paradox
• Revolutionary nonviolence
• Society of the spectacle
• Temporary autonomous zone
• The commons
• The propaganda model
• The shock doctrine
• The social cure
• The tactics of everyday life
• Theater of the Oppressed

Principles

• Anger works best when you have the moral high ground
• Anyone can act
• Balance art and message
• Beware the tyranny of structurelessness
• Brand or be branded
• Bring the issue home
• Challenge patriarchy as you organize
• Choose tactics that support your strategy
• Choose your target wisely
• Consensus is a means, not an end
• Consider your audience
• Debtors of the world, unite!
• Delegate
• Do the media’s work for them
• Don’t dress like a protester
• Don’t just brainstorm, artstorm!
• Don’t mistake your group for society
• Enable, don’t command
• Escalate strategically
• Everyone has balls/ovaries of steel
• If protest is made illegal, make daily life a protest
• Kill them with kindness
• Know your cultural terrain
• Lead with sympathetic characters
• Maintain nonviolent discipline
• Make new folks welcome
• Make the invisible visible
• Make your actions both concrete and communicative
• No one wants to watch a drum circle
• Pace yourself
• Play to the audience that isn’t there
• Praxis makes perfect
• Put movies in the hands of movements
• Put your target in a decision dilemma
• Reframe
• Seek common ground
• Shift the spectrum of allies
• Show, don’t tell
• Simple rules can have grand results
• Stay on message
• Take leadership from the most impacted
• Take risks, but take care
• Team up with experts (but don’t become “the expert”)
• Think narratively
• This ain’t the Sistine Chapel
• Turn the tables
• Use others’ prejudices against them
• Use the Jedi mind trick
• Use the law, don’t be afraid of it
• Use the power of ritual
• Use your radical fringe to shift the Overton window
• We are all leaders

Case Studies

• 99% bat signal
• Barbie Liberation Organization
• Battle in Seattle
• Bidder 70 (Tim DeChristopher)
• Billionaires for Bush
• Citizen’s Posse
• Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
• Colbert roasts Bush
• Day care center sit-in
• Dow Chemical apologizes for Bhopal
• Harry Potter Alliance
• Justice for Janitors (D.C.)
• Lysistrata Project
• Mining the museum
• Modern-Day Slavery Museum
• Public Option Annie
• Reclaim the Streets
• Santa Claus Army
• Small gifts
• Stolen Beauty boycott campaign
• Streets into gardens
• Taco Bell boycott
• Tar sands action
• The Big Donor Show
• The Couple in the Cage
• The Nihilist Democratic Party
• The Salt March
• The Teddy Bear Catapult
• Trail of Dreams
• Virtual Streetcorners
• Whose Tea Party?
• Wisconsin Capitol occupation
• Yomango

Practitioners

• ACT-UP
• Adbusters
• April 6 Youth Movement (Egypt)
• Art and Revolution Collective
• Artist Network of Refuse and Resist!
• Bread and Puppet Theater
• Center for Tactical Magic
• Coalition of Immokalee Workers
• Conal, Robbie
• Deconstructionist Institute for Surreal Topology
• Design Studio for Social Intervention
• Diggers (new)
• Dominguez, Ricardo
• Earth First!
• El Teatro Campesino
• Ensler, Eve
• Fusco, Coco
• Gómez-Peña, Guillermo, & La Pocha Nostra
• Gran Fury
• Greenpeace
• Guerrilla Girls
• Hoffman, Abbie
• I Dream Your Dream
• Improv Everywhere
• Iraq Veterans Against the War
• Kaprow, Allan
• Krassner, Paul
• Lacy, Suzanne
• Ladies Against Women
• Lesbian Avengers
• Living Theater
• Los Angeles Poverty Department
• Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
• Operation SalAMI
• Orange Alternative
• Otpor
• Preemptive Media
• Provos
• Reverend Billy and the Church of the Earthalujah
• Schumann, Peter
• Sheehan, Cindy Lee Miller
• Situationist International
• Skaggs, Joey
• Snyder, Mitch
• UK Uncut
• Voina
• Washington Action Group (WAG)
• Women in Black
• Ya Basta Association
• Yes Men
• Zapatistas