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CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS ARSENAL
 Conventional Weapons Arsenal contains classic knowledge on non-violent struggle.
The tools offered herein represent a collection of various articles either available on different web-sites or materials collected using other means by Canvas Research Squad.
Please note that Canvas Staff are NOT the authors of ALL the articles available below, but only those specified"by Canvas".
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Problem description:
- List of problems in planning and performing a nonviolent campaign -
A. BUILDING
1. How to start a group which is going to be the core of your future movement?
2. How to increase the number of activists?
3. How to build up a strong movement?
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How to secure access to critical material resources?
B. COMMUNICATION
5. How to communicate with wider audience?
6. How to let the world know about your message?
C. ACTION
7. When and How to organize the demonstration?
8. How to plan and organize public events and campaigns?
| Problem 1: |
| How to start a group which is going to be the core of your future movement? |
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| Gather people together, reach a consensus, then focus on strategic planning. |
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Stages in the formation of groups & teams
by SRDS
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SRDS manual offers you a knowledge on different models and stages in early phase of developing your future core of Nonviolent Movement. |
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Campus Organizing Guide
by Center for Campus Organizing
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Students as a trigger - like the nonviolent movements in Burma, China and Serbia, you should think on starting your movement focused on students. This Guide offers you basic knowledge on starting a group at Campus, and develop it towards an active cell. |
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Organising Guide - How to Start a Group
by Canvas
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Starting a group - short but useful thoughts on deciding, analysing and budgeting a small group of activists. |
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 CANVAS Beginner's Warning!
Always reconsider possibility to join or at least co-operate with existing groups. Since Roman Empire's "divide et impera" (divide and conquer) rule was the favourite scenario for non-democratic regimes worldwide. |
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| Problem 2: |
| How to increase the number of activists? |
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| Recruit and train in order to upgrade your human resources base. |
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Volunteer Management
by Regan McClure
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Why do people volunteer - offers you a knowledge to understand your target group and approach potential activists efficiently. |
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Recruitment and Outreach Manual
by Community Action Training
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Recruitment and Outreach manual offers you a knowledge on best spent 30 minutes in making your movement stronger - how to decide on outreach and recruitment. |
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Why to Recruit?
by PCYF
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Why to recruit - a complete manual on recruitment, gaining leadership and planning actions with new activists in PCYF Manual. |
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Building your Membership and Support Base
by Canvas
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Building your membership and support base - offers you a knowledge how to keep a track on your new members, and use their time in the best interest of your movement. |
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Mobilization Kit - Volunteers
by Peace, Earth & Justice
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Manage your new army! This mobilization kit offers you a knowledge how to keep your new activists active and content, in order to upgrade their enthusiasm for your struggle. |
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| Problem 3: |
| How to build up a strong movement? |
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| Building the grassroots organization brick-by-brick. |
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Manual for Party Building
by NDI
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NDI Manual for Party Building offers you a knowledge to build up your organization in order to perform political battle and win seats in the parliament. |
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Resistance in the Neighbourhood
by Otpor
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Resistance in the Neighbourhood manual offers you a knowledge of inventive and superior network building model successfully applied in nonviolent triumph in Serbia 2000. |
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Activist Tool Kit
by Peace, Earth & Justice
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Mobilization Activist Tool Kit offers you a detailed knowledge on principles of building up your organization regarding both Human Resources and Authority. |
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How to secure access to critical material resources? |
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Cultivate external help and learn how to fund raise. |
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Canvas Total Index - Critical Resources
by Canvas
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 READ THIS FIRST!
This document is a MUST READ FIRST - it contains Canvas Total Index of Critical Resources. |
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Basic Elements of Grant Writing
by Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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Basic elements of grant writing guide offers a knowledge to build a basic skills to present your needs in the written form. |
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Fundraising Resource Materials
by
Peggy Mathews
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Where to find the money and knowledge how to get to it?
A complete index of organizations and institutions related to grants. |
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Fundraising
by PCYF
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This basic guide for Fundraising offers you a knowledge on how to calculate inputs and outputs and balance your movements budget. |
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Developing and Writing Grant Proposals
by US General Services Administration
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How the Americans do it? This guide offers you a step by step development tool for your material resources requiring documents. |
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Grant Proposal Self Assessment Tool
by U.S. Department of Energy - CAO
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Grant SAT is an outstanding tool for evaluating, and hence improving, each section of your grant proposal. |
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Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal
by S. Joseph Levine, Ph.D.
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Writing the grant proposal offers you a knowledge on successful structure of your grant proposal, including blank example patterns. |
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| Problem 5: |
| How to communicate with wider audience? |
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| Defining your message. |
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What is a Message?
by J. Brian O' Day
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What is a Message offers you a knowledge to understand the importance of message and avoid communication pitfalls in the very beginning of your message creating process. |
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Message Development & Delivery
by NDI
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NDI Manual for creating and staying on your message offers you a knowledge on rules in defining your target group and making effective message. |
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CANVAS Message Warning!
First define your target group, then the message. At the end decide on the ways to distribute it (messenger defining process). Message development process also requires a constant feedback from your target group. |
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| Problem 6: |
| How to let the world know about your message? |
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| Build your communication strategy. |
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Canvas Total Index - Communications With a Wider Audience
by Canvas
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READ THIS FIRST!
This document is a MUST READ FIRST - it contains Canvas Total Index of Communication Tools. |
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Let the World Know - A Beginner's Guide to Getting Media Coverage
by NDI
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Let the World Know - A Basic Beginners Guide offers you a knowledge how to create news, and get free media coverage for your message-sending activities. |
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Communications and Policy
by Peace, Earth & Justice
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This manual offers you a knowledge that will make it more easy for you to understand your target groups. |
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Eleven Steps to Organizing a Media Event
by Jason Salzman
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Eleven Steps - technology device for the complete process - from refining your message to archiving your press coverage reports. |
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Media and Press Releases
by Canvas
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A useful device for your communication with the media. |
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Tips on Giving Speeches & Presentations
by Canvas
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Canvas Tips on Giving Speeches and Presentations offers you a knowledge on mostly verbal message sending skills. |
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Say it on the Radio
by Skipp Porteous
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Say it on the Radio manual offers a knowledge how to use the radio - an old, but still very powerful tool, which has been highly underestimated in this television ruled century. |
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| Problem 7: |
| When and How to organize the demonstration? |
| Response/Solution: |
| Picking the right time and the place with a proper campaign for the demonstration, and get prepared for your opponents violent response. |
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Planning the Demonstration
by the Mass Defense Committee
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Planning the demonstration guide offers you a knowledge to important issues to be reconsidered in deciding on HOW and WHEN to protest. |
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Event Planning Made Easy
by Mary McGhee
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Event planning made easy helps you to decide on target group your demonstration are addressing to, and practical knowledge how to plan your mass events. |
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At the Demonstration
by Mass Defense Committee
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Offers you experience on how to behave at the demonstration based on the US case studies. |
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You are Under Arrest
by Ronald Kuby & William Kunstler
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How to behave under the threat of being arrested during the demonstration. |
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An Activists' Guide on Basic First Aid
by Canvas
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Arms you with the knowledge on how to deal with injuries, tear gas and how to organize your demonstrators in situation of possible demo break-up. |
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CANVAS Demonstration Warning!
The value of demonstration as a method of nonviolent struggle is often misunderstood, if not fit within a wide strategy. Demonstration message is often just a number (of present protesters), which is more likely to be below the organizer's expectation, while the visual message is VIOLENT CONFLICT (for some reasons photos or videos of police brutality and few demonstrators throwing bricks are mostly the choice of media editors).
 CANVAS DEMO REPORT! Click here to send article or pictures of important demonstration taking part at your battlefield now! |
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Canvas Total Index - Symbolic Public Acts
by Canvas
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READ THIS FIRST!
This document is a MUST READ FIRST - it contains Canvas Total Index of Symbolic Public Acts. |
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Planning a Campaign -
Know Your Terminology
by Canvas
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Learn about language used in organizing events and campaigns first. |
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Event Planning Made Easy
by Mary McGhee
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Event planning made easy helps you to decide on target group your demonstration are addressing to, and practical knowledge how to plan your mass events. |
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Title:
Eleven Steps to Organizing a Media Event
by Jason Salzman
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Eleven Steps - technology device for the complete process - from refining your message to archiving your press coverage reports. |
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Steps to making a Campaign
by Act Up
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Offers you a knowledge how to guide your movement towards the campaign |
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Organize to Win
by Jim Britell
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Jim Britell teaches you on ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNS. |
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The SOA Watch Handbook for Non-Violent Action and Civil Disobedience Training
by SOA
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The SOA Watch Handbook offers you a knowledge of Step by Step Escalation in a Nonviolent Campaign. |
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Political Campaign Planning Manual
by NDI (J. Brian O'Day)
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Campaign must-have - a complete manual for planning, building and performing politically target campaigns by NDI Moscow . |
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