Level Up! Learn New Activist Skills

A comprehensive guide about different methods of activism, the history of activism, and much more; for individuals and groups to use.

A basic guide outlining some essential lock-on devices useful for NVDA and when to use them. ++ info on planning tree sits!

This UK banner drop toolkit
‘Bridges not Walls’ will guide you through organizing a banner drop using a bridge action example.

Blockades can be used to disrupt, but they can also be used to protect things which we don’t want to be destroyed, such as a protest camp, or an ancient woodland.

Watch this in-depth training and learn everything you need to know to plan and prep for your banner drop.

This manual is a basic yet comprehensive overview of scouting
techniques.

This toolkit will guide you through organizing a human banner, using the “I LOVE ARCTIC” action example.

Here are 10 useful knots to improve your life and boost your activist skills.

How to take a great action photo in 6 easy steps.

A guide to having effective face-to-face conversations with members of the public to promote your campaign.

These training slides will guide you through the importance of storytelling in building & winning campaigns.

Prepping for a media interview or planning for an action? Here are some tips to be ready for a media presence.

This guide is directed to Greenpeace volunteers, yet it will be useful to anyone new to blogging.

Getting media attention is a great way to have your campaign or action make a big splash. Here are some tools to do this.

Here’s a simple yet useful guide to writing op-eds & how to place them.

This detailed guide provides in-depth tips and tricks for participatory and empowering facilitation. Topics include structure, formats, power dynamics, conflict resolution icebreakers, and energizers, plus more.

Protests are erupting. Statues are coming down. But the time to become actively anti-racist was yesterday.

This quick guide was created to support activists in making their spaces more accessible. That is, to ensure everyone is welcome and encouraged to join movements in whatever way they can

Being an ally is about disrupting
oppressive spaces by educating
others on the realities &
histories of marginalized people.

Learn how racial justice, gender justice, and other social justice movements play a key role in achieving environmental justice.

Dive into this Beautiful Trouble toolbox, for an interconnected web of ideas and creative best practices that puts the power in your hands. Includes: stories, theories, methedologies, tactics & principals

These training slides aim to help you gain skills & learn justice-centered approaches to organize in diverse coalitions of allies.

A Greenpeace detailed guide to planning people-powered campaigns. Topics include: becoming engagement-centric, mobilizing, organizing & open campaigns.

Non-violent direct action (NVDA) is the single most empowering
campaigning tool at your disposal.

These protest tips are compiled from a US point of view, but we hope they are helpful wherever you are!

The main benefit of distributed organizing is that it unlocks significant amounts of people power. Find out how!

Your how-to guide to mobilizing, organizing, and resisting!

Here is a basic example of an information pack to present to marshals an hour or two before your planned event.

Check out this amazing resource for very important information on how to successfully marshal marches. It is also a great example of what type of information to provide your volunteers.

Working collectively? These slides go in-depth on a few key ways to build your group to build more people power.

These training slides reviews 8 basic steps to grassroots organizing and explores a winning campaign as an example.

This guide looks at the questions that need to be answered when we
transform from a series of unconnected individuals into a collective of people working together for change.

An in-depth guide is aimed at people & groups working for social change who want to develop an understanding of conflict & how to deal with it.

These training slides explore what it takes to really build grassroots leaders & how to effectively coach our peers and ask folks to take on leadership roles!

Whatever your group does, good meetings are vital to working together well. Meetings make
all the difference between a motivated & dynamic group or one feeling lethargic and lost.

A short guide to collaborative, consensus-based decision-making for activist groups, co-ops, and communities.

A down and dirty guide to leading ONLINE courses, trainings, meetings, and events.

These training slides guide you through 3 common decision-making models for people who are committed to working together.

A short guide to creating effective meeting minutes that are
straightforward to write and easy to use.

This fact sheet shares the Jemez Principles: 6 core values that emphasize the importance of inclusion and equity in the organizing process. 

By actively listening we can come to understand how the speaker feels about a subject or situation – we hear through their words
and tune into their underlying emotions, concerns and tensions.

This training recording will help you understand how to use power mapping to drive change.

Learn the basic steps to set up and prepare for a meeting with your federal MP using the Green New Deal as an example.

Film screenings can be a great way to increase people’s knowledge and awareness of an issue, in an enjoyable and non-confrontational way.  

This document goes beyond the basics and reviews important steps to event planning.  

Bird-dogging is a powerful tool for ensuring your concerns are heard, and that our political leaders aren’t dodging their responsibilities. This guide shows you how, using the Green New Deal as an example.

Phone calls are also a great platform to engage people in open-ended conversations of the sort which have been proven to change people’s minds. Find out more!

Learn how up to show up to the virtual appearances or events of elected officials, political candidates & other decision-makers to pressure them to do the right thing!

This online webinar was recorded to teach some basics in using social media for local activism!
Password: ReadyForAction

Using digital tactics can be impactful and have widespread appeal. These training slides will teach you the basics of planning a day of action on social media.

A short guide to making effective memes in 5 simple steps.

A detailed toolkit with many resources and examples to help people around the world create actions to push retailers, corporations, and businesses to reduce single-use plastics.

Everything you need to know about organizing a fundraiser for Greenpeace, plus tips and tricks to help you succeed!

Support for a Green New Deal is spreading! Together we can create an alternative path that meets the scale of the climate emergency. Get started using this guide.

An essential orientation guide for all Greenpeace Local Groups in Canada.

The classroom is a great place to start discussing plastic pollution and how to address it. This toolkit is designed for educators who want to inspire youth to tackle the plastic crisis.

An action toolkit with a menu of tactics to help cut off pipeline funding. #NotPipelines