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Starting a Green Party Local
General Activism Resources
Effective Meetings
Tabling and Voter Registration
Working with Volunteers
Media
The Virtual Activist
Campus Organizing Guide
Research
Legal Guide for Non-Violent Protesters
Running a Campaign
House Party

Starting a Green Party Local or Organization
  • Guidelines for Building a Local in San Diego - this page is a manual for starting and building a new Green Local in San Diego County. It includes information about the process and the official documents required by the GPSD Bylaws.
  • Building a Green Party Local - Green Party of United States
  • Tools for Starting a Green Party Organization - Santa Cruz Greens

    General Activism Resources
  • Grass Roots Organizing Working Group (GROW) of the Green Party of California - A great source for Greens! Contains guides, tutorials, templates and samples on everything from tabling and phonebanking to issue-based organizing and electoral campaigns to governance and strategic plans.
  • Tools for Citizens - Some tips on how to make your voice heard politically
  • Activists Handbook - An introduction to becoming politically active.
  • Tools for Organizers, Activists, Educators, and Other Hell-Raisers
  • Community Toolbox -- Practical guidance for organizing in your community
  • Troubleshooting Guide -- Help with common problems in working for community change
  • Learning the Control Game -- Refernce guide for recognizing political/social control tactics by power brokers, large corporations, public relations firms, and government entities

    Effective Meetings
  • Agenda and Meeting Procedures of the Green Party - GROW Greens
  • The Consensus Process
  • Improve Meeting Attendance - Ventura Greens
  • Conducting Effective Meetings - Community Toolbox
  • Running a Productive Meeting - GROW Greens

    Tabling and Voter Registration
  • Voter registration guide - Ventura Greens
  • Voter registration tips - Humboldt Greens
  • Tips on Tabling - GROW (Grassroots Outreach Working Group); Green Party of California
  • Tabling on Campus - GROW (Grassroots Outreach Working Group); Green Party of California

    Working with Volunteers
  • Managing Volunteers - Ventura Greens
  • Getting People to Help
  • Getting People to Help II
  • Possible Positions for Green Party Volunteers
  • The Green Quiz: A Fun Organizing Tool - from Idaho Green Party
  • Setting up a Petition Drive - from Texas
  • Sample Phone Bank Script

    Flyers

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    Media
  • Dealing with the Media
  • Working with the Media - Humboldt Greens
  • Interacting with Reporters - Ventura Greens
  • Become the Media - GROW Greens
  • Writing Letters to the Editors - Ventura Greens
  • List of CA newspapers - Ventura Greens

    The Virtual Activist
  • Using Emails and Websites as tools for outreach and organizing. - Source: NetAction
  • Attract volunteers with your website - San Mateo Greens
  • Possible Volunteers Tasks on the web - Sonoma Greens

    Campus Organizing Guide
  • Campus Organizing Manual - from Campus Greens
  • Manual from Nader campaign
  • Get Out The Vote drive
  • Resources for Green Groups on Campuses - from Campus Greens

    Research
  • Researching Your Politicians -- Campaign contributions and voting records
  • Researching Corporations
  • Using the Freedom of Information Act
  • ACLU's Guide to Using the Freedom of Information Act
  • National Freedom Scorecard -- Find out how your members of Congress voted on key civil liberty legislation
  • Voter Information Services - Helping voters get beyond the sound bites since 1995

    Legal Guide for Non-Violent Protesters
  • Petitioning Rights in Public Places -- Action Center
  • Your Rights to Flyer in Malls -- Action Center
  • ACLU Pocket Card on Police Encounters -- Explains your rights when stopped by the Police
  • Exercising your Rights of Political Protest -- National Lawyer's Guild, DC chapter
  • Legal Observer Training Packet -- National Lawyer's Guild, DC chapter
  • A Legal Guidebook to civil disobedience - Source: Just Cause Law Collective

    Running a Campaign

    House Party
  • House party kit