Resource Type: Tips & How-Tos

This booklet aims to give people thinking about going to or organizing a protest information about best practices for interacting with law enforcement in-the-moment. Further, it can also help as advance information to consider in order to assess risk and prepare for possible police encounters. When you are protesting or having any interaction with law enforcement, asserting your rights does not usually mean that the police will respect your rights or change how they are treating you. However, by using your rights (by saying them out loud, as this booklet will teach you to do), you can make it harder for police to use your own statements or anything found on you during a search as evidence against you during a trial. Using this information could help your case later in court and, importantly, can help you protect your fellow activists.

From one perspective, we’re ending 2021 a lot like we started it. In a pandemic, experiencing one extreme weather event after another, and anxious over how power is being wielded in Congress and the White House.
At the same time, there have been a significant number of policy victories at all levels of government while new funding resources and new horizons in climate leadership are creating transformational shifts within the climate movement. Shifts that have the potential to unlock the people power we are going to need to win – and secure – the transition to a clean energy future that we all need. Below you’ll find summaries of key trends in the climate movement for 2021 – and some of the Best of the Lab from this year.

Confused about what the changes in the privacy settings of the iOS operating system and peer-to-peer text messaging rules (the so-called “10DLC” changes) mean for your email and texting work? Wondering about ways to move forward? No worries. We got you. This webinar will give you a clear explanation of what has changed and some clear action steps you can take to keep your email and texting work on track. Sandi Fox from Smart as a Fox will lead the texting section.

What is a strategy? How are your strategy and theory of change interrelated? How do you develop a power-building strategy?
In part 4 of our Power & Strategy training series, we spoke about all things strategy! We will be focusing on why having a power-building strategy is important and the steps to developing a transformative strategy. This training focused on:

Cover the basics of strategy – what it is, why it’s important, and its relationship to our theory of change and tactics

Give you some time to reflect on your current strategy and then share in small groups ​​

Share research on the importance of “strategic capacity” and the key capabilities necessary to build it 

An  “Organizing Pathway” provides a simple but effective structure for helping organizers combine in-person organizing with the reach and scale of digital tools. For UFR this has been central to their ability to unlock the power of their leaders at the scale needed to beat major corporations.