Welcome! You’ve reached the most action-packed page on the web, full of wonderful materials for your campus/community organizing! This page is meant to be a grassroots hub, where you can find tips, tricks, downloads, and how-to-guides on everything from writing a press release to planning a nonviolent direct action.

How to Start a Chapter

• Four Simple Steps

Chapter Materials

• Dhondup Wangchen Petition

Campaign & Organizing Tools

• Strategic Planning

• The SFT Organizer’s Guide - A detailed booklet of tips on starting an SFT chapter and campaigning in your community. PDF, 4.1 MB (big file!). This is a few years old. An updated Organizer’s Guide will be available soon!
• Teaching Tibet hangout (pdf)

Direct Action Tips

• Introduction to Direct Action

• Ruckus Society Action Scouting Manual
  

• Activist First Aid

Legal Guides from the Midnight Special Law Collective

Know Your Rights (Dealing with Police) in pdf

Legal Support for a Small Action pdf

Fundraising

• Golden Rules of Fundraising

• 10 Easy Fundraisers

• Fundraising: Our Biggest Fear (and how to overcome it)

• Want to do a Benefit Concert?

Tibet and SFT Materials

• 10 Quick Facts on Tibet – Updated Pamphlet in PDF

• Tibet Facts Handout

• China’s Favorite Propaganda on Tibet…and Why it’s Wrong

• SFT Logo (Black and Red) (High Resolution)

• SFT Logo (Black and White)

• SFT Logo (Spanish)

• SFT Logo (Tibetan Flag Background)

Video Materials

-Right-click (control-click on Macs) the links and save to your computer.

• SFT Video

• Mount Everest Protest Video

• Great Wall & Beijing Wide Open Protest Video

• Leaving Fear Behind (200MB file) It takes a while to download, please be patient! SFT will soon have DVDs of the film available, contact gro.tebiteerfarofstnedutsnull@sngiapmac if you are interested.

Leaving Fear Behind is highly recommended! It is “a heroic film shot by Tibetans from inside Tibet, who longed to bring Tibetan voices to the Beijing Olympic Games.”

Media Skills

• SFT’s Media Strategy Guide for Protests and Actions

• How to Write a Press Release

• How to Write a Letter to the Editor

• How to Hold a Media Event

• How to Pitch Your Story

• Ruckus Society Media Strategy Manual

Sample Press Release

Sample Media Advisory

(remember to fill in your own content and contact info!! and yes, the “-30-” does have to be at the end, don’t ask us why…)

References

• Recommended Reads

• Films on Tibet

• Speakers on Tibet

• Links on Tibet