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STRATEGIC PLAYBOOK FOR FIGHTING MEGA-PROJECTS

If You Use It, Can You Help Pay For It?

Hey, I loved every minute of the No Games Chicago fight and was thrilled when we chased the Olympics from Chicago! I've maintained the NGC website ever since and I was thrilled to wirte the NGC story and to see it published. But, honestly, it will cost me more $ to do all this than I will ever see from book sales :) - so - how about making a non-deductible investment in this work via PayPal? Thanks!

Dontate Now!

the basics - get smart before you fight

MUNICIPAL BUDGETING

MEGA PROJECT BACKGROUND

MUNICIPAL BUDGETING

  • MRSC Introduction to Budgeting
  • Tips for Activists: Analyzing & Shaping Public Budgets - Download 4 page PDF
  • State Budget Basics
  • Defund the Police - BLM
  • Getting Data They  Don't Want You To Have - All About Filing FOIAs

OLYMPICS BACKGROUND

MEGA PROJECT BACKGROUND

MUNICIPAL BUDGETING

  • The International Olympic Committee
  • The Games - A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt
  • Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies by Lenskyj & Wagg
  • Understanding the Olympics by Horne & Whannel

MEGA PROJECT BACKGROUND

MEGA PROJECT BACKGROUND

MEGA PROJECT BACKGROUND

  • Mega-Events & Social Change, Spectacle, Legacy & Public Culture by Maurice Roche
  • The Mega-Event Syndrome by Martin Müller
  • Teaching about mega-sporting events & human rights by Daniela Heerdt
  • Mega-Sporting Events - Institute for Human Rights & Business

FRAMING & STORYTELLING

FRAMING & STORYTELLING

MEGA PROJECT BACKGROUND

Breaking the frame or dominant narrative of your civic opponent is a critical part of your strategy!

  • FrameWorks Institute
  • Storytelling & social change
  • Download PDF on storytelling for change
  • New Tactics for Human Rights - the Power of Narrative
  • Check out the Labor Community Strategy  Center in LA
  • Explore resources from the James & Grace Lee Boggs Center in Detroit


USING DATA FOR CHANGE

FRAMING & STORYTELLING

USING DATA FOR CHANGE

  • Visualising Information for Advoacy
  • Data Action - Using Data for Public Good
  • The Data Journalism Handbook
  • Thinking With Data - How to Turn 
  • Information into Insights
  • Explore the vast resources for tech & civics at Tactical Tech
  • Get training from Social Movement Technologies

ORGANIZING RESOURCES

FRAMING & STORYTELLING

USING DATA FOR CHANGE

  •  Get trained at The Midwest Acdemy in Chicago!
  • Playbook for Progressives - 12 Roles of the Successful Organizer by Eric Mann
  • Demand the Impossible - A Raodical Manifesto by Bill Ayers
  • Training for Change - resources, tools, workbook
  • Advocacy Framework, Choosing An Issue Guide
  • Online Activist Handbook
  • re:Power - training the next generation of organizers
  • Download The Organizer's Workbook from Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center

getting ready for your justice campaign - in private

RESEARCH

Deep research is required to build you case and inform your arguments and strategy.

  • In Illinois we use the Sunshine Database to research campaign contributions
  • Chapter 12 - The Research
  • Research on IOC - Chapter 5, Chapter 6
  • Research on Chicago 2016 - Chapter 4, Chapter 7, Chapter 10, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 25
  • Even after the victory, gather your evidence - Olympics always go over WAY over budget

WHO WILL FIGHT WITH YOU?

Find your allies. Who will be hurt by the thing you are fighting? Who will win if you win? Who are your opponents?

  • Chapter 21 - All the "wimps" of the Bid SHOULD HAVE been allies
  • Chapter 22 - The funders of the thing you are fighting must be exposed
  • "Collaborating for Equity & Justice: Moving Beyond Collective Impact" from Nonprofit Quarterly

PREPARE INFRASTRUCTURE

PREPARE INFRASTRUCTURE

Before going public you need...

  • A website - NGC used BlueHost
  • A mailing list tool - NGC used Constant Contact
  • A way to accept donations - NGC used PayPal
  • Use an online petition tool
  • Estabish your social media accounts - NGC on Facebook

going public - LAUNCH YOUR CAMPAIGN & BUILD POWER TO VICTORY

MESSAGING

GROUND GAME - VISIBILITY

COMMUNICATE TO TARGET

  • Develop a powerful, concise, consistent message
  • Develop, pass out, test, refine handouts, graphics, flyers
  • No Games YouTube channel
  • No Games audio channel
  • No Games on Facebook

COMMUNICATE TO TARGET

GROUND GAME - VISIBILITY

COMMUNICATE TO TARGET

In the case of NGC, communications to the Target, the IOC, were as a trusted and needed source of valuable information.

  • The Book of Evidence
  • Materials delivered to the IOC in Switzerland, June 2009
  • Emails to the IOC 70 days leading up to Decision Day, October 2009
  • Materials delivered to the IOC in Denmark, September 2009

GROUND GAME - VISIBILITY

GROUND GAME - VISIBILITY

GROUND GAME - VISIBILITY

Modern organizing must include old school rallies, protests, marches, and disruptions.

  • MoveOn Rally Organizing Guide
  • Activist Handbook - How to Organize a Protest
  • April 2009 rally materials
  • NGC attended all 50 ward meetings
  • NGC Rally at City Hall, 9/29/09

CREATIVITY & DRAMA

ACKNOWLEDGE, CELEBRATE & DOCUMENT

GROUND GAME - VISIBILITY

Fighting City Hall with volunteers and few allies requires creativity, drama, and flexibility!

  • NGC goes to the IOC's HQ in Switzerland! Chapter 14, Chapter 15
  • NGC goes to Copenhagen, Demark!
  • NGC used humor extensively to get attention & score points
  • Tools/resources for creativity & social change

REACT SWIFTLY, SPEAK POWERFULLY

ACKNOWLEDGE, CELEBRATE & DOCUMENT

ACKNOWLEDGE, CELEBRATE & DOCUMENT

A disciplined, well planned, and staffed camapign is prepared to take advantage of stumbles and actions by the opponent.

  • NGC scorns City Council naming Alderman Burke as overseer
  • NGC issues response to whitewash review of Chicago 2016 Bid
  • Evaluate everything you do and adjust as you need to

ACKNOWLEDGE, CELEBRATE & DOCUMENT

ACKNOWLEDGE, CELEBRATE & DOCUMENT

ACKNOWLEDGE, CELEBRATE & DOCUMENT

Teamwork makes the dream work so lift up the voices and efforts of your team and allies. Celebrate progress and wins! Please do document and share your hard won knowlege.

  • "Thanks, No Games!"
  • "The Voices of Protest"
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