Creative tools for a more just world…

 
 
 

Toolbox

Dive into the Beautiful Trouble toolbox, an interconnected web of ideas and creative best practices that puts the power in your hands. Start anywhere and explore…

 
 
 
 
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Stories

Accounts of memorable actions and campaigns, analysing what worked, or didn’t, and why.

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Tactics

Specific forms of creative action, such as a flash mob or blockade.

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Theories

Time-tested guidelines for how to design successful actions and campaigns.

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Principles

Big-picture ideas that help us understand how the world works and how we might change it.

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Methodologies

Strategic frameworks and hands-on exercises to help you assess your situation and plan your campaign.

 
 
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Trainings

Tap the Beautiful Trouble global network of seasoned trainers to up-skill your group in strategic planning, core organizing principles, and creative action design.

 

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Beautiful Solutions

 

Curating the most contagious solutions for a more just and sustainable world.

Assembled by our many movements for our many movements, Beautiful Solutions is an open-source toolbox of collective wisdom to help us create a world in which we have what we need to thrive.

 

The Latest…

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The Toolbox Case
The Toolbox Case

The case of Indian climate activist Disha Ravi should be ringing alarm bells far and wide. This young climate activist has been criminally charged and is being publicly vilified for the most basic forms of activism imaginable: collaborating with others in a Google Doc and a Whatsapp group on a toolkit for people wanting to demonstrate in solidarity with striking Indian farmers.

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Join the Climate Clock Team - 5 Positions Available
Jobs
Join the Climate Clock Team - 5 Positions Available
Jobs

Climate Clock is a collaboration between Beautiful Trouble and March for Science, powered by climate scientists, artists, educators, and activists across the world. Applications are open for five new positions.

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Jobs
The Beautiful Trouble Toolbox Like You’ve Never Seen it Before
The Beautiful Trouble Toolbox Like You’ve Never Seen it Before

At last (finally!), all the best tools from our books — sourced from frontline activists around the world — are now online, free, and available in five languages!

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Today was Caesar Chavez Day — we celebrate the essential work of agricultural workers and the bold, creative activism legacy of the United Farm Workers (UFW). UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta continues to advocate for farmworker rights and protections – including COVID vaccines. “Remember when you sit down to eat your dinner, and give a grateful thought to the farmworkers and keep praying for them that they will be respected the way they should be.” She offered her support for the Cancel the Contract campaign in Palmdale, California (https://cancelthecontract.com) which is calling for a “new vision of community safety and meaningful services for our students and the community.” And in Half Moon Bay, CA, local organization ALAS (Ayudando Latinos a Sonar) delivered lunch to farm workers throughout the coastside for Farmworker Gratitude Day. Lunchtime celebrations included live mariachi and ballet folklórico performances by youth in the community
“They are unarmed, but they are the true warriors.” (Burmese-American Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd, NYTimes) Young women are leading the anti-military occupation protests in Myanmar and women’s clothes are at the front lines. Women are using the junta’s superstition of female garments against them, creating barricades of hanging htamein and female longyi that create invisible walls and protect the streets from the military. These lines have successfully slowed down violent forces when physical barriers couldn’t. On March 8th— International Women’s Day— women across the country mounted lines of colorful htamein and some sanitary pads, establishing layers of civilian protection. RELATED STORY: Panty power TACTICS: Blockade Mass street action PRINCIPLES: Choose tactics that support your strategy Consider your audience Take risks but take care THEORY: Direct action Check out the Myanmar coup toolkit edition (now in Sets in Toolbox): https:/


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