Beautiful Rising

Beautiful Rising grew out of a book and web toolbox called ‘Beautiful Trouble’. The project, with its international network of artist-activist trainers, has a mission to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective. Much of the online material is crowd-sourced from across the planet. It is a wealth of thinking and tools for action – and you can choose to use it in Spanish.

In the Toolbox you will find

Theories such as…

• The Global South
• Al Faza’a (A Surge of Solidarity)
• Comunalidad (Communality)

Principles such as…

• Take leadership from the most impacted
• Would you like some structure with your momentum?
• Solidarity, not aid

Tactics such as…

• Divestment
• Training
• Jail solidarity

Methodologies such as…

• The Art of Hosting
• Narrative Power Analysis
• The Onion Tool

As well as lots of stories in which activists from all kinds of places share their learning. For example, this from Uganda in 2014:

“Key tactic: Creative disruption

By bringing an unruly beast into the halls of power, the yellow pigs protest shattered decorum, undermined authority, and caused a national scandal. But it was more than disruption for disruption’s sake; it was symbolically effective disruption informed by a sharp understanding of Uganda’s culture and ethics. There was no better symbol of corruption run amok at the highest levels of power than a greedy, cannibalistic pig painted in the ruling party’s colors scampering through the Parliament.”

The Art of Hosting? That sounds intriguing…

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