Activist Tools

Getting Started with Direct Action/Civil Disobedience

Here are some resources to get you started in your study about direct action and civil disobedience and its need in any social movement for the movement’s goals to be achieved.

Queer Rising Civil Disobedience Training and Meeting Materials

ACT UP Civil Disobedience Manual

Ruckus Society

Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience

Direct Action Groups

Here is a growing list of queer rights direct action groups. If none of these are in your area, start your own group! If you have a group and it is not listed here, add your group name and link to your group’s web presence in the comment box at the bottom of this page and we’ll update the list.

BY STATE

ARIZONA

Pheonix

H.E.R.O. Phoenix

CALIFORNIA

San Francisco

Gay Shame

FLORIDA

Orlando

Come Out Orlando

MASSACHUSETTS

Join the Impact Massachusetts