Downloadable Resources
Welcome! This collection of organizing trainings, manuals, worksheets, and more is a labor of love put together by Power Shift Network members and allies.
PSN recognizes that young organizers, communities of color, low-income communities, and those most directly impacted by climate crisis need a baseline of theory and skills as a foundation for our justice movements. While capitalism perpetually suggests that competition is key, we know that to thrive, we must collaborate, pool our resources, and decentralize access to learning. So save your limited time and energy by uplifting the great work of your fellow leaders and utilizing their wonderful resources.
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Social Movements
Curriculum & Resource Bank
Looking at case studies from across the southeast u.s. at how art is used to create partnerships between community members and groups. Workshops on undoing racism and art and activism tools.
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Community Engagement
Mapping Our Futures: Economics and Governance Curriculum
Curriculum & Resource Bank
This curriculum explores our economic and governance systems through a participatory community-based process to create knowledge and share solutions that foster community, equity and healthy communities.
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Social Movements
Curriculum & Resource Bank
Brilliant training and learning series for understanding social movements, and how we can build one in this lifetime to confront the crises of this era.
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Community Engagement
Nexus Community Partners Institute for Community Engagement
Curriculum & Resource Bank
Resources (videos, case studies, assessment tools) about authentic community engagement practice with equity at the center.
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Political Education
Un-Censor Your News Media: Battling Propaganda and Finding Frontline News Sources
Curriculum & Resource Bank
This is a webinar for organizers and leftists on how to recognize imperialism news media for what it is and how to seek out sources from the people on the ground in other parts of the world.
As world leaders continue to wage war and battle over fossil fuels at the expense of the poor, they also work hard to craft their narrative of benevolence. Young people deserve access to honest, ethical, grassroots news reporting on global issues, and this training will provide you with both the analysis and hard skill of recognizing and avoiding propaganda.
This workshop is for you if:
- you want to write essays, op-eds, white pages, fact sheets, or create other content on world events and want to use ethical, grassroots sources for your reporting
- you don't want to fall for false solutions to climate change due to greenwashed propaganda
- you're on a political education journey and want to learn from outside of western/U.S.-centric perspective
- you want to have conversations with your community members about current events and want to pass along the skill of recognizing and confronting propaganda
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Climate Justice
Zinn Education Project: Teaching Climate Justice
Curriculum & Resource Bank
To address this gulf between the climate emergency and schools’ inadequate response, the Zinn Education Project has launched a campaign to “Teach Climate Justice.” How do we teach the climate crisis in a way that also confronts racism, economic inequality, misogyny, militarism, xenophobia, and that imagines the kind of world that we would like to live in?
We offer classroom-tested lessons, workshops for educators, and a sample school board climate justice resolution.