# Overview

#### Why community organising?

Community organising is what enables communities to put their ideas into action; it will enable you to shape your local community, and perhaps even the greater society, so that it responds to the needs and desires of the people. It is a way of organising and acting effectively, so that you have a say in how money is spent, can make the most of any grants available, and can even hold politicians to account. Organising effectively as a community and creating lasting change is incredibly empowering – it enables people to find and use their agency, to draw on their courage, and to understand that their views and voices matter. 

If we can come together to organise COVID-19 mutual aid projects, why not food, land and housing cooperatives? The climate crisis is real and our communities have to learn to adapt to a world in flux. That will only happen if we learn to work together. This is the moment to do exactly that. 

#### Useful Links

* Imagination aphrodisiacs:
	1. Sundial: [The Imagination Sundial](https://www.robhopkins.net/2020/06/30/introducing-the-imagination-sundial/)
	2. Guide: [XR Guide to the Impossible](https://rebellion.earth/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/XR-GUIDE-TO-THE-IMPOSSIBLE.pdf)

- Ideas for a new world:
	1. Stories: [21 stories of Transition](https://transitionnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/COP21_21_Stories_email_Eng.pdf)
	2. Platform: [The Alternative](https://www.thealternative.org.uk/)

- Building the New Economy: [Resource Library on starting a Cooperative](https://resources.platform.coop/topics/)

* Reclaiming Your Local Council:
	1. Guide: [Transform Your Local Council](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-LiGkjKeG7d3wImfTtbTow7eeHa8Gy5WRG5nsestd3M/edit?usp=sharing)
	2. Podcast: [Peter Macfadyen, former mayor, renegade, legend of local politics](https://www.dumbofeather.com/podcast/peter-macfadyen-former-mayor-renegade-legend-of-local-politics/)

- Take Direct Action:
	1. Reading list: [compiled by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination](https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/uploads/documents/SRG_Jordan_2010.pdf)
	2. Manual: [Earth First! Direct Action Manual](https://issuu.com/earthfirstjournal/docs/dam_3rd_edition)