SAUL ALINSKY’S RULES FOR RADICALS
(reinterpreted and consolidated)
- Never go outside the experience of your people.
- Wherever possible go outside the experience of the adversary.
- Make the adversaries live up to their own rules.
- Ridicule is a potent weapon.
- A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
- A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
- Keep the pressure on.
- The threat may be more terrifying than the thing itself.
- The price of successful attack is a constructive alternative.
GENE SHARP’S METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION
I. Protest and Persuasion
II. Noncooperation
Social
Economic
Strike
Boycott
Political
III. Intervention
