ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on tactical diversity in organizing introducing the work of Gene Sharp. Drawing inspiration from the Center for Story-Based Strategy, the chapter uses their five points of intervention as an analytic framework—point of production; point of consumption; point of destruction; point of decision; and point of assumption. The choice of tactics emerges out of strategic planning and is informed by context, organizational capacities, power analysis, values, framing, and resources available. There are several types of tactics including negotiation and conflict transformation, direct action, resilience-based organizing, and cultural organizing. The chapter underscores digital forms of direct action, cooperative economics led by people of color and immigrants, and the historical threads of cultural organizing in the arts and music. Case studies include the Progressive Era tactical diversity of Jane Addams and the contemporary Oakland-based Moms 4 housing campaign.
