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The Backbone Campaign specializes in the creation of spectacle imagery, innovative messaging and political theater. Most of our work involves what we call Artful Activism, in which we engage progressive activists and organizers in the strategic use of creative tactics such as festival arts, flash mobs, music and other theatrical forms of nonviolent direct action.
Trainer Roster
Meet our roster of amazingly gifted trainers! Backbone Campaign's expansive national network brings you into collaboration with some of the most talented and innovating practitioners of transformative social change and movement-building work. They are eager to share with you their years of insights and hard-won lessons learned. [We'll be posting more trainers and their bio's weekly]...
Training Coordinator
Affiliated Organization: Rising Tide, Civil Liberties Defence Center
Areas of Training: Strategic Campaigning and Avoiding Burnout, Direct Action Planning, Blockades, NVDA,
Non-traditional Allies, How to Organize Against Corporations, How to Start a Group, How to Run a Meeting, Climate Justice, Know Your Rights, Security Culture 101
Backbone Cofounder & Executive Director
Affiliated Organization: Backbone Campaign
Areas of Training: Strategy, Creative Tactics, Artful Activism, Media Messaging and Framing Issues, Organizing Community Solar, Organizing Credit Unions
Core Organizing Trainer
Affiliated Organization: Portland Rising Tide North, Portland Central American Solidarity Committee, Rose City Trainers Guild
Areas of Training: Introduction to Facilitation, Advanced Facilitation, Group Process and Structure, Consensus Decision Making, Story-Based Strategy, How to Use the Mainstream Media to Tell Radical Stories
Community Organizing Trainer and more
Affiliated Organization: Rising Tide North America
Areas of Training: Consensus Decision-Making, Facilitation, Strategic Campaigning, Community Organizing 101, Direct Action, Horizontal Organizing and Equalizing Airtime, Climate Justice 101, Abolishing Private Prisons
NVDA Trainer
Affiliated Organization: Cascadia Earth First!, The Trans and Womyn's Action Camp
Areas of Training: NVDA 101
NVDA and Climb Trainer
Affiliated Organization: Northern Rockies Rising Tide, Cascadia EF!
Areas of Training: Knotts 101, Climbing, Rigging, NVDA, Tripods, Banner Hangs
NVDA Guru
Affiliated Organization: Multi Kulti (Chicago)
Areas of Training: NVDA, Media, Tactical Communications, Expanding Allies, Security Culture, Cultural Competency
NVDA Trainer
Affiliated Organization: Occupy Rogers Park in Chicago
Areas of Training: Non-Violent Direct Action, Mass Mobilizations, Facilitation, and more.
Community Organizer
Affiliated Organization: SEIU and We Are Oregon
Areas of Training: Organizing Conversations, Building and Maintaining Organizing Relationships, Relational Canvas (Building Community One Door at a Time!), Campaign Strategy, Home Defense/Move-Ins in a Box
Community Organizing Trainer
Affiliated Organization: Itinerant Agitational Organizer
Areas of Training: Community Organizing, Organizing Spiral, Earned Media, Honest Conversations, Fundraising: Hard & Soft Money
Climb and Blockades Trainer
Affiliated Organization: Earth First Climbers Guild
Areas of Training: Climbing, Banner Hangs, Tripods, Blockades, Environmental Campaigning
Artful Activism & Imagery Construction Trainer
Affiliated Organization: Puppet Farm Arts and Backbone Campaign allied Artist
Areas of Training: Artful Activism, Puppet Building, Crafting Compelling Stories and catchy social justice oriented shanties!
Organizer, Non Violent Direct Action Trainer, and Artful Activism Innovator
Affiliated Organization: Heartland Coalfield Alliance
Areas of Training: Intro to Blockades, Advanced Blockades, Action Scouting, Giant Banner Building and Overpass Bannering, Action Planning, Know Your Rights, NVDA 101, Advanced NVDA, Community Organizing, Become the Media
Long-term Strategy and Community Organizing Trainer
Affiliated Organization: Liberation Learning and Campaign for Child Care Equity
Areas of Training: Organizing to Build Power, Community Organizing 101, Long-Term Strategic Planning