Welcome to the Lynn Williams Activist Toolkit, an exciting new project of rabble.ca currently in Beta. The Toolkit is a wiki-style section of the rabble site devoted to content collaboration. It contains a growing number of encyclopedic resources that you can write. The Toolkit is named after activist, organizer, and labour leader, Lynn Williams, whose commitment to social justice has inpired generations of United Steeworker activists. Read more about Lynn Williams here. Participate in the Toolkit! See our User Guide, and please check out the toolkit blog and podcast.
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Guides
Publishing a zine
A guide to crafting your own zine and getting it out into the scene
Guides
Campus and community radio
How to start your own radio show.
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Collective bargaining
A guide to collective bargaining that can be used by unions or workers.
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Consensus decision making
How to use a consensus decision making model
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Conducting interviews
A guide to interviewing someone for your column, show or broadcast
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Public outreach for activists
How to do public outreach and get noticed
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Solidarity activism
How to be an effective solidarity activist or ally
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Interacting with police
How to interact with the police at a protest
Software
M-Lab ISP throttling detector
the ISP throttling detector is an online tool developed to counter the abuse of Net Neutrality by Internet Service Providers
Software
Internet Traffic Report
The Internet Traffic Report is a site that monitors latency and connectivity between the major internet nodes around the world
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FreeMind
FreeMind is free mindmapping software released under the opensource GPL license
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Elgg
Elgg is an open source social networking platform
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Zotero
Zotero is an extension for the Firefox web browser that allows for research citation when writing articles online
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TXTmob
TXTmob is a mass SMS tool that allows users to share information via cell phone text messaging
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Firebug
Firebug is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox broswer that functions as a web development tool
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Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha is an online computational knowledge engine that went live in May 2009
Guides
Conflict mediation
A guide about how to resolve conflicts while organizing
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Wiser Earth API
OpenWiser is an online fundraising tool supporting the wiserearth.org wiki project
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Internet Archive
the Internet Archive indexes webpages so that a global snapshot of the web as it is now will exist for future generations
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WikiLeaks
Wikileaks is a user-contributed site that publishes anonymous submissions of sensitive government or corporate documents
rabblepedia
Distributed Library
A distributed library is a free, decentralized, grassroots library system with an online catalog that is co-operated by its members
Software
DIY Instructables
An incredible site full of user-submitted DIY/How-To Guides
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Dim Dim
DimDim is a web conferencing tool with A/V sharing capabilities
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You Convert It
Convert any audio/visual/text file to any desired format and send the output wherever you like
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Widg-i-pedia
Widgipedia is a comprehensive database of widget tools
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The Scientific Commons
The Scientific Commons is the world's first and largest publicly searchable archive of scientific journal articles
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Wikimapia.org
Wikimapia is a satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki
On This Day
Washington IMF/World Bank Protests
On This Day in 2000
Guides
Media release
An activist's guide to planning, writing, and distributing a news release for their organization
rabblepedia
Wiki
A wiki is a piece of software designed to facilitate the creation of collaborative websites

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