strategize

Revisit the vision you established in the beginning of the shared analysis. Clarify and build how you will create change. Name the goals you want to achieve and how you will achieve those goals, what the vision will solve. Identify the challenges that this vision seeks to transform and name the root causes. Visualize the context. Layout the political, economic, social, and cultural challenges and opportunities in achieving the vision.

Do a power-mapping analysis. Identify the power structures in place that need to shift. Who or what is blocking this vision? What needs to happen for this to change? What policies are blocking this vision and need to shift?

tools

Click to read: Power Mapping Tools by Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE-LA). Image description: A protestor whose face is out of shot holds a cardboard sign that reads "planet over profit" which the word planet written i…

Power Mapping Tools

Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE-LA)

Click to read: Navigating with a Strategic Compass by Movement Strategy Center. Image description: A cardboard sign at a protest that reads "earth is more valuable than money" with a hand drawn picture of earth. The o in more drawn as a sun and the …

Navigating with a Strategic Compass

Movement Strategy Center

Click to read: Upside down power triangle by Training for Change. Image description: woman wearing red yells into the microphone of a bullhorn with her mask pulled down under face.

Upside Down Power Triangle

Training for Change

reflection

  • How are you disrupting racist power structures and dismantling white supremacy?
  • How does the strategy create opportunities to intervene on immediate challenges right now in your community, while creating the opportunities for long-term systemic change that meets your community vision?
  • Who are the unlikely allies you need to build with for your strategy to succeed?
  • What type of strategy are you building? Policy, political, funding, economic, cultural, or all of the above? How does each context shift who and where you start?
  • How are you planning on implementing your strategy? Is it possible in a particular timeline?

    • Next Steps!

    When you win: How are you prepared for push-back, retrenchment, or harsher attacks? How will you and the community sustain the win? Do you have people ready to move into positions of power to implement the wins?

    When you don’t win: If you lose the campaign or demand, what shifts can be made for the next effort?