Overview
A French-language community-organising “boîte à outils” — the four-step campaign method, power analysis, schemas.
How it works
The Alinsky.fr Boite a outils is the French Alinsky-tradition community-organising toolbox site hosted by Alliance Citoyenne (see alliance-citoyenne) [src]. The site publishes schemas and downloadable explanations of community organising in French - the four marches du pouvoir citoyen (organiser - revendiquer - agir - negocier), the democratie d’interpellation frame, and the underlying argument that the State and the Market, by virtue of their structure and organisation, exert a stronger influence and decision power on society than civil society does [src]. The conclusion drawn is that community organising seeks to strengthen the power of civil society for a more balanced democracy [src].
Coverage is deliberately schematic: the Boite a outils publishes schemas that show the four steps of a campaign cycle, the identification of decision-makers, and the demands-vs-action balance; each schema is downloadable for use in a workshop or training context [src]. The schemas translate the American community-organising tradition into the French civic-society vocabulary and are designed to be teachable to a French audience without the listener having to know the history of Saul Alinsky [src].
A campaigner reaches for it when designing a French-tradition community-organising training, when teaching the four-step campaign cycle, or when needing a downloadable French-language schema for a workshop wall [src]. Treat as link-only. [src]
When to use it
Sourcing the French-language vocabulary for community organising; running a power-analysis exercise.
Related methods
- affinity-groups
- campaigns-vs-movements
- citizen-lobbying
- civil-resistance
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- incidencia-politica
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- pillars-of-support
- power-mapping
- public-narrative
- spectrum-of-allies
- the-campaign-cycle
- the-tactic-star
- theory-of-change
- three-and-a-half-percent-rule
Open questions
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