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Tactician

You need to act — this week, with the people and time you actually have. This path routes you to concrete action forms and the craft of running them, not to long-arc theory (that lives in the Strategist path).

Start here

  1. Nonviolent direct action — the family of tactics you’re choosing from, and what each one asks of you.
  2. Action planning — turn an idea for an action into a run-of-show that won’t fall apart on the day.
  3. Affinity groups — the small-team structure that keeps an action safe, disciplined, and repeatable.
  4. Escalation — how to sequence tactics so pressure builds instead of peaking too early.
  5. Spectrum of allies — before you pick a tactic, know whom it moves and whom it hardens.

Core path

Pick a form, plan it, staff it, and know when to raise the stakes. Work the tactic pages in the index below alongside the worked examples in examples by tactic — each case study shows the tactic in a real campaign with its outcome.

Adjacent modes

  • Strategist — when “what do we do next” keeps hitting “but what’s the plan?”
  • Comms — when the action’s power is the story it tells.
  • Coalition — when the action needs more organisations than yours.

When you’re stuck

If a tactic keeps stalling, the problem is usually upstream: unclear target (→ power mapping), no theory of change (→ theory of change), or allies you assumed but never organised (→ spectrum of allies).

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