MXGM Self-Defence Manual

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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement March 2013
enemies/opponents
base and sources of
support (i.e allies)
Legal Advocacy
Alliance Building
Media and Public
Education
Challenge various
injustices via
domestic or
international legal
remedies
Build alliances or
fronts with
organizations that
share your
politics, program,
and principles to
move your
agenda, program,
and campaigns
Get the media to
cover your issues,
work, and
demands to
educate the
general public and
gain support for
the cause
Recruit
lawyers and
legal workers
to support the
organization,
its program,
and its
leadership
Build solid
relationships
with allies,
engaged in
joint work
based on
principle and
shared
interests
Develop inhouse
legal
analysis skills
and capacity,
make sure legal
workers follow
organizational
strategy
Members
trained and
prepared to
engaged in
relationship
building and
diplomacy
Skill
development
in how to
engage with
professionals
like lawyers
and
academics,
and
development
in legal
analysis, legal
proceedings,
and how to
serve as
plaintiffs, etc.
Skill
development
in how to be
diplomatic,
how to build
alliances, and
how to
develop
agendas,
facilitate
meetings, etc.
Skill
development
in writing,
doing media
work, and
public
speaking
Mass Tactics
Tactics are means of struggle employed in a campaign to achieve one’s strategic objectives.
What follows are some basic mass tactics that concentrate on non-violent and democratic
means of struggle to gain the greatest degree of support and engagement from the masses of
our people as is possible. These tactics can and should be employed to support our campaigns,
and when appropriate to demonstrate our power to the state and capital to force them to make
concrete concessions to meet our demands.
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