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Student Chapter Organizing Manual Peace Action Fund of New York State Peace Action New York State Student Chapter Organizing Manual Peace Action New York State • Church St. Station, P.O. Box 3357 New York, NY 10008-3357 646-723-1749 • www.panys.org • [email protected] twitter.com/PeaceActionNY • facebook.com/PeaceActionNY Peace Action Fund of New York State Peace Action New York State Table of Contents Welcome Letter 2 About PANYS 3 – 5 PANYS Staff and Board of Directors 6 – 7 Chapter Contact Info 8 Forming a PANYS Student Club – Constitution Outline 9 – 12 Fact Sheets Nuclear Weapons 13 – 14 War in Iraq & Afghanistan 15 Military Recruitment 16 Student Organizing – Getting Started 17 Student Outreach 18 A Guide to Holding Your Interest Meeing 19 Sample Agenda 20 – 21 Capacity Mapping on Your Campus 22 – 23 What Makes an Effective Flyer 24 – 25 Club Meeting Exercises 26 Event Organizing & Fundraising 27 – 32 Important Films to Watch 33 – 34 How to Take Political Action 35 – 38 Petition Help 39 – 40 Know Your Media! 41 PANYS Merchandise Info 42 Useful Sites to Check Out! 43 Addendum 44 Shut Down Indian Point! 45 Cost of War Awareness Project 46 Peace Voter Campaign 47 Calendar of Events 48 Club Submission Form 49 1 Peace Action Fund of New York State Peace Action New York State Welcome! Hello Organizers and Student Activists! This is the Peace Action New York State (PANYS) Student Organizing Manual to help you in your organizing adventures. We have included information about Nuclear Disarmament, Military Recruitment, and the Cost of War and ongoing conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. This information provides educational background on Peace Action’s views and will help you to be more informed when you are organizing. We have also included contact information for our current chapters as well as tips for how to start organizing. If you already have a group of people together, we hope the information on event planning and outreach will be useful. We have also included a piece on reflection, a very important but often forgotten component of any event. In order to grow, it is important to look at the work that has been done, celebrate the successes, and discuss what can be done in the future to continue to improve and address people’s concerns. Finally, we have included information about legislative lobbying and current PANYS campaigns. These campaigns are a good platform for you to reflect, educate, and speak out about the kinds of issues you are passionate about. The last section of this guide is a list of upcoming events related to peace and nuclear-safe issues. Successful organizers and activists always know what’s going on around them in relation to their cause, and how to get involved in the actions and events of other like-minded organizations. We encourage you to stayed informed on local and regional events by working together and keeping in touch with your local Peace Action chapter. Grassroots organizing is not an easy endeavor; however, when done right it can have immense effects. For examples of successful campaigns, just look at our Getting Started page. In grassroots organizing, it is important to remember that growing a movement and effecting change is a process (see p.16). Holding events makes people become more interested in the movement, more informed, and more likely to join and eventually become leaders. Sounds simple, but growing a movement is anything but. A lot of hard work leads to sometimes seemingly small results. However, it is important to remember that every conversation you have, event you host, and person you reach out to is a step to reaching your goals. If you manage to reach out to just two people, and that person reaches two people, and so on, the organization and movement will grow exponentially. Let’s Get Started! 2 Peace Action Fund of New York State Peace Action New York State About Peace Action New York State (PANYS) Who we are… Peace Action of New York State and the Peace Action Fund of New York State are the New York affiliates of Peace Action, the largest grassroots peace organization in the country. The Peace Action Fund of New York State Peace Action is dedicated to promoting the non-violent resolution of conflict, the abolition of nuclear weapons, halting the global spread of conventional arms, building a human rights culture and supporting human needs instead of militarism. We pursue these goals through the production and dissemination of educational materials for the public, activists and policy makers, as well as through community organizing initiatives and public outreach. The Peace Action Fund of New York State is a non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)3 organization. Peace Action New York State Peace Action New York State is a 501(c)4 membership organization that uses lobbying and direct political action to complement the work of the Peace Action Fund of New York State. We currently have eighteen chapters and over 3000 members in New York State. As we are a grassroots organization, our local chapters take a large lead in determining our agenda. Each chapter works on local peace issues as well as state, national and global concerns. For more information about chapter projects, please refer to our chapters list (see p. 8) and visit their individual websites. NY-SPAN (New York - Student Peace Action Network) NY-SPAN is a coalition of Peace Action student chapters throughout New York State dedicated to empowering student advocates to take action on issues of peace and justice. Through education, grassroots organizing, and action campaigns, we work to promote informed student activism on campus and build leadership among young people in the peace movement. Broome County Peace Action Chenango Peace Action Dutchess Peace Coalition Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace Great Neck SANE/Peace Action No War Westchester Peace Action Bay Ridge Peace Action of Central New York Peace Action & Education Peace Action International Peace Action Manhattan Peace Action of Staten Island Upper Hudson Peace Action Western New York Peace Center 3 Peace Action Fund of New York State Peace Action New York State Our history…. Ban the Bomb Peace Action has its roots in the “ban the bomb” movement of the 1950s. In 1957, citizens, alarmed by the spiraling nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, formed the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (aka SANE) “to develop public support for a boldly conceived and executed policy which will lead mankind away from war and toward peace and justice.” SANE's co-founder and co-chair from 1957 to 1963, Norman Cousins, was an influential figure in launching and sustaining the organization in its early years. SANE made its debut on November 15, 1957, with a full page advertisement in The New York Times, signed by SANE spokespeople including Albert Schweitzer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Thomas, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Bertrand Russell, Pablo Casals, Roger Baldwin, Paul Tillich and Erich Fromm. These well-known Americans helped SANE become an effective national voice for nuclear disarmament. From the beginning, SANE saw peace and justice as linked; supporters like Dr. Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis connected SANE with civil and human rights movements across the nation. As its reputation grew, artists and entertainers like Steve Allen, Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller joined Harry Belafonte and Ossie Davis to form Hollywood’s Stars for SANE. By the summer of 1958, SANE had 130 chapters and some 25,000 members, making it the largest peace group in the United States. Our First Victory and Confronting the Vietnam War In 1963, members led the effort to our first major victory, the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. SANE was an early leader in the anti-Vietnam War movement. Benjamin Spock and Seymour Melman, as well as current Board members David Cortright, Marcus Raskin, Robert Schwartz and President Emeritus William Sloane Coffin were all deeply involved in this movement. SANE’s public education campaigns, such as its anti-ballistic-missile campaign slogan: “From the people who brought you Vietnam!,” linked Vietnam with nuclear spending. In 1978, SANE led the successful fight against MX mobile missile deployment that avoided massive environmental damage in Utah and Nevada. New alliances with labor were formed through work with the International Association of Machinists, whose President, William Winpisinger, served as Board Co-Chair. The Freeze In the early 1980s, President Ronald Reagan’s nuclear war-fighting policies reignited public outrage once again, and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign was born. Initiated by Randall Forsberg’s call to “freeze and reverse the nuclear arms race,” The Freeze was a grassroots-based confederation of groups with offices in St. Louis and Washington, D.C. Their 1982 ballot initiatives in towns and cities across the nation gave voice to a public desire for nuclear sanity–a voice that eventually attracted attention from the great nuclear warrior himself. Throughout the 1980s Freeze leaders Randall Forsberg, Pam Solo and Randy Kehler worked tirelessly with SANE Director David Cortright to push for nuclear reductions. Elected officials such as Rep. Patricia Schroeder and Sen. Ted Kennedy joined us to lead the fight in Congress. And when the U.S. government began to hold the line on nuclear weapons, Vice President Bush felt compelled to remind voters that it was not “those Freeze folks” who brought about this change … handing us a backhanded (if thoroughly unintentional) compliment. In 1987, leadership from the two groups initiated negotiations for a merger. With great effort, in a political context dominated by neo-conservatives and increased militarism, SANE and The Freeze joined to become SANE/FREEZE, and in 1993, Peace Action.
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