Category:

Optional

Description and Purpose:

Suggested campaign tactics.

Method:

Consider the tactics below for inclusion in your campaign ‘tactics toolkit’.

• Media campaign (programs or media-worthy stunts)
• Protest or solidarity marches (make merry, have noise/music)
• Picketing (effective where customers can be made aware of the issue)
• Sit-ins (passive resistance)
• Public meetings or workshops
• Public speeches at events
• Street information stalls
• Theatre performance about an issue (street theatre, film, TV or radio)
• Musical events or song about the issue
• Concerts (with a film about the issue playing in the background and/or to raise funds for the campaign)
• Product’ ‘dumps’ (e.g. throwing away or burning a product - for the media, to draw attention to a product that harms the environment, or uses child labor)
• Picture opportunities (for media)
• Leafleting
• Letter writing or postcard campaigns or petitions

These are just a few campaigning methods that could be used. There are many others, and it is also good to develop new and creative tactics.