People Camp
People Camp 2025: How We Win - NonViolent Direct Action for Social Change
August 10-16
Northern Pines Retreat Center
Park Rapids, MN
Registration Link for 2025 People Camp
One of the unique aspects of People Camp is the opportunity to engage in shared experiences with other campers. We have numerous opportunities scheduled throughout the week. We also hold space for Interest Groups and spontaneous gatherings. Here are some of this year’s offerings:
WORKSHOPS
How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
by George Lakey
A lifetime of activist experience from a civil rights legend informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns. In an era of massive worldwide protests for racial and economic justice, it is important to remember that marching is only one way to take to the streets. Protest must be supplemented with the sustained direct action campaigns that are crucial to winning major reforms.
Beginning as a trainer in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, George Lakey has spent decades helping direct action tactics flourish and succeed on the front lines of social change. Now, in this timely and down-to-earth guide, he passes the torch to a new generation of activists. Lakey looks to successful campaigns across the world to help us see what has worked, what hasn’t, and why: from choosing the right target to designing a creative campaign; from avoiding burnout within your group to building a movement of movements to achieve real progressive victories.
Drawing on the experiences of a diverse set of ambitious change-makers, How We Win shows us the way to justice, peace, and a sustainable economy. This is what democracy looks like.
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