written & Organized by:

Ron Goldberg
Amy Bauer
Andrew Miller
Alan Klein

ZAP/ACTION TEACH-IN OUTLINE

I. Conceptual

A. Goal - What you want? (from target?)

B. Target - Whom/What is action for/against?
C. Audience - Who are you trying to reach? Who will see it?
(Target/Publicy/Media/Co-workers/Higher-ups/Community)
D. Message - What do you want to say? (sentence/visual)
E . . Tactic - How will you achieve goal? Hit target?
Reach audience? Get message across?
(verbs/action: To embarrass, to goad, to educate,
to draw attention to ... , etc.)
II. Logistics

A. When (Time & Date) incl. Length of Action

"optimum people time" vs. "optimum media time" vs.
"appropriate time"

B. vlhere - Location must be scouted

1. Outside
a) Physical Layout
1) space available for demo
2) construction/obstructions
3) entrances/exits
4) photo ops
b) Visibility
1) pedestrian/auto traffic
2) convenience/accessability
3) nearness to "target"
c) security
1) private property vs. pUblic
2) building security
2. Inside
a) Layout
b) Public Ingress & Egress
1)· open to public?
2) what do you need to get in?
(passes/ticket/"costume")
c) Private vs. Public property
d) Security
III. Visual/Theme - Communicating Message/"WhY,We're Here"

A. Visual Image(s)
B. Fact Sheet
C. Chants

IV. Tactics: (Gene Sharp List)

A. Type of Action (ex.)

1. Symbolic Protest
2. Disruption/Interference
3. Education/Outreach
4. civil Disobedience - Purposeful Direct Action
Risking Arrest by Disobeying Law
(vs. "Arrest" - action by Police)
a) Planned
b) Spontaneous

B. Contingencies - "What ifs ... "

1. You can't get preferred spot
2. Group is larger/smaller than planned
3. Act of Higher Power - i.e Weather
4. Police presence/interference
5. Initial demands met prior to demo

C. Ending/Closure - Closing Gesture/Statement

V. What You'll Need

A. Zap Coordinator(s)/Facilitator(s)
l. Nail down info. (pre-zap)
2. Set up communication/info network at zap
(marshalls/demonstrators/affinity/support/lega~
3. Help coordinate w / m e d i a ' ~ ...
4. Interface w/police & legal ':~;
.,;
.......
B. Props ($ avail. from Coord. Comm. via Action or
appropriate committee Rep.)
1. Posters
a) New Demo-Specific -- Poster Party
b) Old Posters (Both handwritten & S=D)
(Storage space) via Action Comm. Rep.
2. Props (sheets, handcuffs, clown masks, chalk ... )
3. Bullhorn (storage Space) - Sound Device Permit?

C. Fact Sheet - must have Coord. Comm. approval

l. Research/Write - old FS, articles, Issues
2. Layout
3. Typeset (Typeset Anon.)
4. Printer (Village Copy) or Xerox (Xerox Anon)
5. Transportation of FS to and from printers/demo

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D. Marshalls/Peace Keepers (Available via call to Floor)
1. Does not control demo -- facilitates action and
minimizes unfriendly interaction between police and
protesters.
2. Number needed depends on:
a) size & type of demo
b) hierarchy of target (position in gov't/corp)
c) how far demo pushes legal limits of behavior
(type of action)
d) CD - spontaneous or planned - Marshalls
often fill support/legal gaps
e) possibility of moving demo to another location

E. Support (CD or ARREST)

1. Before Arrest
a) Know all affinity members/arrestees (faces)
1) Name
2) Phone
3) Address
4) Date of Birth
5) Emergency #'s - work, medical, personal
6) 24-hour needs (medicine etc.)
2. At site
a) Find out circumstance of arrest
b) Where arrestees have been put (vehicle/area)
c) Where arrestees have been taken to be
processed
1) Ask police/Commanding Officer
2) Ask precinct of arresting officers call
Precinct House and ask if protesters are
being brought there
3) Possibilities: Local Precinct, Manhattan
South/North, 1 Police Plaza
d) Go to Holding Site - with group if possible but
ALWAYS with someone else
e) Interface with Legal/Lawyer on details -
Who arrested/when/by whom

F. Legal Observers - ALWAYS

1. Not part of demo - identified as such (armband)
2. Take notes of "happenings" especially interactions
with police - provides factual basis for court cases
and law suits
3. Does not control demo - observes

G. Media
1. Amplifies & spotlights issues
2. Works as deterrent for police violence
3. Appropriateness for event (focus/goal)
4. "Our" media vs. "General Public" media

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VI. Personal Issues

A. Rights/Legal (Check with Legal Contact)

1. Right to moving picket on pUblic sidewalk
allowing pedestrian traffic
2. Right to hand out material in pUblic area,
allowing pedestrian traffic
3. Church/hospital "Quiet zones"
4. Rights on "private property"
5. Rights in custody

B. Points of Contention
1. Responsibility of individual to group/group to
individual
a) Endangerment by group or individual
b) stepping away
c) Taking care of one another
2. Consensus & communication
a) Keeping everyone informed
b) Consensus wnen "decisions" are being made
i.e. changing tactics, ending or moving demo
3. Ending: When to leave
Warning signs (i.e. demo fatigue, increase of
police harrassment, goal achieved -- point of
diminished returns)

VII. ACT UP Procedures

A. Zaps presented to floor for "participants/planners" &

ACT UP approval
B. Fact Sheets OK'd by Coord (Tues. mtg) or by at least 3
- members of Coord
C. Posters available at Storage Space available thru
Actions
D. Xerox/Typesetters/Car Owners AnonYmous - Lists
available thru Actions
E. Marshalls/Legal Observ - Call to Floor
F. Reimbursement for $ spent on ACT UP approved Zap
($ave receipts and give to Action/approp. Coord Rep)
G. Zap Media Contact Sheet - available thru Media

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 From Gene Sharp's book THE POLItICS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION, es of NonYiolent Actions
Chapler Three
TIlE ~IETHODS OF NOi'\VIOLE~T PROTEST AND PERSUASION THE METIIOOS OF SOCIAL ~O"(,OOI'I:R,,'IIO~

INTRODUCTION II. Records. radio and Iclevision

INTIWDucnON 62. Siudeni ~trike
FOR~IA l ST ATDIENTS 12. Sk)'wrilinll and tarlhwriling OSTRACISM OF PERSONS 63. Sodal disobedience
I. Public speeches 55. Social boycott 64. Wiihdraw:!1 from sodal
G;WUP REPRESENTATIONS 56. Seleelivc sodal boycoll
2. Lellers of opposition or inslilulions
13. Depulalions
supporc 57. lysiuralic nonaclion WITIWRA W,\ L rROM rm.
14. Mock awards
3. £Xclar:llions b)' organizations 58. Excommunicalion SOCIAL SYSTEM
15. Group lobbying 59. Inlerdid
and inslitutions 65. 5I:1)··al·homc
16. Pickeling
4. Signed pUblic Ualemenh 17. Mock cleclions NONCOOPERA TION WITII 66. TOlal penonal non,'oup,'r:lllon
S. £Xclaralions of indiclment SOCII\L EVENTS, CUSTOMS 67. "rligh ," of worker,
and intenlion SYMBOLIC PUBLIC ACTS AND INSTITUTIONS 68. Sanclllar)'
6. Group or mass pelilions 18. Displays of nags and 60. Suspension of social and 69. Collecti\'r di!':lppcarancc
symbolic colors 70. Prolest emi~rallun ,hi/fall
COM~1 L:NICA TIONS \\'lTH A sports activilies
19. Wearing of symbols
WIDER AUDIENCE 61. 1l0ycOll of soda I affairs t'ons TO CII.-\PTEH. FOUR
20. Praycr and worship
7. Slogans, caricalures and
21. Delivering symbolic objecls
symbols
22. Prolesl diuobings Chapler Five
8. Hanners, poslers and
23. Destruclion of own properlY
dlspla)'ed communicalions 24. Symbolic lighu TilE METHODS OF ECONmllC ~O"COOI'ER,\TIO~:
9. LcaJ1tlS. pamphlclS and 25. Displa)'s of porlrails (I) ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS
books 26. Painl as prolesl
10. Nev.·spapers and journals 27. New signs and names INTIWOUCTION ACTION IIY WORI\tRS A:"D
"CTION IIY CONSUMEH.S PROOUClRS
71. Consumers' bO)'cOll 7R. Workmcn's bOYl.'ull
72. Nonconsumplion of 79. Producers' bOY"oll
boycollrd [toods ACTION 11'1' MIIlOLnll.~
73. Policy or aUslerily KU. Suppliers' and handkr,
74. Renl wilhholding bo)'coll
75. Refusal 10 renl ACTION 11'1' OW~ERS ASO
28. Symboli,' sound, 76. Nalional cOllsunll~rs' boycOll M"NAGBIE~T
1I0NOKING Till I)EAI) 77. Inlcrnalional consumers'
29. Symbolic reclamalions 81. Trader" buy,'oll
43. Polilkal mourning boycott K]. Refusal 10 lei ur sell properly
30. Rude &cs'"rcs 44. Mud funer:!ls
PRESSURES ON INOIVIIJUALS 45. \)emonsllacive funer .."
31. "lIaunling" oflidals 46. IInma,e al burial places
.':!. Tallnlin, offidals PUBLIC ASSDIRLIES
33. Frah:rni7.alion !& 7. Asscmblie' of prole'l or
34. Vi,ils SUPP°rl
OR.o\~I,\ AND MUSIC 48. Proles' meelin~,
3's. lIuOlolOus ,kils and pranks 49. Camoullat!ed meelin~, of
36. Performance, of pla)'s and "role,c
music 50. Teach·ills 190. Allernative markets 195. Scd.int! impri'unlllenl
37. Singinl \\HIIDf{,\W,\L AND 191. Allcrnalive transporlalion 1911. ('i"il disoh"dicncc uf
PROCESSIONS REt'U:-ICIATION sysh:ms "ncutral"la\lo',
38. Mardle. 5 I. Wal\;~ul\ 19:!. I\llcrnaliw cwnulllic 197. Work·on v.;lhoul,·oll~bmall"n
39. Parades 52. Silence ins\llullon, 19li. Oual ,0vCrCil!"l)' an.! parall....
40. Relil:iou, "rocessions 5.'. Renouncint! hOllnr, rOUTICA L INTERVJ::NTIO:-; gU\'crnmcnl
4 I. rill:rima~cs 54. Tllrning one's bad 193. Overl\ladin~ of admini'lraliw
42. MOlorcades systcms
NOTES TO CIIAPTER TIIREE'
194. \)isdo'in~ idcnlili," of-cerCI
al!enh
'10, l.od:oul ~'ro:dil (,ITIZENS~ ALTERNATIYES TO <nforl'\~mcnl ;I~cnls
1(4, Ro:fu-.al ..f indusUial 91l. R~'\'o:uue
refusal OUEI>IENCE 1-111. Mutiny
assislan.:.: 91. Refusal of a lIovernmcnl's 133.. Relutlanl and SIOWC;GnlplianCl: IJmlESTIC GO\"ERNSII:NT:\L
115. )Icr.:hanh· "Ileneral striko:" _ money 134. Nonob;:dience in &bsence of ,\CTIO:>:
ACTIO~ IIY 1I0LOERS OF ACTION DY GOVERNMENTS direct supervision 1-19. Quasi·lcgal c\'a~i~ns and
F1:-';Ar.:CIAL RESOURCES 92. Domeslil: embargo . 135. Popular nonobedict\ce delars
116. Wilhdrawal of bank deposil5 93. Bla.:klisling of lraders 136. pisguised diso!>edidlGe 150. Non.:oopeutiun by
1l7. Refusal 10 pa)' fo:cs. due•• and 9~. Inlernalion::1 sell.:rs· em":lCgo 137. Refusal of an as.senlblage constilm:nl govcrnmcnlal
as~cssmcnls 95. Inlern:lllonal buyers' embaq;o or mcctillg 10 disp.:rSe unHs
Itt;, RcfusallO pal' debb or 96. Inlernalional uade embargo 138. Sildown INTERNATIONA L
inlcresl 139. Noncuoperalion wilh GOVERNMENTAL ACTION
\.
II'J, S... wr:ln~' ... of funds and I:onscrip!ion and d.:portalion 151. <.nanges in diplomatic and
140. Hiding, escape and false olher ~prc~cnlation
idenlilies 152. Delar and can.:ellaliun of
Ch:lptt!r Six I ~ I. Civil disobicncc: of dipl~malic c\'cnls
THE METHODS OF ECO~OMIC NONCOOPERATION: "iIIegitimale "laws I S'3. Wilhholding of diploma Ii.:
(~) THE STRIKE , "<.TION UY GOVERNMENT re.:ognilion
• PERSONNEL 154, Severance of diplomatic
I:-;TROUL'CTtON RESTRICTED STRI KES 142. Selective refusal of assislance relalions
snlHOLlC STRI~ES 108. Delailed strike by governmenl.aides I S5. Withdrawal from international
97. Pr\ltcsl slrike 109. Bumper strike . 143. Blocldng of lines of command organizations
98. Qukkie walkout (hghtning 110. Slowdown su'ike and information 156. Refusal of membership in
sUike) III. \'torking-Io-rulc $lrike 144. Stalling and obslruclion international bodies
AGRln'LTURAL STRI~ES 112. Reporting "sick" (sick-in) 145. Geueral administralive 157. Expulsion from inlernational
99. P.:asant sUikc 113. Strike Ly resignalion noncooperation organizations
100. Farm we.rkers' strike 114. limi:ed sniko: 146. Judicial noncooperalion
STRtKES BY SPfCIAL GROLIPS lIS. Selc:l:live sUike 147. Deliberate inefficicnl:Y and
10 I. Refusal of impressed labor , MULTI-INDUSTRY STRIKES selective noncooperalion by
102. Prisoners' strike 116. Gencralizo:d slrike
103. Craft strike 117. General strike Chaplr: Eight
104. Professional slrikt rmlBlNATION OF STRIKES AND
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT I~TERVENTIO:-J
ORDI~ARY INDUSTRIAL I::CONmllC CLOSURES
STRIKES 111I. Harlal INTRODUCTION 173. Nonviulent ol:("~pation
lOS. Establishment strike 119, Econumi.: Shuldown PSYCHOLOGICAL
106. Induslry sleike SOCIAL INTERVENTION
INTERVENTION 174. Establishing new social
107 S)'mpalhetk strike NOTES TO CHAPTER SIX 158. Self-cxposure to the elements pallerns
159. The fast 175. O\'l:rloading uf facililies
Olapler Seven (al Fast of moral pressure 176. Slall-in
(bl Hunger strike 177. Sp.:ak-in
THE METHODS OF POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION (.:) Salyagrahlc fast 178. Guerrilla Ihealer
160. Reverse 'lrial 179. Altern.. live sod:J1 inslitutions
I:-;TRODUCTION deparlmenlS, al(encies and 161. Nonviolent harassmen t
REJECTION OF AUTHORITY olher bodie. 180. Allernallvc communkation
127. Withdrawal fronl lovernmenl PHYSICAL INTERVENTION s)'slem
120. Withholding or wilhdr:l\val of
educalional insliluli.:>ns 162. Sit-in ECONOMIC INTERVENTION
:lIlegiance
121. Refusal of public SUppOrl 128. Boycoll of ,overnmenl-
163. Stand-in i 81. Reverse mike
164. Ride-in 182. Sla)'-in strike
! 22, liler:1I ure :Jnd speeches supporled or,allizations 165. Wade-in 183. Nonviolent land sdlure
ad voe.1I ing resistance 129. Refus:l1 of as.~istanc:e 10
166. Mill-in 184. Defi..nce of blockades.
CITIZENS' NONCOOPERATION c:nforccment agents
167. Pray-in 185. Polilicall)' molivalo:d
WITII GOVERNMENT 130. Removal of own signs and
168. Nonviolent raids counlerfeiling
123. Boycoll of legislalh'e bodies placemarks
131. Rc:fus;llto a.:cc:pt appointed 169. Nonvk'lenl air raids 186. Preclusive purl'has!nl
12~. Bo)'coll of e1eclions
oflkials
170. Nonviolenl invasion 187. Seizure of assets
I::!S. BO)'coll of l!overnment _- 171. Nunviolcnl inle'jectiun 188. Dumping
employment and posilions 13:!. Refusal 10 dissolve exisling
17~. t~onviolenl ohslruclion I H!I. Seleclive patronal:e
126. BO)'COIl of ,ovc:rnmenl inslitulions
:cil'