How to Win: A Practical Guide for Defeating the Radical Right in Your Community --------------------------------- SECTION A - Fight Back --------------------------------- Ten Things to do When the Right Comes to Town How to Form a Mainstream Coalition in Your State Organizing Against the Far Right on College Campuses Hints for Amateur Organizers There is No Rain Without Thunder Legal Limitations on the Political Activities of Tax-Exempt Organizations. --------------------------------- SECTION B - Elections --------------------------------- At the Ballot Box Winning Elections: Organizing Tips From San Diego Initiative Campaigns How to Contact Elected Officials The Numbers Say What?! A Primer on Polling SECTION C - Communications Telling Your Story to the Media How to Organize a Community Speak-Out Project Tips for Effective Speaking The Science of Spin --------------------------------- SECTION D - Religion --------------------------------- Using Religious Voices to Confront the Religious Right Bad History: What the Right Says About the Constitution - Facts to Help You Set the Record Straight Theological Arguments Against Intolerance --------------------------------- SECTION E - Public Education --------------------------------- General Attacks Against Public Education Public Aid to Parochial Schools Don't Let Them Out of Your Sight for a Second The San Diego Model: A Community Battles the Right Creationism Community Organizing for Sexuality Education Sexuality Education Talking Points Religion and Public Education Prayer in Public Schools and Graduation Ceremonies Talking Points About Prayer in Schools Missionaries in Public Schools How the Law Deals with Religion in Public Schools Secular Humanism --------------------------------- SECTION F - Censorship --------------------------------- Protecting the Freedom to Learn Public Library Censorship Public Funding and the Arts and Humanities. Organizing Against Censorship Combating Censorship in the Arts: Action Steps The Sex Panic: Fighting the Myth that Censorship is Good for Women --------------------------------- SECTION G - Gay and Lesbian Rights --------------------------------- Mobilizing a Strong Response: When Your State is Targeted for an Anti-Gay Initiative Talking Points Against Anti-Gay Rhetoric Close Encounters With the Gay and Lesbian Community - Three Steps to Organizing Around Gay and Lesbian Issues --------------------------------- SECTION H - Reproductive Choice --------------------------------- ProChoice IdEA: A Technique That Works Talking Points on Choice How to Organize Support for Clinics, Physicians and Staff This Door Stays Open: A Community Action Guide --------------------------------- SECTION I - Environment --------------------------------- Patriotic Games: Anti-Environment, Anti-Choice Groups Make Their Move Healing Creation: A New Theology for a Small Planet. --------------------------------- SECTION J - Resources --------------------------------- Selected Influential Organizations and Periodicals Promoting an Orthodox View of Culture and Society A Selected Reading List for Studying the History & Politics of the American Political Right. =================================================== How to Win: A Practical Guide for Defeating the Radical Right in Your Community Copyright 1994 by Radical Right Task Force Permission is granted to reproduce this publication in whole or in part. All other rights reserved. For more information contact: Pat Lewis National Jewish Democratic Council 711 Second Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 544-7636 =================================================== This document is from the Politics section of the WELL gopher server: gopher://gopher.well.com/11/Politics/ Questions and comments to: gopher@well.com .