External Resources

Curated links to tools, organizations, and references mentioned across the book. Each entry includes the chapter(s) where it appears.

Digital Security Tools

Have I Been Pwned — Free breach-notification service indexing over 15 billion compromised accounts. Check whether your email or phone number has appeared in a data breach. (Ch 4)

EFF Surveillance Self-Defense — The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s open-access guide to personal digital security, including the threat modeling framework used in this book. (Ch 3, 14)

Cover Your Tracks — EFF tool that tests your browser’s fingerprint against hundreds of thousands of samples and shows how trackable your configuration is. (Ch 9)

Signal — End-to-end encrypted messenger. When served with government subpoenas, Signal has produced only two data points: account creation date and last connection date. Published transparency reports at signal.org/bigbrother. (Ch 5, 14, 20)

Bitwarden — Open-source password manager with free tier. Recommended in the book as a replacement for reused passwords. (Ch 4)

Obsidian — Free, local-first note-taking app. Recommended for the field journal because nothing leaves your device. (Ch 2)

Logseq — Free, local-first outliner and knowledge base. Alternative to Obsidian for the field journal. (Ch 2)

National Lawyers Guild — Legal observer trainings for community groups and a chapter locator to find local support. (Ch 31)

ACLU Know Your Rights — Free, multilingual guides covering demonstrations, police encounters, and the right to record. (Ch 31)

ICNL US Protest Law Tracker — The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law tracks state-level legislation affecting protest rights, assembly, and civic action. (Ch 31)

National Freedom of Information Coalition — State-by-state public records guides, template request letters, and fee waiver guidance for filing FOIA and state-equivalent requests. (Ch 31, 33)

Organizing Resources

Industrial Areas Foundation — Founded 1940. The oldest and largest network of community organizations in the US, with 65+ affiliates. Developed the one-to-one relational meeting practice used in this book. (Ch 13, 16, 25)

Seeds for Change — Consensus Decision Making — Practical consensus toolkit from the UK-based cooperative. Source for the four-position consensus spectrum (Agree → Reservations → Stand Aside → Block). (Ch 21)

EFF Security Education Companion — Guide for teaching digital security to others, including the “setup party” model for group tool configuration. (Ch 20, 24)

Highlander Research and Education Center — Founded 1932. Popular education center that trained Rosa Parks, SNCC organizers, and Citizenship School leaders. Originator of the “yeasty education” model: train a few people who catalyze learning in their communities. (Ch 24, 35)

League of Women Voters — Operating since 1920. Runs the Observer Corps model for civic monitoring: trained volunteers attend public meetings as silent observers and publish standardized reports. (Ch 33)

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief — National network for community-driven disaster response, growing from Common Ground (post-Katrina) and Occupy Sandy. (Ch 35)

Food Not Bombs — Roughly 1,000 chapters in 60+ countries. Three principles: free food for all, each chapter autonomous with consensus decision-making, nonviolent direct action. An example of sustained decentralized organizing. (Ch 34)

Down Home North Carolina — County-based chapters across 25 rural NC counties. Example of permanent local infrastructure rooted in place. (Ch 31)

Historical & Research

SNCC Digital Gateway — Digital archive of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s history, including field secretary accounts, organizing documents, and oral histories referenced throughout the book. (Ch 13, 16, 22, 35, 36)

Jo Freeman — “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” — Foundational 1972 essay on how the absence of formal structure produces informal hierarchies that are harder to challenge than formal ones. Referenced in five chapters. (Ch 17, 18, 23, 30, 34)

Election Protection Coalition — Led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. 300+ partner organizations, 42,000+ volunteers, multi-language hotlines. Model for distributed civic monitoring at scale. (Ch 33)

Bed-Stuy Strong — Brooklyn mutual aid network founded March 2020. Organized by four geographic quadrants, reaching 28,000 people. Example of crisis response evolving into permanent community institution. (Ch 15, 23)