Direct Action Roles for Affinity Groups
(A very abbreviated list…)
BEFORE ACTION
- Coordinator, Campaigner or Organizer
- Fundraisers
- Research
- Scouting the site or route
- Outreach and organizing
- Logistics and support
- Meeting facilitator
- Prop, sign and banner making, Painters, Graphic artists, etc.
- Media outreach: Send out media advisory and media release
- Media kits
- Writers
DURING ACTION
- People risking arrest (committing civil disobedience)
- Direct Support People
- Police Liaison
- Peacekeepers/monitors:
- Deployment Team/ Diversion
- Media spokesperson
- Media outreach
- Communication team
- Demonstrators/Sign-holders/Chanters/Singers/ Hand out literature etc.
- Videographer
- Still photographer
- Medic/EMT/Medical Team
- Legal Observer(s)
- Jail Support Contact person
AFTER ACTION
- Legal Support
- Lawyer
- Documentarian/Historian/Archivist
- Fundraisers
- Public speakers
- Letter writers to decision-makers and newspaper editorial boards
taken from: Rant collective
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