Roles in an action

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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