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When the People Lead,
the Leaders Follow
The Backbone Campaign specializes in the creation of spectacle imagery, innovative messaging and political theater. Most of our work involves what we call Artful Activism, in which we engage progressive activists and organizers in the strategic use of creative tactics such as festival arts, flash mobs, music and other theatrical forms of nonviolent direct action.
Backbone Campaign Training Opportunities & Resources

Backbone TrainingsThe Backbone Campaign offers a wide variety of workshops and trainings through our staff and national network of organizers, activists, and artists. 

Below you will find a menu of offerings, a roster of trainers, opportunities to participate in upcoming events, and instructions for designing a custom workshop or multi-day training camp to suit you community, organization, or campaign.

We look forward to working with you to build a more powerful and vibrant movement for human rights, sustainable, resilient communities, and ecological well being.

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Workshop Offerings

Workshops & Trainings are HERE! Check out which ones best enhance your fight!

(New ones are being added daily, so please excuse any mess)

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Trainer Roster

Meet our roster of amazingly gifted trainers! Backbone Campaign's expansive national network brings you into collaboration with some of the most talented and innovating practitioners of transformative social change and movement-building work. They are eager to share with you their years of insights and hard-won lessons learned. [We'll be posting more trainers and their bio's weekly]...

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Localize This!

Localize This! - August 1st- 5th 2013

Artful Activism, Creative Tactics, and Direct Action Training Camp on the beautiful Puget Sound.

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Backbone Training Director Kim Marks and Backbone Co-Founder Bill Moyer will be in Los Angeles, CA May 20-23! Bertold Brecht wrote, "Art is not a mirror with which we reflect reality, but a hammer with which we shape it." Sign up today to participate in the trainings Host a House Party to help fund our movement building work. Organize another worskhop in your community! Amplify your activism with artistic and creative direct action- Build up your tactical toolkit today!   Artful Activism 2-Day Workshop: May 21st-22nd Join the Backbone Campaign and the Youth Justice Coalition for Artful Activism Nonviolent Direct Action Trainings.…
Join Veteran Strategists and Expert Action Trainers for a Weekend of Action-Oriented Workshops and Skills Trainings in Bellingham, WA June 14th-16th. TPP: Corporate Greed vs. Human Needs? - You Decide...   REGISTER TODAY!