Below is an abbreviated list of some of Patrick’s writings on strategy, narrative and movement building. As noted many of them were co-written with colleagues at the smartMeme Strategy and Training Project which became the Center for Story-based Strategy in 2013.
NEW! In fall 2020 Re:Imagining Change was released in German by Unrast Press, with a new preface by Timo Luthmann.
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements and Change the World co-authored with Doyle Canning NEW Expanded 2nd Edition with Foreword by Jonathan Matthew Smucker Sept 2017 from PM Press GET YOUR COPY HERE.
Contributor to A New Paradigm for Sustainable Development? and Sharing Our Planet: Today and Tomorrow Two reports from the Working Group on Shared Societies and Environmental Sustainability Published by the Club de Madrid/World Leadership Alliance 2017
Harnessing the Power of Narrative for Change (downloadable pdf) This short essay explaining the strategic approach of the Center for Story-based Strategy was produced for the Ford Foundation’s Narrative and Social Change Briefing 2013
Contributor to Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for the Next Revolution edited by Andrew Boyd O/R Books: 2012 Check out all the modules and buy the book by clicking here or follow the links below to the specific modules: Points of Intervention, Memes, Framing, Battle of the Story, Lead with Sympathetic Characters, Reframe, Media Jacking, Think Narratively, Show don’t Tell
Tacking into the Wind: Narrative Strategy for Building Transformative Movements (downloadable color pdf) Short strategy essay co-authored with Doyle Canning for the Social Justice Infrastructure Funders Strategy Convening 2011
GiantWhispers: Narrative Power, Radical Imagination and a Future Worth Fighting For… (downloadable pdf) This essay was written for Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, Volume 4, Number 2 Fall 2010 and explores the role of political imagination in transformative movement building.
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements and Change the World co-authored with Doyle Canning PM Press: 2010. Click here to get the book as a free pdf download from the Center for Story-based Strategy.
Intro to Story-based Strategy Booklet (downloadable color pdf) This 2008 manual distills the work of the smartMeme Strategy & Training Project and covers the basics of how to use story-based strategy for your campaign.
Story-based Strategies for Direct Action Design This article from 2008 applies the story-based strategy framework to planning creative actions and mobilizations.
De-Colonizing the Revolutionary Imagination (downloadable pdf) This 10-part essay covers a wide range of strategy ideas many of which were later developed into specific tools and methodologies by the smartMeme Strategy & Training Project. First distributed as a zine it was republished in a number of publications including the 2004 anthology Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Make a Better World edited by David Solnit (City Lights Press 2004)
Information Warfare in Miami (downloadable pdf) This article is one of a series written by Patrick and his colleagues in the smartMeme collective analyzing mass action strategy that reports on the 2003 protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting in Miami.
The San Francisco Uprising (downloadable pdf) This article explores the strategy and interventions of the San Francisco based mobilization Direct Action to Stop the War which organized the mass shut down of the San Francisco financial district in response to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
smartMeme: Tools & Strategies for Building an Earth Centered Movement (downloadable pdf) This is the original smartMeme publication, compiling the collective’s movement strategy articles which were previously published in the Earth First! Journal in 2002. It was produced to accompany workshops conducted by the smartMeme collective at the 2003 National Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington D.C.