Roles before, during, and after an action

Every action requires a range of different tasks. Some are very visible (for example, the people blocking a street, or the press spokesperson), while others are less visible. Each of these tasks is equally important, as all together they make an action possible.

Before an action

• Coordinator, campaigner, or organiser
• Fund raisers
• Research
• Scouting the site or route
• Outreach and organising
• Logistics and support
• Meeting facilitator's
• Prop, sign, and banner making, painters, graphic artists, etc.
• Sending out media and press releases
• Publicity kit preparers
• Writers

During an 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
• Leafletters
• Videographer
• Still photographer
• Medic/EMT/Medical team
• Legal observer(s)
• Jail support contact person

After an action

• Legal support (see 'legal support')
• Lawyer
• Documenter/historian/archivist
• Fund raisers
• Public speakers
• Letter-writers to decision-makers and newspaper editorial boards

Adapted from Rant Collective: www.rantcollective.net