Tecnicas de Analisis Politico (techniques for politcal analysis)

Some problem trees (from around the world):

"Problem-cause-effect tree diagram" from Our People, Our Resources
http://www.iucn.org/themes/spg/Files/opor/fig5_1c.html

Another tree, from Eric Mar's Asian Studies and Activism website.
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ericmar/tree.html

How-to description of the problem tree activity, with a link to an image (near the top), from Dublin radion station Near 90.3 FM's Community Media Participatory Learning Manual
http://www.nearfm.ie/plm114.htm

Description of the problem tree activity, from a BBC article about women organizing in Malawi.

By Matt Noyes (in collaboration with David Levin, David Pratt, and Steve Downs)

Okay, you have organized a rank-and-file reform group in your union. You are active and presenting a real challenge to the existing union administration. But how strong are you? How strong is the administration that you are challenging? How has your strength (and theirs) been changing? What are your weaknesses? What are theirs? Does everyone in your group share the same assessment? What are the implications for your strategy?

By Matt Noyes. Based on a class taught for AUD by Steve Downs, a New York City train operator and reform activist who is an expert at Robert's Rules in the real world and a great improviser.

Summary:

By Matt Noyes. (I got the idea from the late Spalding Gray's "interviewing the audience" performance technique, which I saw him perform in Brooklyn's Prospect Park one summer night. Gray circulated in the audience prior to the performance, finding interesting people who he later brought onstage for a rambling, but very entertaining, interview and conversation.)

Summary:

By Matt Noyes, from a workshop with Leon Rosenblatt

Summary:
This is a spur of the moment role play where participants and educators act out the actions and problems they have been discussing, with no preparation or script.

Good for:

By Matt Noyes; the cuento vivo technique on which this is based comes from Alforja, Tomo I.

Summary:
One of the problems with Robert's Rules is that most union members have little or no experience with using them. Using a "Cuento Vivo" (live story) technique, this activity has people act out a scene from a union meeting. The scripted parts help people practice the language and shows how the rules can be used.

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