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The cover of a box of cards, "Beautiful Trouble" with an image of a hammer that is also a bullhorn.

Why Make Beautiful Trouble?

Last month, we announced that the TESA Collective has partnered with Beautiful Solutions to create a strategic card game. Beautiful Trouble is a revolution in a box, which takes the most important elements of the group’s book by the same name, and converts them into an engaging and fun training tool any activist can use[…]

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Just Released: Beautiful Trouble

A card deck with six mini-games for activists Just in time for the holidays, TESA Collective’s latest collaboration has arrived: Beautiful Trouble: A Strategy Card Deck! This exciting and adaptable deck contains over 100 cards and dozens of key strategies and tactics that have inspired centuries of people-powered victories. “A crucial resource for change-makers.” — Archbishop[…]

Five Recent Labor Struggles You Should Know About

Ever since the dawn of modern labor, there have been labor struggles. Take, for example, the wage cut protests of female mill workers in 1834, the 1877 uprising of Irish-American coal miners that resulted in 19 hangings, or the many workplace accidents that led up to the 1970 development of the Occupational Safety and Health[…]

Engaging Your Radical Imagination with Game Changer: The Game of Activist Tactics

Our latest game, Game Changer, was designed by Felicia Perez, former high school history teacher and current community organizer, author, public speaker, activist, and educator.  Thanks to her passion for building the concept of community organizing and power, this past year she collaborated with us at The TESA Collective and the organization she was previously[…]

How Athletes Use Their Platform to Fight for Social Change

It’s time for the Olympics, which is always exciting. But let’s be honest: while the Olympic Games are fun for us spectators, it is a seriously troublesome industry – from the the human displacement it causes in the cities that hold the games; the inequities showcased during the event; the sexist policies of the IOC;[…]