artthropology:

1. Always remain autonomous. Do not let large outside organizations control your campaign.

2. Learn about racism. Learn about how to be anti-racist. These things don’t happen overnight. Be patient, but understand that this always has to be at the forefront of your organizing, because racism is the fundamental principle on which injustice in this country is built.

3. Be accountable. Never speak for people who haven’t given you permission to do so and told you what to say. Remember that you are a part of the oppression you are fighting, and you have to fight it within yourself as well as outside yourself.
   

4. Have principles. Draw up principles as a group from the beginning, and stick to them. Embody those principles both in your outward activism, as well as in the organizational structure of your group.

5. Learn to communicate. Learn to listen. Learn that you are never the most important person in the room, or the community. If you are a student fighting for social justice on your campus, then you are in an enormous position of privilege. This is magnified for White people, but even students of color are in a position of privilege relative workers of color on their campuses. Privilege destroys communication. Breaking down the barriers created by racism and classism takes a lot of time and effort, but until you are intentional about doing so, you are only going to make things worse.

6. Don’t think in the short term. Our culture is based around short-term thinking: how will we turn a profit the next quarter? How will I pass my classes this semester? But the short-term is not where social change happens. Recognize that the fundamental structures of racism and injustice on your campus are not going to change in your time there. Focus on building groups and organizations that can sustain themselves over the years and students come and go. Make the organization stronger than the personalities it is made up of. Make sure it will still be there after graduation. Take time to celebrate each other as people. When you plan your strategy, include strategies for one, two, four, ten, and twenty years. If you can’t think that far ahead, then you aren’t thinking clearly enough to be organizing shit.

7. Remember that learning to organize, to be anti-racist, and to think in the long term are processes that you will never complete.
   

8. Be willing to adapt.

9. Never give up.

Good advice, period.