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• DON’T BURN OUT. If you have a hard campaign, mix it up with “easy” events: free food on campus, tabling, speakers.
  
  
• Use mainstream “volunteer” events to promote your issue (like a campus open house). Not many activist groups do this, and it sucks. You never know who you may draw into the movement.
  
  
• Keep people motivated and involved. Assign tasks, no matter how small, to get people involved. But expect to do the bulk of the work yourself.
  
  
• Think about outreach opportunities: freshman orientation, coalition building, and joint campaigns.
  
  
• Show that you tried to work within the system. When that doesn’t work, be prepared to escalate.
  
  
• Pester the hell out of people. Operating as a collective doesn’t mean you can’t be a leader.
  
  
• ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE. Fighting to end a UT military contract or get better pay for staff is part of a larger picture: taking control of our education.