verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message the ruckus society type non profit industry activism founded 1995 mount hood national forest oregon headquarters oakland california key people mike roselle co founder twilly cannon co founder john sellers adrienne maree brown megan swoboda sharon lungo diana pei wu products strategic nonviolent direct action internet activism civil disobedience revenue 250 000 number of employees 3 1 slogan actions speak louder than words website ruckus.org the ruckus society is a nonprofit organization that sponsors skill sharing and non violent direct action training strategy & consultation for activists and organizers from frontline and impacted communities working on social justice human rights migrant rights workers rights and environmental justice . it was founded by mike roselle and twilly cannon . the ruckus society s mission is to provide training in classic nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience tactics in the context of community driven campaigns including creative resistance urban rappelling media & communications and blockades with and without gear . the organization designs custom trainings and camps based on the specific needs and campaigns of the activists and uses popular education techniques to allow participants to discover the direct action knowledge they already possess . contents 1 services and collaborations 2 leadership 3 impact 4 references 5 external links services and collaborations edit the ruckus society has co sponsored projects including the not your soldier project nys a counter recruitment effort with the war resisters league and the indigenous peoples power project ip3 bringing together indigenous youth organizers from all over the country . in 2006 ruckus teamed up with working assets for an election protection project . 2 together with global exchange and rainforest action network they worked against ford motor company and later other auto manufacturers . the ruckus society is a member of numerous coalitions efforts and have performed actions for wal mart watch and others . the group has provided training to greenpeace patagonia inc. the california faculty association united students against sweatshops students for bhopal student farmworker alliance the silicon valley toxics coalition students for a free tibet and detroit summer . the ruckus society helped bottomline organizing for the us social forum in detroit in 2010 and hosted a migrant rights action camp with ndlon at the highlander center in 2011 . leadership edit john sellers was the executive director of the organization for 8 years through the world trade organization protests in seattle in 1999 the creation of ip3 and nys and his own 2 million bail . adrienne maree brown came on as executive director in 2006 the first woman of color to lead the organization . the organization created a co directorship model in 2010 and in 2013 hired a third co director . leadership in the organization comes from the network of trainers and the many movements from which they come . impact edit the ruckus society is made up of three staff and a network of over 150 action trainers and strategists located primarily in the united states but also distributed throughout the world . as a movement support organization the ruckus society has trained thousands of organizers and activists throughout the years in non violent direct action and creative resistance including those in environmental justice migrant rights education justice forest defense indigenous rights workers rights youth and criminal justice and eviction defense . references edit the ruckus society staff . ruckus.org . retrieved 2010 09 01 . working assets . working assets . retrieved 2010 09 01 . external links edit the ruckus society retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ruckus society & oldid 713535541 categories activismanarchist organizations in the united statesorganizations based in oakland californiaprotest tacticshidden categories articles needing additional references from october 2015all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 april 2016 at 16 25 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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