Since 2022, a group of activists and Amnesty staff members from across Europe has been working in ‘Power Up Rights’, a collaborative project set up to explore creative ways of building people power with equity. The team interviewed a dozen of grassroots movements, organizations and Amnesty sections in the region, to ask about their best practice for building power with people. The team’s key findings have been summarized into 8 ‘principles’ in this ‘playbook’. These 8 principles are created with the input from staff and activists from Amnesty International sections in Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands, the UK and the Europe Regional Office. These principles could offer guidance when exploring people powered activism.
