Frameworks · Coined by Hannah Naomi Jones
THE FRAMEWORKS
The thinking behind the work. These are the frameworks that turn exhaustion into strategy and strategy into power. Coined, tested, and built to be used.
Framework 01
THE POWER FORMULA
Power is never eradicated. It is only displaced. Organizing and mobilizing are not the destination, they are the vehicle. The formula is the progression that defines the power you are actually trying to wield.
YOUR POWER
Overcome the illusion of powerlessness by mapping where leverage already lives.
YOUR POWER
Aggregate community, financial, and digital resources into real capacity.
YOUR POWER
Take directed, offensive action against the systems of harm.
YOUR POWER
Convert pressure into structural change and the reallocation of resources.
Framework 02
THE FIVE PILLARS OF RESISTANCE
Five forms of power, moving together. No single pillar wins alone. Connected, they are how communities resist, survive, and force structural change.
COMMUNITY POWER
Creating Alternative Systems
Build localized safety nets to survive the gaps left by deregulation.
Mutual aid, community clinics, neighborhood defense networks.
DISRUPTION POWER
Economic Resistance
Use capital and labor to force political action. Corporate pain creates political action.
Labor strikes, consumer boycotts, divestment.
LEGAL POWER
Litigation
Use the judicial system as an emergency brake on arbitrary rollbacks.
Administrative Procedure Act, Appropriations Clause, Impoundment Control Act.
SYSTEMIC POWER
Voting & Electoral Reallocation
Leverage the ballot box to reallocate budgets and reclaim chambers of power.
2026 midterms, city councils, school boards, local elections.
CULTURAL POWER
Controlling the Narrative
Storytelling to set precedent and debunk state-sponsored gaslighting.
Reframe "budget savings" into "the deadly cost of rollbacks."
Framework 03
THE MACHINE VS. THE IRON GIANT
To fight a machine that has co-opted courts, Congress, media, and monopolies, the response must match its scale. Without a digital nervous system, a protest is a pebble thrown at an Iron Giant. Digital infrastructure is the force multiplier.
CONNECTIVITY
Linking organizations, people, and databases to break movement silos.
WEB ECOSYSTEMS
Rapid-response landing pages, secure sites, and digital toolkits.
DATA ARCHITECTURE
Shared databases, data-sharing agreements, integrated CRM (NGP VAN).
SCALING ACTION
Automated sign-ons, advocacy letters, and mass calls and clicks to Congress.
More Frameworks
THE TOOLKIT GROWS
Discover Your Authenticity™
A framework for leaders to locate their authentic voice and lead from it.
Harnessing Narrative Power
A strategic guide for justice-based leaders: turning story into strategy, policy, and funding.
Pathways to Power
A storytelling guide that turns lived experience into collective power.
Grounded In
Jane McAlevey — Deep organizing and the power of the strike
Mariame Kaba — Mutual aid as a survival strategy
Marshall Ganz — Public narrative: Self, Us, Now
Gene Sharp — Methods of nonviolent economic disruption
KNOW YOUR POWER. BUILD YOUR POWER. WIELD IT.