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Cover of Counseling for Collective Safety by Tristin Hassell and Natalie Hassell

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Counseling for Collective Safety

Tristin Hassell and Natalie Hassell

A Central Valley inquiry into counseling, institutional responsibility, and collective care. Through immigration enforcement, environmental harm, war, and college policy, it asks how public institutions can protect student agency and address conditions that produce distress.

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Campus Power

Practical guides to campaign strategy, campus labor, mutual aid, money, and control over work.

Campus Power Field guide 01

Where the Power Is

Campaign research and demands that can be enforced

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Where the Power Is

Find the decision behind a grievance, research who controls it, and write a demand people can enforce. Power mapping, records requests, and worked examples help groups evaluate an offer and follow through.

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The Campus Runs on Labor

Worker organizing and student solidarity

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The Campus Runs on Labor

Organize alongside the workers who keep a campus running. Follow workplace relationships, contractors, and negotiations; develop shared demands, respect workers’ decisions, and check whether agreements change conditions on the job.

Campus Power Field guide 05

The Work of Collective Care

Mutual aid, access, and shared responsibility

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The Work of Collective Care

Make food, transport, interpretation, and access part of organizing. This guide addresses mutual aid, privacy, scarce resources, and shared responsibility, with practical ways to offer support a group can sustain.

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Money and Member Power

Budgets, fundraising, and democratic control

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Money and Member Power

Keep financial authority with members. Work through budgets, fundraising, fiscal sponsors, spending rules, and reimbursement, using examples and worksheets that make decisions understandable and accountable.

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Who Controls the Work?

Platforms and collective control

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Who Controls the Work?

Keep authority over work when software sets the pace. Examine automated management and platforms, then develop bargaining demands, staffing protections, creative rights, and alternatives that people can choose and leave.

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