Ruckus Society

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The Ruckus Society

Type	Non Profit
Founded	1995, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon
Headquarters	Oakland, CA
Key people	Mike Roselle (co-founder), John Sellers, Adrienne Maree Brown
Industry	Activism
Products	strategic nonviolent direct action, Internet activism, civil disobedience
Revenue	$600,000
Employees	5 [1]
Website	www.ruckus.org

The Ruckus Society is an organization that sponsors skill-sharing and direct action training camps for activists from impacted communities working on social justice, human rights and environmental justice. Ruckus was founded by Mike Roselle and co-founded with Twilly Cannon and JR Roof to specialize in environmental activism and Guerrilla communication.

The Ruckus Society has created and inspired untold amounts of direct actions around the country. Ruckus co-sponsors 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 [3] .

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, Detroit Summer and more.

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.