Communities Over Highways Playbook to Help Advocates Organize

Posted October 21, 2026 in Weblog

America Walks is proud to launch the Communities Over Highways Organizing Playbook to assist neighborhood members construct profitable campaigns for safer, extra related communities from the bottom up.

This toolkit is meant for neighborhood organizers in search of to guard their communities from freeway enlargement, or to reconnect communities divided by highways. It accommodates useful data and concepts for these simply getting began and people already within the combat. 

The Communities Over Highways Organizing Playbook is knowledgeable by the rising motion and expertise of freeway fighters from across the nation. America Walks want to give a particular due to all who supplied their insights for the playbook, by means of their participation in a Communities Over Highways Summit or by means of the Freeway Fighters Community.

A Freeway Harms Your Neighborhood. Now What?

Numerous communities throughout the US are break up in half by highways. Highways change into limitations when constructed by means of communities, dividing and polluting cities, cities, and neighborhoods.

Many individuals change into freeway fighters after they resolve their neighborhood is healthier off with out a large highway. Possibly a plan to increase or lengthen a freeway spurs them to motion. Possibly an current freeway has reached the top of its life and there’s the chance to reexamine whether or not it’s wanted in any respect.

What’s Within the Playbook?

The playbook supplies a place to begin for understanding the final bureaucratic and authorized course of that information freeway constructing and the organizing methods that may form freeway fights. It should introduce the reader to common ideas and provide case research from freeway fights in each city and rural settings 

This toolkit will assist you make a case presenting a optimistic imaginative and prescient that motivates fellow neighborhood members and determination makers to interact. 

Test it Out

The Communities Over Highways Organizing Playbook is on the market to obtain right here.

America Walks can be the steward of the Freeway Fighters Community, which exists to alternate data and help freeway fighters throughout the nation. You may be a part of the community right here.