The document discusses tools that activists and civil society groups use to organize and amplify their activities in a distributed, bottom-up manner. It recommends hosting one's own infrastructure like mailing lists and wikis when possible. Key tools mentioned include IRC channels, etherpads for collaborative writing, co-ment for reviewing documents, liquidfeedback for delegated voting, and monitoring sites for tracking legislation. The overall message is that open, decentralized tools allow groups to operate effectively with minimal budgets.