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Looking for articles, books, case studies, tips about social change and activism? You’ve found the right place – The Commons Social Change Library.

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How to Create a Campaign

How do you start a campaign for social change? Learn how to create a campaign using tools such as the Spectrum of Allies.

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Social Change Myths

What are the facts about social change and social movements? Daniel Hunter myth busts common misconceptions about how change happens.

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Campaign Tactics

Learn all about tactics for your campaigns including how to adapt their tone for different events and explore different examples.

The Power of Story: The Story of Self, Us and Now

Learn all about the power of story and how to tell a story to inspire, make change and motivate action using a framework developed by Harvard Professor Marshall Ganz called “Public Narrative” that revolves around three elements – a Story of Self, Us, and Now.

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Health and Climate Activism

Exploring the link between climate activism and its impact on our mental and physical health including positive and negative health experiences.

Aerial view of protestors walking down street next to river with a boat. The protestors are holding a long, large Palestinian flag above their heads.

How to Map a Movement

Learn how to map a movement to help understand the landscape, the other players, what’s missing, what’s most needed, and where things like power imbalances and conflicts are causing problems.

Book cover reading United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia with an image of unionists marching.

Rebels In The Workforce: Women Worker’s Resistance in the Nineteenth Century

Tom O’ Lincoln’s 2005 book United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia chronicles the development of capitalism following invasion and the rise of unions and other organisations in response. The following excerpt from a 2024 edition published by Interventions discuss women’s resistance to workplace exploitation during a period of rapid industrialisation.

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