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The case for laughter in social movements
Comedian and community organiser Maxwell J Smith writes about how our movements and campaigns need art, creativity and laughter.
Supporting Indigenous Leadership in the Climate Movement
This article looks at connections between Indigenous rights and climate change and the legacies of genocide and oppression. It is directed at non-Indigenous people to encourage better allyship.
Supporting Young People’s Activism in the Climate Emergency
Young people are powerful agents of social change! This article includes tips for communicating with young people about the climate crisis and ways to support youth leadership including interrupting age-related oppression.
Healing Our Climate Grief
This article shares perspectives on healing climate grief, including the importance of feeling and releasing feelings and accessing peer support.
An investigation into the Australian Environmental Movement’s characteristics and activities
Research and insights on the Australian environmental movement and campaigners including their experiences, characteristics of the movement, activities and campaigns.
Your Activist Speech in Court
A guide to insisting on a lower sentence from an experienced nonviolent activist. Includes tips about the different aspects to cover in court speeches.
Introducing a new paradigm for social change
A collection of writing focused on new paradigms beyond the climate crisis and techniques for catalysing mass commitment to transformative change.
FWD + Organise 2019 Conference Presentations and Papers
A list of presentations and articles from the FWD+Organise conference on organising and digital campaigning held in Sydney, Australia in 2019.
Barnstorming to take Australia by storm
Barnstorms are large campaign events which activate volunteers and supporters to step up and convene actions. Anita Tang shares the model developed by the Bernie Sanders campaign with suggestions for the Australian context.
Fighting online racist trolls
Laura O’Connell Rapira from ActionStation (Aotearoa New Zealand) ran a workshop at the conference, FWD+Organise 2019, about how their organisation worked with volunteers to tackle the trolls behind online hate.
Building Digital Power – A playbook for changemakers
Digital strategy insights and tips for not for profits focused on people and relationships and based on a decade of trial and error and research.
Australian Progress Conference Presentations and Articles
Australian Progress holds Australia’s largest social change conference every two years. Here are links to presentations and articles from conferences so far.
Creating your brand identity
Have you been trying to create and/or build upon your brand identity for a campaign or your organisation? Great tips and a checklist from Principle Co.
Coping with climate change distress
This booklet, drawing on evidence based insights from psychology, offers strategies to cope with the stress of climate change. Includes behavioural, relational, cognitive and emotional coping strategies.
The Climate Change Empowerment Handbook
Engage more effectively with the challenge of climate change with insights from psychology and The Australian Psychological Society.
Narrating Change During ‘Psychic Breaks’
This extract from the book Re:Imagining Change explores ‘psychic breaks’, seismic events (like the Australian 2019-2020 bushfires) that shake status quo assumptions and provide opportunities for new stories to be told.
Resistance Guide
A powerful social movement has risen to oppose Trump and to build a better America. Now there is a guide to give you the essential tools and strategies to grow and maintain a resistance powerful enough to win.
Community Mapping
What is community mapping? Learn from organisers that have used the community mapping model to empower their own communities.
Resources for Disaster Relief and Recovery
A collection of resources to support community responses to the Australian bushfires and other disasters. Includes resilience and recovery, navigating trauma, conversation guides and taking action.