How defeating Keystone XL built a bolder, savvier climate movement
From frontline battles to large national mobilizations, tar sands resistance developed new tactics & organizing strategies for the larger climate struggles ahead.
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Context Map Template
This Context Map template allows a team to foster a collective understanding of the overall context in which a campaign is happening.
System Map Template
Use this worksheet template to determine how you will talk about your campaign to inspire and motivate people to take action.
Iceberg Worksheet: What’s the root cause of the problem?
Drill down into the root cause of a problem a campaign aims to address. Shift focus from the event into underlying societal structures.
Call to Action Worksheet
Use this worksheet template to determine how you will talk about your campaign to inspire and motivate people to take action.
Creating a Team Culture: Worksheet
Use this Engagement Pyramid from the Mobilisation Lab to visualise the different ways a person might get involved with your campaign.
Engagement Pyramid: Visualise the different ways a person might get involved with your Campaign
Use this Engagement Pyramid to visualise the different ways a person might get involved with your campaign.
The Campaign Canvas
From vision and strategy to storytelling and metrics, this template ensures you’ve touched on all the essentials of an effective campaign.
Do Better and Win Bigger by Taking on Marginalisation
Change the world with boycotts, workplace action and memes, political campaigns, disaster relief, civil disobedience and more.
Digital tools to support effective meetings, training and conferences
List of digital tools activists have used to support effective meetings, training and conferences that complement and/or integrate with Zoom.
10 Ways People Power Can Change the World
Change the world with boycotts, workplace action and memes, political campaigns, disaster relief, civil disobedience and more.
Detangling Digital: Has the concept of a centralised digital department outlived its usefulness?
Instead of a centralised place for all things digital, here’s a model for integrating digital skillsets back into every department of an organisation.
Campaigning in High-Risk Environments
How do organisers and campaigners keep working for social justice when the environment they’re in becomes high risk?
Creating a Rapid Response System
A network of allies and a checklist can protect victims of political persecution and build movement power.
5 Principles to Guide Campaigning in 2021
Ideas about how organisations and grassroots collectives can campaign in 2021 – it’s not a ‘normal’ year.Here are 5 principles to guide you.
Campaign Accelerator Toolkit
A toolkit to accelerate the planning process so we can get campaigns out the door faster to create more effective people powered campaigns.
Transformational Change Leadership: Stories of Building a Just Future
Transformational Change Leadership – A roadmap for leadership in collective, community-led & collaborative action.
Reconciliation in the forest? An exploration of the conflict over the logging of native forests in the south west of Western Australia
Why two Western Australian social movement organisations on opposite sides of the logging debate continued to contest WA’s forest policy for so long.
Project Iceberg: Fremantle’s Response to Visiting Nuclear Warships in the 1980s
A history of the unique nonviolent civil disobedience activities of a group of mainly Fremantle residents aimed at visiting US nuclear warships between 1983 and 1985.
Navigating the ‘Festive Season’ as an Activist
Holly Hammond reflects on the challenges and opportunities of an activist Christmas. Great tips on surviving the holidays.