What are the facts about social change and social movements? Daniel Hunter myth busts common misconceptions about how change happens.
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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.
Campaign Tactics
Learn all about tactics for your campaigns including how to adapt their tone for different events and explore different examples.
Building Leadership Capacity: The Ladder of Engagement
Learn how organisers recruit and build the leadership capacity of others with the Ladder of Engagement.
Building Movement Capacity and Structure: Ella Baker and the Civil Rights Movement
Take inspiration from this Civil Rights Movement story about how to build movement capacity and structure. Learn about Ella Baker and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC.
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.
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.
Cheeky and Disorganized: Nannagogy and the Knitting Nannas
Learn about the 6 characteristics of the Knitting Nannas, groups of cheeky, disorganised, supportive older women activists against fracking.
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.
Rebels In The Workforce: Women Worker’s Resistance in the Nineteenth Century
Read a book excerpt from United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia which discusses women’s resistance to workplace exploitation.
Organizing in Increasingly Repressive Environments: Pushing Against Criminalization
With the global rise of authoritarianism, civil society is experiencing an unprecedented crack down. Lessons from organizing against repression in Florida, Brazil, and Nicaragua.
Social Change Myths
What are the facts about social change and social movements? Daniel Hunter myth busts common misconceptions about how change happens.
Campaign Tactics
Learn all about tactics for your campaigns including how to adapt their tone for different events and explore different examples.
Building Leadership Capacity: The Ladder of Engagement
Learn how organisers recruit and build the leadership capacity of others with the Ladder of Engagement.
Building Movement Capacity and Structure: Ella Baker and the Civil Rights Movement
Take inspiration from this Civil Rights Movement story about how to build movement capacity and structure. Learn about Ella Baker and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC.
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.
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.
Cheeky and Disorganized: Nannagogy and the Knitting Nannas
Learn about the 6 characteristics of the Knitting Nannas, groups of cheeky, disorganised, supportive older women activists against fracking.
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.
Rebels In The Workforce: Women Worker’s Resistance in the Nineteenth Century
Read a book excerpt from United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia which discusses women’s resistance to workplace exploitation.
Organizing in Increasingly Repressive Environments: Pushing Against Criminalization
With the global rise of authoritarianism, civil society is experiencing an unprecedented crack down. Lessons from organizing against repression in Florida, Brazil, and Nicaragua.