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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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.
Four Roles in Palestine Solidarity Activism
Understand the four roles of activism (Bill Moyer) that show up in Palestine solidarity and the movement to end genocide.
How to Create your own Podcast
Learn how to create your own podcast – Tips and examples to help you understand and start your own podcast project.
Radical Imagination: Developing Conscious Activists’ Capacities
Article about radical imagination by YouthxYouth explores and highlights capacities that we can develop to foster conscious activism.
Prefigurative Politics in Practice: Examples and Strategies
Prefigurative politics in practice serves as a powerful catalyst for transformative social change. Here are examples and strategies.
Defiance Creates Hope Zine: Grassroots Action for a Free Palestine
A short zine celebrating grassroots action for a free Palestine, in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia between October 2023 and January 2024.
Activist Burnout Guide with Videos
In this guide from the Activist Handbook they explain how to deal with activist burnout and how to prevent it.
What is Organizing? An Introduction based on the Work of Marshall Ganz
What is organizing? Here is an introduction of the 5 Leadership Practices of organizing and coaching based on the work of Marshall Ganz.
Digital Organizing Frameworks and Models
Explore a collection of digital organizing frameworks and models by Tectonica, a movement building agency.
Movements, Organising and Transformational Politics in the Digital Age
Explore a collection of resources on movements, organising and transformational politics in the digital age by Tectonica.
Tech, including Artificial Intelligence, and its Relationship to Movement Politics
Explore a collection of resources from Tectonica about technology and artificial intelligence and their relationship to movement politics.