![a cut out of a man called Marshall Ganz. Text reads - When I came across the Commons it really blew me away. I had never seen a resource centre that was alive where you can actually find things...there are many different kinds of resource centres - there's the back of the closet where tings accumulated, there's the filing cabine you never go back to...this is the opposite this is meant to be a living resource centre - growing, adapting and thriving. quote by Marshall Ganz, Harvard Professor](https://i0.wp.com/commonslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/Quote-template.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Sharing Research and Reports via the Commons Library
How the Commons Social Change Library can help academics and researchers share their work more effectively with campaigners and improve impact.
Looking for articles, books, case studies, tips about social change and activism? You’ve found the right place – The Commons Social Change Library.
How the Commons Social Change Library can help academics and researchers share their work more effectively with campaigners and improve impact.
Learn about the story and the tactics (protests, hunger strikes) that led to Mongolia’s change from authoritarianism to democracy.
How do you start a campaign for social change? Learn how to create a campaign using tools such as the Spectrum of Allies.
What are the facts about social change and social movements? Daniel Hunter myth busts common misconceptions about how change happens.
Learn all about tactics for your campaigns including how to adapt their tone for different events and explore different examples.
Learn how organisers recruit and build the leadership capacity of others with the Ladder of Engagement.
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.
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.
Exploring the link between climate activism and its impact on our mental and physical health including positive and negative health experiences.
Learn about the 6 characteristics of the Knitting Nannas, groups of cheeky, disorganised, supportive older women activists against fracking.
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.
Read a book excerpt from United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia which discusses women’s resistance to workplace exploitation.
With the global rise of authoritarianism, civil society is experiencing an unprecedented crack down. Lessons from organizing against repression in Florida, Brazil, and Nicaragua.
Understand the four roles of activism (Bill Moyer) that show up in Palestine solidarity and the movement to end genocide.
Learn how to create your own podcast – Tips and examples to help you understand and start your own podcast project.
Article about radical imagination by YouthxYouth explores and highlights capacities that we can develop to foster conscious activism.
Prefigurative politics in practice serves as a powerful catalyst for transformative social change. Here are examples and strategies.
A short zine celebrating grassroots action for a free Palestine, in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia between October 2023 and January 2024.
In this guide from the Activist Handbook they explain how to deal with activist burnout and how to prevent it.
What is organizing? Here is an introduction of the 5 Leadership Practices of organizing and coaching based on the work of Marshall Ganz.