Easy Read resources about particular campaigns and social issues
Easy Read uses clear language with images so everyone understands. These guides provide information about campaigns and social issues.
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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.
The Anti-Trans Movement Framework
Here is a framework for understanding how the anti-trans movement works and collaborates and how we defeat it.
Board Games and Social Change: What’s in a Game?
The growing appeal of board games has some important lessons for social change and social movements, argues Steve Wright.
Easy Read resources about advocacy and campaigning
Easy Read uses clear language matched with images so everyone understands. These guides introduce advocacy and campaigning.
Lessons from Campaigning for AIDs Activism with Sarah Schulman
Introduction This episode features an interview by Commons Librarian Holly Hammond with novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and historian Sarah Schulman. They discuss the nature of effective coalitions, the challenges of accurately documenting social movements, and lessons from campaigns led by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) during the 1980s and 1990s. A participant in […]
Insights from Disability Campaigning from El Gibbs and Elly Desmarchelier
Disability rights campaigners chat about how campaigns can be more effective & accessible, history and the importance of rest and fun.
Digital Campaigning and Online Organising Courses with Social Movement Technologies
A list of courses for activists and campaigners about digital campaigning and online organising from Social Movement Technologies.
The Social Change Grid: A Framework for Understanding Social Change
Here is a new framework for understanding social change by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation in the UK. It is called the Social Change Grid.
Beyond the International Women’s Day Lunch: Resources for Women’s Activism & Cistem Change
Resources for women’s activism and cis-tem change for IWD and beyond. Are you ready to take your next step for gender justice and liberation?
Measuring People Power in the Digital Age
Tips from Social Movement Technology’s course Top Tools & Tactics to Bump Up Your Online Organizing Game on how to measure your impact.
Build Stronger Communities with the Community Canvas
A framework that helps people and organizations build stronger communities. It provides a template for anyone who brings people together.
The Peace Preacher as Anti-War Organiser in Regional Australia
A personal account of Australian activist, Bryan Law, the ‘Peace Preacher’. Learn about his anti-war campaign and its execution.
Online Tactics: Digital Storms
A Digital Storm is an online event mobilising the public to email, call, text and post comments to a corporate or government target.
Creating Change with Letter Deliveries
A letter delivery is a planned event where representatives from a group or campaign deliver a letter to a manager or business.
What is the Difference between Advocacy and Activism?
Find out the difference between advocacy and activism in this book chapter published in 2022 by Jane Johnston and Robyn Gulliver.
Innovative Tech for Social Justice Causes: Resources from Democracy Labs
Democracy Labs applies innovative tech to social justice and voting rights causes. Here is a list of tech ideas for campaigners & organizers.
An Unsettling Decision: A Legal and Social History of Native Title and the Mabo Decision
Research report by the Australian Parliamentary Library about the Legal and Social History of Native Title and the Mabo Decision.
Glossaries for Campaign Strategy, Community Organising and Solidarity and Justice
Would you like to gain an understanding of what different terms mean in the world of campaigning and organising?
Accessibility: Introduction to Thinking about Events and Engagement
Introduction to thinking about accessibility engagement and events, providing a set of principles and key considerations.
Questioning for Learning, Co-creation and Liberation
Questions can be revolutionary! An exploration of different approaches to questioning for organisers and facilitators.