
Organising: Start Here
Organising builds people power for change. Here is a list of resources to get you started including introductions, different approaches, manuals, tactics, videos and more.
Looking for inspiring videos, films and documentaries about social change and activism? The Commons Library has collated them for you.
Organising builds people power for change. Here is a list of resources to get you started including introductions, different approaches, manuals, tactics, videos and more.
A guide to Coalition Building resources in the Commons Social Change Library including frameworks, training sessions, podcasts, and case studies.
Welcome to the Lobbying & Advocacy topic in the Commons Social Change Library. This article guides you through a wide range of materials to inform the public in relation to lobbying, advocacy and policy-making.
Digital campaigning leverages technology to create change through emails, petitions, and platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Here is a list of resources to get you started.
A guide to First Nations campaigning and activist resources in the Commons Social Change Library including stories and perspectives.
Persuasive messaging to build widespread support for transformative change, like treaties, truth-telling and representation, now and beyond the referendum.
This report discusses Golden Dawn, a far-right party in Greece that engaged in criminal activities and was exposed through civil society efforts, offering lessons for combating extremism worldwide.
Examples and lessons from 350.org of different ways Movement Support Teams can work. Movement Support Teams are peer-to-peer learning.
In this article Denver, Colorado based group Warm Cookies of the Revolution outline how they use innovative arts and cultural programs to help people exercise their “Civic Health” and engage in social change.
This article provides a powerful way to use research to advance a range of economic, environmental, and social issues.
A timeline of the Green Bans implemented by NSW Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) in the early 1970s.
Introduction ‘Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World’ by Jamie Bartlett takes readers on an engaging journey back to the tumultuous world of 2016, a seemingly distant era pre-Covid, Trump and Brexit. This thought-provoking book delves into various ‘radical’ movements, with Bartlett immersing himself within these groups as they traverse the globe, disseminating their message and orchestrating […]
A book and a series of in depth videos based on each chapter about Environmental Movements and Activism around the World.
Easy to use resources including guides, tips and videos provide advice on how to be more inclusive of people with an intellectual disability.
Collection of different case studies / stories of organising and movements from across the globe collated and presented by 350.org.
Case study of a citizens’ jury about the National Disability Insurance Scheme NDIS called the Citizens’ Jury Scorecard Project (Australia).
Videos and overviews of group norms and social identity within the context of understanding conflict between groups.
The participation of people with disability makes groups, campaigns and movements stronger! A webinar presented by the Commons & PWDA.
Civil resistance-Moving from dictatorship to democracy. Negotiations & elections are the breakthroughs that lead to more democratic outcomes.
Civil resistance-Moving from dictatorship to democracy. Negotiations & elections are the breakthroughs that lead to more democratic outcomes.