Reflections on Sunrise Movement’s Strike Circle Program: Learn How We Created Hundreds of Local Teams
A webinar from PowerLabs about how the Sunrise Movement created hundreds of local teams and grew their movement.
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Learn how Cosecha raised over $1 million for undocumented immigrants affected by the pandemic
Learn from this webinar from PowerLabs how Movimiento Cosecha raised over $1 million for undocumented immigrants in the US.
Lessons learned from Campaigning to popularize and win the Green New Deal
This webinar covers Sunrise Movement’s campaign for a Green New Deal with special focus on the planning and analysis that informed action.
Beer Strikes: A History of Hotel Boycotts in Australia, 1900-1920
Watch this video presentation about beer strikes and the history of hotel / pub boycotts in Australia in the early 1900s.
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1986
Radical Science Fiction – Watch videos from a symposium held in 2022 focused on the links between sci-fi and forms of activism.
“You can’t eat money”: An interview with Extinction Rebellion activist Jo Flanagan
Interview with an Extinction Rebellion activist about a protest against BlackRock in 2019. She explains how the action was conceptualised, organised & run.
Guide for Trainers about Organizing, Narrative, Campaign and Movement Building
An array of training resources for organizing, public narrative, campaigning trainers and coaches collated by the Leading Change Network.
Guide to Campaign and Movement Building by the Leading Change Network
Learn about campaigning, organizing, movement building with this list of resources and case studies from the Leading Change Network.
Guide to Public Narrative from the Leading Change Network
Learn all about public narrative developed by Marshall Ganz and the story of self, us and now with this collection of tools and resources.
Guide to Organizing from the Leading Change Network
A collection of organizing resources from the Leading Change Network including manuals, videos, tools, courses and training materials.
Lines of Resistance: What can the Old Left offer today’s creatives?
Lines of Resistance: A Symposium on Media, Arts & Activism that profiles research on the role of media and visual arts in activist movements.
Lessons from the Campaign to Stop Independent Assessments Webinar
Watch webinar which brought together a panel of activists to share their insights about the campaign to stop Independent Assessments.
The Advocates: Women within the Australian Environmental Movement
This book features nine never-before-told stories of remarkable women and their courageous pursuits of climate justice in Australia.
Tending the Soil: Lessons for Organizing
Ricardo Morales an artist and organiser from the United States shares his wisdom and lessons from over five decades of organising through eight lessons explained through videos and a zine featuring his beautiful artworks.
Accessible Online Meetings
Micro-course on making meetings inclusive and accessible for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing & people who are blind or vision impaired.
Local Power: Shifting Power at the Local Level – Candidate School
Case study of organising at a local level, Victorian Trades Hall Council’s Candidate School, focused on changing who gets elected to local office.
Deep Canvassing to Shift Hearts, Mind and Votes
Learn about the success of a deep canvassing approach to rights for undocumented migrants and Medicare for All in Michigan.
Creative activism: Hologram protest
The practicalities and possibilities of using holograms to challenge and subvert anti-protest laws are explored in this case study from Spain.
Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in Twenty First Century America – Summary & Related Resources
A collation of resources about the book – Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in Twenty First Century America – by Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna and Michelle Oyakawa.
Civil Resistance against Climate Change: What, when, who and how effective?
New research considers what Australian climate activism – specifically climate change civil resistance – looks like, how it is changing, and what it is achieving.