Violence and the Backfire Effect
There are ways that social movements and organizers can handle violence to their advantage and why violence can backfire.
There are ways that social movements and organizers can handle violence to their advantage and why violence can backfire.
People Power, Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Action NVA Trainers and Facilitators – Lists of training activities from Beautiful Trouble.
Conversation Guide about democracy from Living Room Conversations who use guided conversations to build understanding & transform communities.
Security & safety practices, Verbal De-escalation, Office and Organizational Safety, and Security for events and actions by Vision Change Win.
Better understand how the work of activists, bridge-builders, and organizers can reinforce one another as well as be in constructive tension.
Understand the key attributes of authoritarian systems, how authoritarians wield power, and ways to counter it.
Free, online video courses about disability advocacy, introduction and best practice, from the Disability Advocacy Resources Unit DARU.
Books, videos and podcasts to learn more about Judith “Judy” Heumann. She was a disability rights activist in the United States.
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is a collection of essays by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha published in 2018. It is an influential text for disability advocates and all people working to overcome systems of oppression.
This book is designed to help opponents of autocratic regimes become more strategic and more skilful in their struggle for democracy.
Three courses by 350.org about how to campaign and social movements. The courses are very user friendly, easy to follow and accessible.
Two pivotal events that set the platform for contemporary campaigning by Australian LGBTQI+ movements: union bans and 1978 Mardi Gras protest.
Lessons from Peace Brigades International and how it can be applied to understanding and resisting repression in an Australian context.
Guide élaboré pour fournir aux groupes militants des idées et des stratégies pour faire face au roulement des membres, en particulier dans le cas des groupes dirigés par des étudiants.
Read about the history of opposition to uranium mining in Australia in the 1970s and early 1980s regarding union bans and uranium exports.
To build an impactful climate justice movement able to face the challenges ahead we must first build cultures that care for the people doing the work.
Climate activists can start to build a stronger culture of care by taking burnout seriously and understanding its root causes.
Campaign case study to decarbonise road transport by a coalition of environmental & social change groups in Auckland, New Zealand / Aoteoroa.
How do I become an effective changemaker? Discover the 12 key habits or behaviours of successful changemakers.
What makes a protest movement successful? Nonviolence and numbers matter. See the research from the Social Change Lab.