Reset Recommended Reading – October 2020
How do we keep fighting for a better future? Part of it is reflecting, inquiring and generating new ideas. Here are a list of resources to get you thinking.
Archive
Digital Security Guide for Everyone
This comprehensive digital security guide is designed for beginners with the aim of increasing security across the activist community.
Just get on with it: Talking about climate change and economics
This guide is designed to provide practical advice about how to effectively talk about climate change during a global pandemic and recession. It’s based on the findings of an extensive research project.
Inspiring Quotes from Women Leaders and Activists
Over 40 quotes by inspiring women leaders and activists from Australia and around the world about leadership, diversity and the environment.
Campaign Research 101
An introduction to the basics of campaign research for social change advocates. Campaign research helps you get the right message, in the right format, delivered by the right messengers, to the right audience through the right channels.
ChangeMakers Organising School – Season Two
Notes from training sessions hosted by ChangeMakers and Tipping Point April to July 2020. The training aims to equip organisers and campaigners to respond to challenges and continue their work during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Organising deeply during crisis
Adele Neale, co-director of the Community Organising Fellowship, makes the case for deep listening and learning as part of organising during times of crisis, including the current pandemic.
State of Progressive Tech in Australia 2020
A 2020 survey of more than 50 organisations across the progressive movement about technology by the Progressive Tech Network Australia.
Windows and Cycles: How Policy gets Made
This article helps advocates understand and intervene in policymaking more effectively by understanding the two main models of policymaking.
First Nations Justice
Hear from 3 First Nations leaders about the health and justice systems crisis, overpolicing and incarceration of First Nations people.
Resources About Australian Housing Justice and Unwaged Rights Campaigns
Resources focused on case studies and stories of how communities have organised to secure housing, financial and other support for the unwaged and those on low incomes.
Jim Munro and the Unemployed Workers Movement in the 1920s and 1930s
Jim Munro gives an account of how the Unemployed Workers Movement started and actions taken in the 1920s in Melbourne, Australia.
Squatting’s place in winning Emergency Housing, 1945-48
A talk about how the squatting of empty houses and military camps forced governments in Australia to provide emergency shelter in the 1940s.
The 1931 Perth Treasury Building Riot: Unemployed workers during the Great Depression
Unemployed workers during the Great Depression, the repression they faced, and the protests and tactics they used to fight for their rights.
Imagining a Future We Can Create Together
Hear from amazing speakers about First Nations Justice, rebuilding our economy, democracy and creating a safe climate for all.
When debt doesn’t matter: Spending to build an economy for the people
Hear from two experts about their visions for a bold new economy that centres investment in people, public services and sustainable industry.
The Future of Workers’ Rights
Behind-the-scenes lessons from the campaign to secure JobKeeper in response to widespread job losses from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Climate and Disaster Capitalism
Video about the risks of climate and disaster capitalism and how to work together to undermine attempts at cashing in on the Covid-19 crisis.
All in For A Feminist Recovery
Hear from these powerhouse women on their vision for a feminist response to the crises the world faces. Video from Virtual Progress 2020.
Problem Diagram
Use this diagram from Mobilisation Lab to chart the causes of the problem that your campaign aims to address and how that problem affects people differently. This tool helps identify the “root cause” to tackle in a campaign or even in a set of campaigns.