From the Berlin Wall to Today — Lessons for Harnessing the Moment of the Whirlwind
What mainstream commentators get wrong about the historic uprisings of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and what civil resistance gets right.
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Books to Read if you are Interested in Activism, Social Change and Justice
A comprehensive and broad range of books to read if you are Interested in activism, campaigning, organising, social change and justice.
The Collaborative Impact Methods Kit
Welcome to the Collaborative Impact Methods Kit. This is a community-curated library of 500+ techniques and tools to unleash collective change.
The Power of Music for Social Change: Tips on Using Live Music to Promote Action
A plan and recommendations for musicians on using live music to promote action for social change from Face the Music Collective.
Fundraising Tracker Sheet: Template
Fundraising Tracker Sheet Template designed to help you and your organization plan, track, and forecast fundraising goals for the year.
Introduction to the Commons Social Change Library (Videos)
Two introductory videos where you can learn more about the Commons Library. The videos are presented by Iain McIntyre, Commons Librarian and Historian.
You talk, We die: The Battle for Victoria’s First Safe Injecting Facility – Book review
A campaign case study and book review of a rapid-fire campaign journey to establish a drug injecting centre in inner-city Melbourne.
Managing to Change the World: The Delegation Cycle
Learn how to management & delegate better with the Delegation Cycle from Alison Green’s and Jerry Hauser’s book Managing to Change the World.
Australian Blockading Handbooks
A collection of Australian Blockading Handbooks from the 1980s to the present including the Daintree, Franklin River, Jabiluka, etc.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Diversity Welcome
This activity makes visible the margins of the group and aims to support group members to feel seen and welcomed.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Spectogram – People Don’t Get Involved Because…
A tool to use in trainings on effective organising. This spectogram sets up the conversation on how to meet people where they are and move them into action.
Movement Lesson: How Do We Build Movements that Welcome People?
Learn from research and Joe Solomon’s personal experience with his brother’s transformation on how to bring people into your movement.
How to Win by Thinking like Your Opponent: Lessons from 350 Australia’s Campaign Against the Galilee Basin
This story illustrates 350.org Australia’s strategic decision-making process as they took on the largest coal export facility project in the world.
How Healthy Campaigns Respond in the Face of Bad News
Examples – from 350.org and beyond – about ways people handled campaign losses in healthy, soul-giving, and strategic ways.
How Collective Action Communication Frames are used to Drive Action on Climate Justice
Insights into how Australian environmental groups use collective action frames in their communication on climate justice.
Climate Justice: What does it mean?
Many environmental and social change groups call for climate justice, but what does ‘climate justice’ actually mean?
Activist Digital Security Practices
This Knowledge Roundup about digital security practices for activists is from the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN).
Supporting Grassroots Justice-oriented Activists Around the World: A Year’s Worth of Learnings
Grassroots activism often lacks funding & support but the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN) has brought together organizers to tackle common challenges and share resources.
Digital Tools Assessment Template
Handy template to assess the digital tools currently in your organization or campaign toolbox and how those tools can be leveraged to build or deepen capacities.
Introduction to Digital Organizing
A primer designed by re:power to help you understand how to best use digital organizing strategies and tactics to strengthen your electoral and advocacy organizing work.