How do we Encourage Activists to Celebrate Wins and come back from Losses?
How do we encourage activists to celebrate wins, and come back from losses using rest and reflection? Insights and learnings from Global Grassroots Support Network GGSN.
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Right-Sized Belonging: Six Practices For Organizers
A website and toolkit of 6 suggested practices for organizers and organizations to implement in their own spaces to create belonging.
Empowering Leaderful Organizing: Competencies & Tools
Empower your groups and movements with an A – Z list of training tools for organizing and activist work by Leaderful Organizing.
Democracy Undone: The Authoritarian’s Playbook
How populist nationalist leaders across various democracies are employing a playbook involving fear exploitation, institutional undermining, truth erosion, and more to erode democratic values and consolidate power.
Prophetic Witness Against the War Machine [The Peace Pilgrims and Pine Gap]
The story of the Peace Pilgrims nonviolent protest and arrest in 2016 at Pine Gap, an American military base in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Resourceful and Impactful Capacity Building
Learn about impactful capacity building approaches from the Global Grassroots Support Network GGSN Community.
Climate Activists in Australia are Learning How to Protect their Protest Rights
Australian climate activists have successfully navigated years of increasing protest criminalization, revealing strategies for all to follow.
Australia’s History of Workers’ Rights, Strikes and Campaigns
Learn about the history of Australian workers rights, strikes & campaigns from resources at the Australian Trade Union Institute ATUI Library.
Commons Conversations: Insights into Environmental Justice Movements in India with Radhika Jhaveri
A Commons Conversations Podcast featuring an interview with Radhika Jhaveri, an environmental justice activist in India.
Degrowth as a Concept and Practice: Introduction
An introduction to degrowth – the aims, character, values and principles of degrowth along with a comprehensive list of resources.
List of Radical, Alternative and Community Libraries
Here is a list of radical, alternative and community libraries in Australia and around the world.
Beyond Extractivism in Research with Communities and Movements
How can we move beyond research extractivism as justice focused scholars working with communities and movements? Here is a set of principles to help researchers design anti-extractivist research.
Practising Commoning
This article introduces commoning and provides a comprehensive resource list including tools for practicing commoning.
Essential Elements for Turning a Cause into a Movement: Lessons from the Suffrage Struggle for Today’s Activists
3 essential elements activists today can learn from the women’s suffrage movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Speaking Out Against Bigoted, Dehumanizing Rhetoric: What We Can Do
This guide documents the surge in antisemitic and Islamophobic hate incidents, explains the link between rhetoric and violence, and provides suggestions and resources to take action.
Interactive, Self Paced Mini Courses on Organising: Global Organizing and Leadership Development GOLD
These online courses explore the foundations of organising, distributed leadership, social movements, and the concept of the Movement Cycle.
1/6: The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol Succeeded?
1/6 The Graphic Novel is a comic about the US Capitol attacks in 2021. It asks what if the insurrection had been successful?
Campaigns to End Logging in Australia (Commons Conversations Podcasts)
Listen to two podcasts from the Commons Conversations about campaigns, coalition building and citizen science to end logging in Australia.
The Neutrality Trap : Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change (Book)
The message at the heart of The Neutrality Trap is that, when it comes to the important social issues that face us today, avoiding conflict is a mistake.
How Rural Organizing Can Build Power
This report about rural organizing in North Carolina, United States outlines lessons, actions and recommendations for rural organizers and communities in organizing and building political power.