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book cover with illustration of swirling leaves. Text reads World Protests A study of Key protest issues in the 21st century

New Study Reveals a World of Growing Protests

A recent study verifies an increase in the size and frequency of protests and paints a fascinating picture of the characteristics of protests around the world.

Blockaders sitting on the road with Aboriginal Australian flags and a large banner at the back that reads - Ngiyaningu Maran Yaliwunga Ngara-Li - Our ancestors are always watching.

What Will It Take for the Climate Movement to Win?

Nick Beuret discusses the strategies required to solve the climate crisis… he argues for a focus on movement building and direct action.

Australian Actions at the Point of Assumption

Points of Assumption – A list of Australian examples of tactics and actions that have reframed debates and beliefs and made social change.

a group of people protesting on the street wearing face masks and holding their fists in the air. There is a banner in the back reading Black Lives Matter. The person at the front wearing an Australian Aboriginal flag is holding their phone.|a cigarette billboard ad for Dunhill cigarettes. Over the top of the ad it says Superior lung cancer?? Heart disease??|Protesters standing in front of arrivals and departure boards at airport they are framed in between two policeman.|Two mean walking past a large gate into a building.|two people lying in a railway track with banners. One banner reads FLAC - Frontline Action on Coal. Another banner lying in the middle of the tracks reads - BlackRock Stop funding ? destruction.|a group of protestors in the forest on dirt road blocking a bullzoer|a group of protestors with barcode stickers over their mouths. They are holding banners. One reads Make them accountable and features a skeleton dressed in a suit. Another banner reads Stop environmental and human rights abuses|A group of Aboriginal Australians protesting. There is a large chalkboard that reads Aborigines Conference Day of Mourning

Australian Actions at Different Points of Intervention

Australian examples of actions that intensify impact in terms of ensuring visibility, challenging opponents, and disrupting narratives.

Changing Beliefs Through Action at the Point of Assumption

How can activists reframe debates & beliefs? By challenging the assumptions that underpin them using powerful actions at points of intervention.

screenshot of book cover called Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction

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.

workers sitting on steps outside Opera House

The 1972 Sydney Opera House Work-In

Learn about the Sydney Opera House ‘work-in’ carried out by construction workers who expelled management & continued work under workers’ control.

Points of Intervention

Campaigners – Where is the best place to take action with the greatest impact? Learn about making change using points of intervention.

a group of men in work clothes covered in coal dust wearing hard hats with miners lamps on the hats

The Nymboida Coal Mine Takeover, NSW, 1975–1979

How workers at the Nymboida coal mine in NSW resisted mass sackings by taking over and running the mine themselves in 1975. firstly through an occupation and then via union ownership.

Three people at a table outside with white tablecloth that has word BlackRock on it. The people are eating fake money. A banner in the background says When the last tree is dead

“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.

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