Coalition Building: Start Here
A guide to Coalition Building resources in the Commons Social Change Library including frameworks, training sessions, podcasts, and case studies.
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Working in Groups: Start Here
A guide from The Commons Social Change Library with collated resources to help groups work together better.
First Nations Resources: Start Here
A guide to First Nations campaigning and activist resources in the Commons Social Change Library including stories and perspectives.
Justice, Diversity & Inclusion: Start Here
Find a comprehensive list of resources from The Commons Social Change Library on diversity, inclusion and solidarity in social movements.
Easy Read Guides for Social Change
Easy Read Guides to learn about the commons library, social change, campaigning, organising, story and stories of campaigns and people.
Prefigurative Politics in Practice
The concept of prefigurative practices can help us identify and cultivate the many forms of activism that help to open up the space of possibilities from within which we can co-create better futures.
Legal Guides for Activists about Protests
A collection of legal guides and resources for activists about protesting in Australia
bell hooks – Ideas for Social Justice
bell hooks’ ideas have resonated widely. This resource-set focuses on her contributions to three key concepts in social justice movements: understanding intersecting structures of power; practising love, as a verb, as a pathway to justice; and the transformative power of teaching/learning as activism.
Cell Phones for Collective Action
Inspiring talk by Koketso Moeti, a South African activist & founder of the digital engagement platform and advocacy organisation amandla.mobi.
Fast and First: Shifting Narratives through Rapid Response Media Campaigning
Tips on how to run a rapid response media campaign and sustain momentum beyond the immediate media moment.
Tech Tricks and Trends for Your Pandemic Election Campaign
Sorcha Rochford on how NationBuilder supported customers in running an election campaign and a nonprofit in the midst of the pandemic, with practical takeaways you can apply in the lead up to our next federal election.
Quotes from Beyond the Gender Binary
Quotes which draw on contemporary experiences of living beyond the gender binary to inspire collective action, resistance and solidarity.
Writing Engaging Articles
A list of tips on how to write engaging articles from The Commons Social Change Library. Engage with topic, structure, tone and formatting.
Book Review: We Will Not Cancel Us
Review of the booklet We Will Not Cancel Us – And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown. Discusses transformative justice approaches as an alternative accountability measure to ‘canceling’ individual harm-doers.
Transformative Approaches to Conflict Resolution
This article introduces some of the key concepts of transformative justice and provides links to a wide array of resources. Transformative justice describes a systems approach to identifying root causes of conflict and responding to these as a community.