Sharing Research and Reports via the Commons Library
How the Commons Social Change Library can help academics and researchers share their work more effectively with campaigners and improve impact.
How the Commons Social Change Library can help academics and researchers share their work more effectively with campaigners and improve impact.
Learn about the story and the tactics (protests, hunger strikes) that led to Mongolia’s change from authoritarianism to democracy.
How do you start a campaign for social change? Learn how to create a campaign using tools such as the Spectrum of Allies.
What are the facts about social change and social movements? Daniel Hunter myth busts common misconceptions about how change happens.
Learn all about tactics for your campaigns including how to adapt their tone for different events and explore different examples.
Learn how organisers recruit and build the leadership capacity of others with the Ladder of Engagement.
Take inspiration from this Civil Rights Movement story about how to build movement capacity and structure. Learn about Ella Baker and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC.
Exploring the link between climate activism and its impact on our mental and physical health including positive and negative health experiences.
Learn about the 6 characteristics of the Knitting Nannas, groups of cheeky, disorganised, supportive older women activists against fracking.
Learn how to map a movement to help understand the landscape, the other players, what’s missing, what’s most needed, and where things like power imbalances and conflicts are causing problems.
Read a book excerpt from United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia which discusses women’s resistance to workplace exploitation.
Understand the four roles of activism (Bill Moyer) that show up in Palestine solidarity and the movement to end genocide.
Article about radical imagination by YouthxYouth explores and highlights capacities that we can develop to foster conscious activism.
Prefigurative politics in practice serves as a powerful catalyst for transformative social change. Here are examples and strategies.
In this guide from the Activist Handbook they explain how to deal with activist burnout and how to prevent it.
Explore a collection of digital organizing frameworks and models by Tectonica, a movement building agency.
Explore a collection of resources on movements, organising and transformational politics in the digital age by Tectonica.
Explore a collection of resources from Tectonica about technology and artificial intelligence and their relationship to movement politics.
Research from surveys & interviews (over 1000 organisations) on the state of digital organising and online campaigns/activism across Europe.
How do you Develop a Social Change Strategy? Explore and learn from Tectonica’s method for social change strategy.