Elections and Activism: Case Studies
A collection of case studies of how activists have intervened in elections collated by The Commons Social Change Library.
A collection of case studies of how activists have intervened in elections collated by The Commons Social Change Library.
Conference Proceedings from the FWD + Organise Conference 2021 held by Australian Progress for community organisers and digital campaigners.
Watch webinar which brought together a panel of activists to share their insights about the campaign to stop Independent Assessments.
A case study about what made anti-nuclear activism successful in Aotearoa New Zealand between the 1960s – 1980s.
Inspiring talk by Koketso Moeti, a South African activist & founder of the digital engagement platform and advocacy organisation amandla.mobi.
Case study of organising at a local level, Victorian Trades Hall Council’s Candidate School, focused on changing who gets elected to local office.
Learn about the success of a deep canvassing approach to rights for undocumented migrants and Medicare for All in Michigan.Â
What key ingredients enable movements to realise significant change? Learn from four movements and this report’s insights and findings.
Lessons learned from Fair Agenda’s campaigns on winning safe and legal access to abortion care in Australia.
Extinction Rebellion member Kyle R Matthews explores how scholarship regarding civil resistance campaigns seeking regime change has been used by environmental activists.
Case study of anti fracking campaign in Canada. Interviews with mobilization leaders presents ten practices deemed as particularly effective.
The practicalities and possibilities of using holograms to challenge and subvert anti-protest laws are explored in this case study from Spain.
An exploration of how creative activists combine humour with seriousness via stunts to create change, including case study – John Howard Ladies’ Auxiliary Fan Club.
New research considers what Australian climate activism – specifically climate change civil resistance – looks like, how it is changing, and what it is achieving.
Tasmanian Wilderness Society activists blockaded the Tasmanian Franklin below Gordon Dam site, proposed by the Hydro Electric Commission.
Australian Rainforest Action Groups blockaded ships bringing rainforest timbers logged in Sarawak, Malaysia.
Nestle artificial baby milks infant formula marketing Third World International Baby Food Action Network.
Hazara refugee asylum seekers engaged in hunger strikes to protest their continuing detention by Australia on Nauru.
Save Our Sons opposed military conscription for Australia’s role in the United States invasion and occupation of Vietnam.
Brisbane unionists organised a general strike in 1912 to protect and enhance the rights of tramways workers to organise.