Speeches and Presentations

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Understanding and Assessing Your Organization’s Strategic Capacity

Watch this webinar recording to understand and asses your organization’s strategy capacity. Use strategy to build and win political power.

Designing Powerful Teams with Ruth Wageman

Watch this recording of Ruth Wageman to learn how you can put in place the 6 conditions that make it more likely to create a great team.

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Projecting Power: Visual Strategy for Movements

Webinars on visual strategy will help you make a plan to create the images we need to win. You’ll be ready to tell a bolder story in the street, maximizing threat to power and making actions more welcoming and joyful.

Don’t wait until a crisis hits: Get your Organization ready for a Rapid Response Campaign

Webinar about the ins and outs of rapid-response campaigning. Learn the steps to integrate rapid-response infrastructure into your workflow.

Build More Powerful Campaigns with Social Science

Watch this webinar to learn some of the essential takeaways to improve your organizing with insights from social science.

Turning Grassroots Activism Into Durable Political Power

Watch this webinar to learn the basics of social movement theory and how those insights can be applied to building durable political power.

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The Race Class Narrative: A race forward messaging framework to engage the base and persuade the middle

Watch a video on Race Class Narrative – an approach that weaves together economic empowerment, racial justice, and gender equity.

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Learn how Toys R Us workers won a historic $20 million hardship fund from Wall Street

Learn how to build and grow online communities and develop an online-to-offline organizing model to move your people to action.

Reflections on Sunrise Movement’s Strike Circle Program: Learn How We Created Hundreds of Local Teams

A webinar from PowerLabs about how the Sunrise Movement created hundreds of local teams and grew their movement.

Learn how Cosecha raised over $1 million for undocumented immigrants affected by the pandemic

Want to know how to run a large scale volunteer led phonebank? Learn from the Sunrise Movement and how they managed their teams.

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Lessons learned from Campaigning to popularize and win the Green New Deal

This webinar covers Sunrise Movement’s campaign for a Green New Deal with special focus on the planning and analysis that informed action.

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Beer Strikes: A History of Hotel Boycotts in Australia, 1900-1920

Watch this video presentation about beer strikes and the history of hotel / pub boycotts in Australia in the early 1900s.

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.

Guide for Trainers about Organizing, Narrative, Campaign and Movement Building

An array of training resources for organizing, public narrative, campaigning trainers and coaches collated by the Leading Change Network.

Guide to Public Narrative from the Leading Change Network

Learn all about public narrative developed by Marshall Ganz and the story of self, us and now with this collection of tools and resources.

Lines of Resistance: What can the Old Left offer today’s creatives?

Lines of Resistance: A Symposium on Media, Arts & Activism that profiles research on the role of media and visual arts in activist movements.

Home Grown: Mapping Australian Organising Models

A new research project to map organising models in Australia, with examples from three organisations: Australian Conservation Foundation, Results Australia, and Amnesty International Australia. Presented at FWD+Organise 2021.