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2023 – January
- Radical Human Resources Policies, Guides and Templates
- Questioning for Learning, Co-creation and Liberation
- Accessibility: Introduction to thinking about Events and Engagement
- Community Organising Program: Case Studies, Successes and Lessons Learned
- The Power of Organizing: Stories of Community Organizing Campaigns from across Europe
- Digital First Aid Kit
- An Unsettling Decision: A Legal and Social History of Native Title and the Mabo Decision
- Manejando la Renovación de Membresia en Grupos Activistas (Spanish)
- Changing the Conversation on Asylum: A Messaging Guide added to Framing Issues for Social Justice Impact: Directory of Messaging Guides
2022 – December
- Storytelling for Deep Impact Course
- ‘This case has made legal history’: Young Australians just won a human rights case against an enormous coal mine
- Team Effectiveness Conditions Framework
- Systems Thinking and Campaigning: An Interview with Nicky Ison
- From Little Things Big Things Grow: Events That Changed Australia – New dates and events added
- Four new podcasts from the Social Change Agency including:
- 025 The latest in participatory grantmaking and Shift The Power with Hannah Paterson
- 026 Leveraging pop culture for social change with Alice Sachrajda and Marzena Zukowska
- 027 Innovating funding with Chris Manion from the British Science Association
- 028 What makes an effective protest movement with James Ozden from Social Change Lab
2022 – November
- Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects
- How to Report on Conferences and Other Events
- The Craft of Campaigns: A Podcast for Organisers
- People’s History of Australia – updated with 5 new podcasts
- Constitutions: How To Build Durable Groups
- Subvertising: Sharing a Different set of Messages
- TED talk: The Secret Structure of Great Talks by Nancy Duarte
- Four Stages of Climate Action Framework
- Organising Model Structures: Influences, Challenges and Opportunities
- Support and Leadership in Organising Models
- People Within Organising Models
- The Shape of Organising Models
- Making your Activism Accessible
- Mining Resistance in Brazil
- Mining Resistance in India
- Activism and Pre-Suasion
- Street Medic Pro-Tips: Medical and First Aid Support at Protests and Direct Actions
2022 – October
- Against Fascism and War: Pig Iron Bob and the Dalfram Dispute, Port Kembla 1938
- Why North-South Intersectionality Matters in Climate Justice: Perspectives of South Asian Australian Youth Climate Activists
- Frontline Action on Coal FLAC: Ten Years on the Climate Frontline
- Writing and Using Campaign Case Studies Webinar
- The Art and Craft of Training Workshop Design
- The Creativity and Skill of Co-facilitation
- The Learning Zone Model
- The Spiral Model: A Learning Framework
- Tips for Designing Infographics
- Draftmen Go Free: A History of the Anti-Conscription Movement in Australia
- Defying Censorship: The New Theatre and Till The Day I Die
- Campaign Communications Course
- Australian Campaign Case Study: Divestment Campaign 2013 – 2021
- Australian Campaign Case Study: Stop Adani, 2012 – 2022
2022 – September
- Tips for Conducting Interviews about Sensitive Topics
- Campaign Strategy: Start Here
- Power and Power Mapping: Start Here
- Power Mapping to Design a Winning Campaign Strategy
- Pillars of Power Analysis: Identify the Institutions
- Legal Guides for Activists about Protests
- Films and Documentaries about Social Movement Struggles, Victories and Leaders (updated list)
- How to Organise a Protest March
- Franklin River campaign (includes information about the new Franklin movie)
- How to Conduct Interviews: Tips and Checklist
2022 – August
- Sponsorships: Acquiring Money for an Event or Organization
- Government Relations and Winning Reform – Australian Progress Webinars
- The Power Cube
- The Power Matrix
- Understanding Forms of Power
- New Collection – Campaign Bootcamp
- How to Change the Narrative
- A Framework for Thinking about Training and Behaviour Change
- Windows and Cycles: How Policy gets Made
- Changing The World: Vida Goldstein and the Women’s Political Association
- The Noble Art of Book Reviewing
- Activism and Campaign History: Start Here
- It’s all about Power:A Guide to Thinking Differently about Power for Solidarity in Social Change
- Why coalition building isn’t about the coalition: Listening, leading, and making change happen
- What makes a brilliant advocacy strategy?
- How to build public support with personal stories
- 5 lessons for success from real-world #BrandJam campaigns
2022 – July
- Before Action Reviews (BARs) and After Action Reviews (AARs)
- Deep Canvassing Scripts and Examples
- Door Knocking: A Case Study in Moving People to Take Action
- How Workers Defeated Anti-Strike Laws in the 1970
- Aboriginal Change Makers: Stories of Aboriginal Self-determination and Empowerment
- No War Opera House Graffiti Action: An Interview with Dave Burgess
- Jail Solidarity and Supporting Prisoners
- Global Atlas of Environmental Justice: Environmental Conflicts in Australia
- What we can learn from the Marriage Equality Campaign
- Organising Models Mapping Project: Survey Open!
- What Works to Increase Charitable Donations?
- Measuring your Impact
- Where’s the Power? Developing Your Theory of Change [Template]
- New Interventions Collection
- Brave Enough to say ‘No’: William White and the Fight against Military Conscription during the Vietnam War
- Fighting for the Foreshore: The Campaigns to Protect Mounts Bay and Kings Park
- Defending Unionism: The Weipa Dispute, 1995
- Women Fighting Back in the Depression Years
- The 1931 Perth Treasury Building Riot: Unemployed workers during the Great Depression
2022 – June
- Make the First 100 Days Count: Steps for Holding the New Government Accountable
- 2022 Australian Federal Election Analysis
- New Powerlabs collection
- Learning from Peers and the Past: Writing Case Studies
- How Emotions Mobilise and Sustain the Anti-Coal Seam Gas Movement
- A Better World is Paintable: How to make banners, stencils, street murals, parachute banners, and more!
- Conducting Interviews for Articles, Research & More
- Developing Data Capability in Your Not-for-Profit
- Tips for meeting MPs (or asking your members to)
- Eleven websites about the Australian Federal Government and MPs
- Reflections on Sunrise Movement’s Strike Circle Program: Learn How We Created Hundreds of Local Teams
- ‘Always look up’: Connecting Community for a Win against Gas
2022 – May
- Running Effective Campaign Debriefs
- Tips for Election Recovery
- Campaign Wellbeing Bingo
- Points of Intervention
- Australian Actions at Different Points of Intervention
- How Powerful Conversations Won Abortion Rights in Ireland
2022 – April
- Understanding Politics, Government, Elections and Activism Through Books for Australian Children
- Points of Intervention
- Australian Actions at Different Points of Intervention
- The 1972 Sydney Opera House Work-In
- Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1986
2022 – March
- Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse People in the Workplace
- “You can’t eat money”: An interview with Extinction Rebellion activist Jo Flanagan
- Volunteer with the Commons Library!
- When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice Between Dialogue & Resistance
- Films about Women and Social Justice and Change
- The Vietnam War
- Elections and Activism: Concepts and Tensions
- Elections and Activism: Campaign Skills
- Elections and Activism: Case Studies
- From little things big things grow: Events that changed Australia
- Consciousness Raising
- Understanding Politics, Government, Elections and Activism Through Books for Australian Children
- Lessons from the Campaign to Stop Independent Assessments Webinar
- Lines of Resistance: What can the Old Left offer today’s creatives?
- Australians block cricket and impede rugby tour of apartheid South Africa, 1971
- First Nations Resources: Start Here
2022 – February
- A guide to Power Analysis in Community Organising
- The Use of Covid-19 Marshals at Public Demonstrations
- Women’s Stories of Environmental Activism
- Tending the Soil: Lessons for Organizing by Ricardo Levins Morales
- Campaign Monitoring and Evaluation: Measuring What Matters
- Fast and First: Shifting Narratives through Rapid Response Media Campaigning
- How to Write a Powerful Submission to Government – in as little as 10 minutes!
2022 – January
- A beginner’s guide to a blockade camp by Nicola Paris, Counteract
- Digital Accessibility: Making Online Spaces Accessible
- Leading Change Network – Resource Center
- Resources About Australian Housing Justice and Unwaged Rights Campaigns
- bell hooks – Ideas for Social Justice
- Dealing with Far-Right Interventions in Left-Wing and Progressive Movements
- From Little Things Big Things Grow: Events That Changed Australia
- Commons Library Topic – Arts and Creativity
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