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2026
2026 – Feb
- Creative Resistance: Lessons from Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Digital Security Checklists for Activists
- Prepare for a Protest Checklist
- Narrative Research and Solidarity Infrastructure
- ToolBox: Building a Movement Mindset
- How Civil Society Organisations can Support Movements
- Towards a People’s Peace: How Social Movements Can Help Create Just and Non-Violent Futures
- Context Analysis on Social Movements
- GOLD Shorts: Videos About Organizing & Strategy
- Interactive, Self Paced Mini Courses on Organising: Global Organizing and Leadership Development GOLD
2026 – Jan
- Tactics Toolkit
- How Gen Z Movements Around the Globe shared Tactics and Challenges
- Supporter Engagement
- The Transformative Potential of Community Organizing and its Challenges: The Case of Living Gyál, Hungary
- منابع فارسی زبان برای معترضان در ایران | Persian-language Resources for Protesters in Iran
2025
2025 – Dec
- Art, Anxiety and Activism
- Problem Framing Canvas Handbook and Template
- Learn from George Lakey: Activist, Strategist, Trainer and Author
- Inspiring Quotes from George Lakey: Activist, Strategist, Trainer and Author
- The Wisdom of George Lakey: Insights from a Life of Activism
- Lessons for Campaigners from Zohran Mamdani’s Victory
- Workers Rights Hub: Start here
- Gig Workers, Organising, Unions and Algorithms: A Curated Collection
- When Flight Attendants fought the Airline Industry and Won
- Chicano! The Struggle in the Fields: Documentary about the Farm Workers Movement
- Narrative Change for Worker Rights: Directory of Messaging Guides
- Learning about Racial Capitalism
- Social Cooperatives
- The Fall (and Rise?) of Unions in the US
2025 – Nov
- Tactic: Bird-dogging
- Youth Movements as a Unique form of Resistance
- Creative Community-led Action: The Busted Bus Stops Campaign
- The Librarians: Resources to Resist Repression
- Guide to Hope-based Communication: How to use the 5 Hope-based Shifts
2025 – Oct
- Tactic: Noncooperation
- What is the Story of your Campaign? Visioning Template
- Agency Podcast: Stories of Social Change
- Added Future Over Fear Toolkit: Tools to Build a Different Story to Framing Issues for Social Justice Impact: Directory of Messaging Guides
- Insights from the Frontlines of Kenya
- Protecting Whistleblowers and NGOs from getting SLAPPed
- Power and Protect Safety Library
- Tomorrow Movement: The Momentum Organising Framework in Australia
- Organising your Local Community: One Million Rising’s Campaign against Authoritarianism
- Communicating Palestine: Framing & Messaging Tips
- Exploring Social Movement Frameworks
- New framing guides on addiction and autism and added to Framing Issues for Social Justice Impact: Directory of Messaging Guides
- Accountability Checklist – Charter for Equitable Relationships between NGOs, Funders and Grassroots Groups
- Commons Conversation: Resisting Genocide and Settler-Colonialism With Noura Mansour and Tarneen Onus-Browne
- Tactic: Accountability Session
- Changemakers: Radical Strategies for Social Movement Organising
- Added Harnessing Our Power To End Political Violence and Repression Training to Harnessing Our Power to End (HOPE) Political Violence
- Added new documentary Walkout to Films and Documentaries about Social Justice, Movements, Struggles, Victories and Leaders
- Added Youth Organizing Financial Dashboard Template to Templates, Worksheets and Checklists for Changemakers
2025 – Sep
- Weaving the Threads Together: How to Document Your Campaign
- Positive Tipping Points Toolkit
- The Rebel’s Notebook: Data-Driven Strategy for Activism
- All about Dr Mary Graham: Elder, Aboriginal Philosopher, Educator, Community Development Leader
- Effective Climate Justice Conversations: Guidance and Tactical Tools
- Climate Justice Conversations in Action: 11 Case Studies
- From First Chat to Long-Term Changemaker: How to Grow and Sustain Volunteers in Climate Conversations
- Beyond Headcounts: Evaluating Climate Conversations for Real Impact
- Talking Change: How Climate Conversations can Shift Public Attitudes and Help Build Movements
- Fighting Fire with Listening: How Climate Conversations can help Tackle Misinformation
- Tactic: Tripods
- Free Tools for your Digital Campaigning Programs
- The Librarians documentary added to Films, and Documentaries about Social Justice, Movements, Victories and Leaders
- Safe Direct Action in Indonesia: How a small group disrupted a major coal mine shareholder’s meeting added to 350 Organising Story Telling Lab
- Event Checklist Template by Monique Tovo added to Templates, Worksheets and Checklists for Changemakers
2025 – Aug
- The Commons Directory of Australian MPs and Senators
- Insurrectionary Uprisings: A Reader in Revolutionary Nonviolence and Decolonization – Book Review
- Tiny Sparks and Turning Points Podcast
- Protecting Civic Space: A Primer – How to Prepare your Organization for Politicized Government Investigations
- A Collection of Zines: Powerhouses for Social Change
- Building Power with Land Defenders
- Climate Change and the Affordability Crisis in the Global North – Zine and Report
- Templates, Worksheets & Checklists for Changemakers
- Assessing Risk: Mini Toolkit – Risk assessments to address safety threats, Vision Change Win
- Risk and Resilience Analysis Worksheet, Building a Resiliency Network Tookit, OverZero, pgs 30 – 33
- Risk matrix (p23), Personal security plan (p 51), Workbook on Security: Practical Steps for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, Frontline Defenders
- Community Organising: Event Promotion Tips and Checklist, Australian Conservation Foundation
- Event Checklist Template, Monique Tovo
- Remembering Paul Coe: First Nations Activist
- Democracy Narrative Resources
- Telling the Story of Civil Society: A Toolkit | Creando Narrativas sobre la Sociedad Civil (Spanish – Español)
- As Many Stories as Families: A Guide to Redefining Narratives in Latin America | Tantas historias como familias: Guía para redefinir narrativas en América Latina (Spanish – Español)
- We Need New Strategies to Respond to the Far Right
2025 – Jul
- 3CR Podcaster’s Handbook
- From Zero to Hero: Digital Infrastructure Checklist for Small Donor Fundraising
- How to use Discord: A Guide for Progressive Organizers, Parties & Movements
- Making Political Impact through Podcasts, ECDA
- From Grassroots to Policy: The Inspiring Achievements of Pink Box in Poland
- The Death of the Follower: Progressive Organizing in the Age of Algorithmic Discovery
- Digital Campaigning in Europe: A Series of Articles
- Learn from Joanna Macy
- Yes We Can! Stories of Change | ¡Sí Se Puede! Historias del Cambio (Podcast in Spanish | Podcast in Español)
- Civil Resistance and the 3.5% Rule: An Overview
- Confronting Authoritarianism and Organizing Resistance: Case Studies and Lessons Learned
2025 – Jun
- The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
- Why didn’t we Stop the War? An Evaluation of the Campaign against the Iraq War
- Pro-Democracy Global Narrative and Message Guide
- Care and be Cared for through Disaster
- The Impacts of Climate Activism
- Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe
- How to Make Change Happen: Free, Online Course
- Stories from the Frontlines: First Nations Voices on Climate Justice (Webinar)
- The Proper Form of Politeness: Quotes from the Pen of T-Bone Slim
- Scouting Manual for Activists
- Insider Outsider Activism: Films to Inspire
- Tactic: Sit-in
- The Women’s Suffrage Petition – The Monster Petition
- How to Start a Movement: TED Talk Video
- Streetwise & Steady: A Workbook for Action Peacekeepers or Event Marshals, Choose Democracy
- Communicating Now: Framing for Health Equity
- What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Teaches about Resisting Authoritarianism
- Citizen George Documentary added to Films and Documentaries about Social Justice, Movements, Victories and Leaders (about George Lakey)
2025 – May
- Empowering & Supporting Storytellers: Tools for NGOs & Advocates
- A Guide to Hope-based Communications
- Exploring Narrative Practices for Broad-based Movements in Contexts of Democratic Decline
- Narrative Spices: An Invitational Guide for Flavorful Human Rights
- The Paradigm Shift Podcast
- To Engage or Not to Engage with the Far Right? How to Navigate the Shifting Political Landscape in Europe
- 5 Tools to Decide on your Campaign’s Next Steps
- 10 Keys to Mobilise Strategic Communications Coalitions
- Bad River: A Story of Defiance documentary added to Films and Documentaries about Social Justice, Movements, Victories and Leaders
- Intersectional Policy Development
- Unpacking Colonial Assumptions
- The Movement Compass and Worksheet
- Charter for Equitable Relationships between NGOs, Funders and Grassroots Groups
- Disinformation in the Digital Age: Practical Tips for Young People
- Disinformation in the Digital Age – Video Series
- Reparations Narrative Tools and Resources
- Reframing Guidelines: A Step-by-Step Approach to Building a Narrative Change Campaign
- Narrative Change as an Advocacy Approach
- Measuring Effectiveness of Narrative Change Campaigns
- Safeguarding Civic Space: Harnessing Narrative Change to Restore Public Trust in Civil Society Organisations
- Moving Mindsets:A Playbook for Building Momentum
- Keeping Each Other Safe When Virtually Organizing Mutual Aid
- Mutual Aid: An Introduction
- Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days
- Notes on a Cultural Strategy for Belonging
- Message Testing Methods for Narrative Change
- 100 Campaigns that Change the World
2025 – Apr
- Disrupt Burrup Hub: Campaign Evaluation
- From Selma to Montgomery: How Civil Rights Leaders Made Political Violence Backfire
- New additions to – Framing Issues for Social Justice Impact: Directory of Messaging Guides
- Tactic: Flash Mobs
- Organising in the Arab World: Resources from Ahel
- Frameworks for Engaging with Visible Power
- Factors to Consider when Shaping Strategic Choices
- Definitions of Organising Models
- Narrative Change: A Working Definition (and Some Related Terms)
- Transforming Narrative Waters: Growing the Practice of Deep Narrative Change in the UK
- Toward New Gravity: Charting a Course for the Narrative Initiative
2025 – Mar
- Just Power: A Guide for Activists and Changemakers
- Love Notes to Our Social Justice Leaders: A Workbook to Support Your Reflective Leadership Practice
- Finding the Balance: Community Organising Models in Australia and New Zealand
- How to do a Successful and Safe Banner Drop
- Campaign Strategy: Training and Planning Tools
- Training and Planning Tools
- Where to Fight Back: Lessons from US Anti-coup Actions
- Protests: Start Here
- How to Plan a Campaign: Video Series
- Conflict: Training and Planning Tools
- Bluesky 101: How-to Guide for Progressives
- Health Equity Narrative House
2025 – Feb
- Making a Scene & Making Sense – The Impact of Disruption & Action Logic
- Finding Joy in Activism, Resistance and Movements: 12 Podcasts to Inspire
- Archiving the Voices of Change: A Radical Recordkeeping Guide for Activists, Archivists, and Disruptors
- What are Wicked Problems?
- Case Study: Organising in Rising Tide, 2022-24
- Building Union and Climate Movement Coalitions
- Tactics Used by Fossil Fuel Companies to Suppress Critique and Obstruct Climate Action
- Lessons in Success from Nuclear Campaigns
- Nuclear Truth Project Protocols
- The Visibility Brigade: A Template For Activism
- Power: Training and Planning Tools
- Narrative and Storytelling: Training and Planning Tools
- Narrative, Storytelling and Messaging Directories and Libraries
- Resisting Authoritarianism
- Coaching for Leadership
- Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically says Yes
- Power and Connection – Exploring how Organisations Engage with Communities
- Conflict Transformation in the Personal and in the Political
- UK Activists Resource Hub
- Disruptive Protest Tactics: Helpful or Harmful?
- 5 Things We’ve Learned About Effective Campaigning
- Commons Conversations Podcast: Insights into Activism – Series 3
Including:
2025 – Jan
- FWD+Organise 2024: Conference Resources including
- From Struggle to Victory: The Role of Civil Society in the Last French Election
- Fighting Back Against Authoritarianism in Brazil
- Impact Evaluation in Campaigns and Social Movements
- Working with Influencers: #NurseTok Case Study
- Organising Across Difference: Coalition Building to Win
- What’s Next for First Nations Justice?
- The Purple Pingers Guide to Digital Organising
- Community Organising: Event Promotion Tips and Checklist
- Storytelling with Community: Applying Co-design Principles in Collaborative Storytelling for Advocacy Campaigns
- Green Islam: Shifting Hearts and Minds on Climate in Indonesia
- Surviving the Pile-On: Navigating Online Culture Wars
- Making Messages Matter: Media Training Masterclass
- Resilience and Post-election Management: Sustaining Democracy Movements
- How Disruptive Climate Campaigners use Social Media
- How Disruptive Climate Campaigners use Mainstream Media
- Minority Voices in Victoria, Australia: A Resource List
- Who was Vida Goldstein?
- Race Class Narrative Messaging Guides and Checklist
- Transformational Ethical Story Telling (TEST) Framework
- Movement Memo – Developing Strategic Capacity and Cultivating Collective Care: Towards Community Power
2024
2024 – Dec
- Decolonizing Climate Action Toolkit |Décoloniser L’action Climatique (French – Français)
- How Civil Society can Counter Disinformation
- Photo and Video Content Brief
- Feminist Influencing Basket of Resources
- The Best Organizing Strategy You’ve Never Heard Of: Why Fan Activism Has the Power to Radically Change Our World
- Storytelling, Narrative and Messaging Courses
- Narrative Change: Start Here
- Inspiring Narrative Change Quotes
- Funding Narrative Change, Power and Systems
- Conditions to Flourish: Understanding the Ecosystem for Narrative Power
2024 – Nov
- 2024 US Election: Where to Next?
- Degrowth Festival Resources
- Hope & Solidarity in Global Student Movements for Palestine
- Defending Democracy with Humor and Dilemma Actions Tactics
- 10 Ways to be Prepared and Grounded now Trump has Won
- A New Wave of Movements Against Trumpism is Coming
- What Trump’s Re-Election Means for Democracy: A Call for Transformation, Not Just Defense
- A Guide to Prebunking: A Promising Way to Inoculate Against Misinformation
- Disinformation Risk Management
- Storytelling and Evidence-based Policy: Lessons from the Grey Literature
- Building Narrative Power for Racial Justice and Health Equity
- The Role of Narrative Change in Influencing Policy
- The Best Organizing Strategy You’ve Never Heard Of: Why Fan Activism Has the Power to Radically Change Our World
2024 – Oct
- Erica Chenoweth on 5 Paths Social Movements Can Take in a Disinformation Era
- Make Your Training Work for Neuro Spicy Brains
- Pro-Democracy Organizing Against Autocracy in the United States
- Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Websites for People-Based Change
- Running a Street Stall
- Conversation Tips for Stalls, Events & Door Knocking
- The Anti-Trans Disinformation Handbook
- Lessons from European Election 2024: Toolkits for Organic Social Media
- Encouraging Story Sharing
- How do you Build a Coalition despite Frictions?
- Simplifying your Campaign Message
2024 – Sept
- Disinformation vs Misinformation: Definitions & Types
- Skill Up: Learn to Identify Disinformation with Games and Courses
- Just Us Journal: Nothing Sounds as Good as the Truth Feels
- Menstrual Pies! Creative Activism against Far-Right Bigotry During the 1970s
- Templates, Worksheets & Checklists for Changemakers
- Communications and Media: Start Here
- Choosing your Strategic Goal
2024 – Aug
- Protest in Peril: Our Shrinking Democracy
- Emergent Strategy
- How to Make Sure Your Disruptive Protest Helps Your Cause
- Why Protests Work, Even When Not Everybody Likes Them
- The Commons Social Change Library: A Comparative Analysis of Social Change Resource Hubs
- Far Right Violence: A Messaging Guide
- Effective Activist Strategic Plans
- Harnessing Our Power to End (HOPE) Political Violence
- Outrage Management in Israel-Palestine
- Responding to the Racist UK Riots
- How to Ensure your Trainings Lead to the Results You Want
- How to Make Better Decisions Together
- How to do Relational Organizing: Video, Tip Sheet and Work Sheet
- Organising for Effective Non Violent Actions
- What if Trump (or Harris) wins? What will you do? (Updated since Biden’s resignation)
2024 – July
- Choosing a Campaign Goal
- Strengthen a Campaign with Dilemma Demonstrations
- Understand Your Role in Social Change
- The Power of Reaching Out to Others: Organizing One on One Meetings
- Thriving Together: The Science of Motivation
- How to Design Volunteer Jobs to be More Motivating
- 10 Things You Need to Know to Stop a Coup
- The Basics of Digital Campaigning and Fundraising: Video Shorts
- Lessons from Occupy Wall Street
- Countering Disinformation Collection
- How To: Dealing with Disinformation
- Mental Health in the Palestine Solidarity Movement: Supporting Each Other
- Set Up Letter Campaigns for Contacting Australian MPs on Action Network
- Navigating AI’s Role in Politics, Campaigns, and Advocacy: The TON Reading List
- People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal by Marshall Ganz
- Movement Learning Catalyst: A Guide to Learning for Systemic Change
- Watch Inspiring Activist and Protest Speeches
- Organizing in Increasingly Repressive Environments: Pushing Against Criminalization
- Movement Power: The Science of Nonviolent Direct Action
- Plugging People In: Orienting New Members & Volunteers to a Local Group
- Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements
- New Collection – European Center for Digital Action
- Six Golden Rules for Engaging Campaigns
- Reimagining Your Annual Report: A Comprehensive Guide for Progressive NGOs
- Disinformation 101
- Expect the Unexpected: How to Prepare and Implement a Rapid Response Campaign
- Mobilizing for Change: An Election Campaign Guide for Single-issue Organizations
2024 – June
- Refugees Welcome: An Organising Case Study
- What if Trump (or Biden) wins? What will you do?
- Planning a Global Week of Action
- A Tactic Typology
- The Power to be a Changemaker: Resources for Teachers and Students
- Social Justice Resources for Teachers: Topic Guide
- Ingredients for Wins: Lessons from Successful Climate Justice Campaigns in North America
- Working with Conflict in our Groups: A Guide for Grassroots Activists
- Why Conflict Happens in Social Change Groups
- Taking Effective Action to Deal with Conflict in your Group
- Nonviolent Direct Action as Social Parable
- Protest Camps: Tips for Set Up & Strategy
- Lessons from the Tents: What Protest Camps Can Teach Our City
- The Long History of Protest Camps
- Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice
- Organising! A Remedy for Despair: How Workers at the University of Melbourne won back $45 million in Stolen Wages
- Movement Power: A Toolkit for Building People Power in a Time of Crisis (Zine)
- Resources for Marshals at Protests and Rallies
- Films and Documentaries about Social Justice, Movements, Victories and Leaders – 2 new documentaries added – Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line and Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
2024 – May
- Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
- How Rural Organizing Can Build Power
- Human Rights Act Messaging Guide added to Framing Issues for Social Justice Impact: Directory of Messaging Guides
- For Educators Grappling with Student Protests, Here’s how to Play a Supporting Role
- Inside the Student Movement that Forced Ireland’s Trinity College to Divest from Israel
- Overcoming Despair and Apathy to Win Democracy
- In Australia, Fitness Workers Are Organizing
- Conflict is Inevitable: Knowledge Roundup
- Fixing our Democracies and Winning Elections in the Age of Junk Politics: A Guide to Transformational Campaigning
- Palestine Solidarity Conference Resources
- Climate Organizing Shorts Podcast: Conversations with Climate Organizers
- Jane McAlevey: Organizing Extraordinaire
- No More Gendered Violence: Resources to Support Campaigning
- By Us, For Us: Disability Messaging Guide
- Building Narratives for a Caring Green Economy: A Feminist Green New Deal Coalition Report added to Framing Issues for Social Justice Impact: Directory of Messaging Guides
- The Dilemma of Growth in the Group: Primary and Secondary Systems
- How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide For Southern Memory Workers
- Changemakers’ Toolkit
- Mediation for Movements: Managing Intra-Movement Conflict
- Sharing Research and Reports via the Commons Library
2024 – Apr
- The Impact of Climate Activism on Health: Exploring Positive and Negative Effects
- Climate Activism Coping Strategies: 5 tips for mental and physical health
- Disability, Mobility and Climate Justice
- How to Map a Movement
- Cheeky and Disorganized: Nannagogy and the Knitting Nannas
- Health and Climate Activism
- Deep Canvassing with Montana Burgess, Climate Organizing Shorts, 2024 (Podcast) added to Deep Canvassing Scripts and Examples
- How to Create a Campaign
- Social Change Myths
- Building Movement Capacity and Structure: Ella Baker and SNCC
- Building Leadership Capacity: The Ladder of Engagement
- Campaign Tactics
- Authoritarianism to Democracy: The Story of Mongolia
2024 – Mar
- Radical Imagination: Developing Conscious Activists’ Capacities
- Prefigurative Politics in Practice: Examples and Strategies
- How to Create your own Podcast
- Tech, including Artificial Intelligence, and its Relationship to Movement Politics
- The Horizon of Possibility: Tectonica’s Method for Social Change Strategy
- The Definitive Distributed Organizing Guide
- Digital Organizing Frameworks and Models
- Movements, Organising and Transformational Politics in the Digital Age
- Making “Theory of Change” Useful in Your Campaigning
- Defiance Creates Hope Zine: Grassroots Action for a Free Palestine
- Activist Burnout Guide with Videos
- Replace Endless Actions with Campaigns
- Pillars Of Support – The Upside Down Triangle
- Rural and Remote Communities Climate Organizing Toolkit
- Protest Law in NSW, Parliamentary Research Service (NSW), 2024 added to Legal Guides for Activists about Protests
- Board Members, We Need to Talk About Palestine
- What to do when we ‘Lose’
- You’re not Failing, Social Change can Be Slow
- How do we Encourage Activists to Celebrate Wins and come back from Losses?
- What Makes People Tick: The Three Hidden Worlds of Settlers, Prospectors and Pioneers
- What Makes People Tick? Exploration of a Values Model
- Magic Boxes: Campaign Planning Tool
- Making A Campaign Concept: Campaign Planning Star Diagram
- I don’t really have a ‘Theory of Change’ but these things will help
- 12 Basic Guidelines for Campaign Strategy
- How to Win Campaigns: Communications for Change
- Anytime is a Good Time to Create a Group: Tips from Disability Networks
- Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions – Book Review
2024 – Feb
- Cosmo-local Work: Using Commons Based Practices for Equitable and Sustainable Living
- Right-Sized Belonging: Six Practices For Organizers
- Exploring Tools to Empower Leaderful Organizing
- New People’s History Podcast: Episode 17 – Years of rage: social conflict in the Malcolm Fraser era
- Democracy Undone: The Authoritarian’s Playbook
- Climate Activists in Australia are Learning How to Protect their Protest Rights
- Prophetic Witness Against the War Machine [The Peace Pilgrims and Pine Gap]
- Resourceful and Impactful Capacity Building
- Degrowth as a Concept and Practice: Introduction
- Practising Commoning
- AI Technologies, Campaigning and Social Change (Commons Conversations Podcasts)
- Commons Conversations: Insights into Environmental Justice Movements in India with Radhika Jhaveri
- List of Radical, Alternative and Community Libraries
- Beyond Extractivism in Research with Communities and Movements
- Essential Elements for Turning a Cause into a Movement: Lessons from the Suffrage Struggle for Today’s Activists
- Interactive, Self Paced Mini Courses on Organising: Global Organizing and Leadership Development GOLD
- Conversation Guide: Trust in Elections (Local)
2024 – Jan
- 1/6: The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol Succeeded?
- Speaking Out Against Bigoted, Dehumanizing Rhetoric: What We Can Do
- New Commons Conversations Podcast Episodes including:
- Episode 1: Insights into Indigenous Solidarity, Creativity and Social Justice with Laniyuk and Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira
- Episode 2: Movement Success, Durability and Research with Professor Winnifred Louis
- Episode 3: Insights from Disability Campaigning with Rochelle Porteous
- Episode 4: Women and Leadership in the Environment Movement with Judy Lambert and Victoria McKenzie-McHarg
- Episode 5: Building Coalitions and Campaigns to Protect Forests with Jess Beckerling
- Episode 6: Emerging AI Technologies and Campaigning with Hannah O’Rourke
- Episode 7: Citizen Science and Big Tree Hunting with Alice Hardinge
- Films and Documentaries about Social Justice, Movements, Victories and Leaders – New films added including Rustin, Uproar, Queendom, Finite, Powerlands, Black Cockatoo Crisis, You can go now, the Noble Guardian.
- Future of Governance Toolkit
- Learn a Goal Setting Technique: Objectives and Key Results OKRs
- The Neutrality Trap : Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change (Book)
2023
2023 – Dec
- Campaigns that changed South Australia
- Campaigns that changed Tasmania
- Campaigns that changed the Northern Territory
- Campaigns that changed Western Australia
- Framing Issues for Social Justice Impact: Directory of Messaging Guides – New guides added – Reframing the National Security Narrative and From the Indictment to the Courts: Freedom Over Fascism Toolkit
- 10 Tips for how the Climate Movement can Improve Experiences for Activists with Diverse Health Needs
- How to Mobilise in a Closed Country when you’re Working Remotely
- What is a Social Movement? Social Movement Definitions
- Making Strategic Planning Flow: An Organising Story-telling Lab on how Europe made its Process Work
- Movement Moments: Telling Australian Stories (Videos)
- 3 Key Insights for Building a Powerful and Loving Movement against Oppression in Palestine-Israel
- Palestine 101: Videos, Factsheets, Books & More
- From the Berlin Wall to Today — Lessons for Harnessing the Moment of the Whirlwind
2023 – Nov
- Books to Read if you are Interested in Activism, Social Change and Justice
- The Power of Music for Social Change: Tips on Using Live Music to Promote Action
- Collaborative Impact Methods Kit
- Fundraising Tracker Sheet: Template
- Jean Young, Kath Williams and the Fight for Equal Pay
2023 – Oct
- Introduction to the Commons Social Change Library (Videos)
- Introduction to Digital Organizing
- Digital Tools Assessment Template
- The 2023 Voice Referendum Outcome: A Messaging Guide
- (Dis)solution Magazine
- Climate Activism: Start Here
- Labour Power and Strategy: How to Read Womack
- People’s History of Australia Podcast. 3 new episodes:
- Episode 14 – How anti-racists defeated Pauline Hanson in the 90s
- Episode 15 – Fighting for the right to protest in 1970s Queensland
- Episode 16 – Resistance and rebellion in convict Australia
- Managing to Change the World: The Delegation Cycle
- You talk, We die: The Battle for Victoria’s First Safe Injecting Facility – Book review
- Australian Blockading Handbooks
- Movement Lesson: How Do We Build Movements that Welcome People?
- Authentic Relational Conversations: Reaching Across Difference to Build a Pro-Democracy Movement
- How to Win by Thinking like Your Opponent: Lessons from 350 Australia’s Campaign Against the Galilee Basin
2023 – Sept
- Climate Justice: What does it mean?
- How Collective Action Communication Frames are used to Drive Action on Climate Justice
- How Healthy Campaigns Respond in the Face of Bad News
- Activist Digital Security Practices
- Supporting Grassroots Justice-oriented Activists Around the World: A Year’s Worth of Learnings
- Un Fil Entre Nos Bulles Guide mégalodeste pour l’organisation d’Espaces transnationaux en ligne (Français) [A Guide for organizing transnational online meetings in French]
- Writing a Solidarity Statement: Considerations and Process Questions
- Movement Monitor: Methodology Overview
- Organising Civil Disobedience for Newcomers
2023 – Aug
- Grevillea: Creative Interventions in Western Australia during the 1990s
- The Effect of Protests and Media Reporting on Public Opinion Impacts: A Case Study
- Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
- Passing the Message Stick: Messages that Build Support for Change on First Nations Justice
- Quotes about Power and Social Change
- Nonviolence Training: A Brief History
- How to Recruit more People: Lessons from Rukiya in 350 Kenya
- Organizing against the Far Right
- How France Fought to Keep it in the Ground: Lessons from 350 Campaigns
- Pathways to Repair: Guides to Navigate Healing, Trust building and Human Messiness
- Belonging Design Principles: Guide for Building Belonging
- A Community Guide for Opposing Hate
- The Authoritarian Playbook: How Reporters can Contextualize and Cover Authoritarian Threats as Distinct from Politics-as-Usual
- Direct Action to Voter Registration: Case Study
- Golden Dawn: Lessons From Greece in Tackling Extremism
- Journey of Inclusion: Interactive Tool for Organisations
- Gamestorming: A Set of Innovative Co-creation Tools
- Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy
- How to Create a Successful Digital Campaign: Digital Activism Toolkit
- Climate Justice needs an Intersectional Approach: Toolkit
- Games for Nature: Environmental Education through the Eyes of Young People
- Climate Impacts: 350 Organising Lessons from Australia, US, Pacific Islands, and UK
- How to Influence a Political “Frenemy”: Lessons from 350 Canada’s Climate Welcome
- Movement Support Teams: Examples of Volunteers Supporting Each Other in the Movement
2023 – July
- How to Influence a Political “Frenemy”: Lessons from 350 Canada’s Climate Welcome
- Food activists and Street Kitchens: Cooking Revolutions in the Popular Pot
- Reporting In Contentious Times: Insights for Journalists to Avoid Fanning the Flames A Memo
- Building a Resiliency Network: A Toolkit for Building Community Resilience during a Contentious Election Cycle
- Social Identity and Group Norms
- Groundswell Gloucester: Fighting and Winning against Fracking
- Power and Agency: Lessons from Ten years of Climate Campaigning
- Community Organizing in France: A Collection of Resources from Organisez-Vous | Organisation collective en France : Recueil de ressources de l’association Organisez-Vous (French – Français)
- Writing a Letter to an MP
- Writing a Letter to the Editor
- Warm Cookies of the Revolution: Creative Approaches to Civic Health
- Lessons from the Transport for All Campaign
- Insights from Disability Campaigning from Rochelle Porteous
- Easy Read Guides for Social Change
- Decoding Injustice: Shedding new light on how economic policies harm people’s human rights
2023 – June
- Green Bans Timeline: 1971-1974
- Approaches to Organising: The Ganz Model
- Approaches to Organising: Decentralised, Directed Network and Strike Circles Models
- How Democratic States Can Effectively Support Pro-Democracy Movements
- The Role of External Support in Nonviolent Campaigns: Poisoned Chalice or Holy Grail?
- How to Win Well: Civil Resistance Breakthroughs and the Path to Democracy
- Added to Framing Issues for Social Justice Impact: Directory of Messaging Guides
- Transit Messaging Research Results and Recommendations for Mobilizing and Moving Communities
- Drug Stigma Message Guide
- From the Indictment to the Courts: Freedom Over Fascism Toolkit
- Lobbying Playbook: How to Guides, Stories and Examples
- Creating Bold Safe Actions Despite Repression: Lessons from Brazil
- Accessible Pub Crawls and Positive Change: An Interview with Des Ryan
- Making Advocacy Accessible Webinar
- Nonviolent Campaigning, Organising and Wellbeing Resources | Şiddetsiz Kampanya, Örgütlenme ve Esenlik Kaynakları (Turkish – Türkçe)
- New collection – Leaderful Organizing
- Why a Coaching Approach is Better than Command and Control
- Efficacy is Essential for Taking Action
- Disability Advocates and Campaigners in Australia: Frank Hall-Bentick
2023 – May
- Environmental Movements and Activism around the World: Book and Videos
- Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World – Book Review
- Organising Stories and Lessons from the 350 Organising Story Telling Lab
- All about Carly Findlay: Writer, Speaker, Disability and Appearance Activist
- Citizens’ Jury Case Study: NDIS Citizens’ Jury Scorecard Project
- What We can Learn from Star Wars’ Andor: The Role of Sacrifice in Revolutionary Organising
- Belonging: A Facilitator and Practice Guide
- What is Inclusive Research?
- How to do Inclusive Research?
- Talking about Race: Racial Equity Resources
- Overcome Toxic Polarisation: A Political Courage Challenge
- The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
- Every Worker in Australia: A Race Class Narrative
- All about El Gibbs: Disability Advocate
2023 – April
- People With Disability Australia PWDA Language Guide
- The History of Campaigns in Australia by People With Disability
- People With Disability Australian Protest Timeline
- Australian Radio Shows by and for People with Disability
- TED talks on Disability Rights, Perceptions, Accessibility and Inclusion
- High Trees Community Organising Self Assessment Toolkit
- What Star Wars’ Andor can teach us about revolutionary leadership development
- Disability Visibility: Stories and Podcasts
- All about Judith Heumann: Disability Rights Activist
- The First Peoples Disability Network: Yarning Disability Podcast
- Disability Advocacy Online Courses
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
- Moving at the Speed of Trust: Disability Justice and Transformative Justice
- New Podcast Episodes from the Craft of Campaigns Podcast including
S1 E8: Daniel Hunter on never using the same tactic twice, undoing a “done deal” in Philadelphia
S1 E9: Justin J. Pearson on campaigning to stop a pipeline headed for a Black neighborhood in Memphis
S1 E10: Katey Lauer on how to grieve when our campaigns get stuck & weathering transitions with grace
S1 E11: Heather Cronk on disrupting the movement ecosystem to jumpstart a campaign to win federal LGBTQ protections
S1 E12: Hannah Sassaman on making Comcast pay, ensuring your victories stick & planning the next campaign before your current one ends
S1 E13: Danielle Purifoy & AJ Williams on winning alternatives to policing in Durham NC
2023 – March
- Revolution Is For Us: Gay Liberation, Unions and the Left in the 1970s
- Trans Day of Visibility: Allyship and Actions
- Understanding and Responding to Repression: Lessons from Peace Brigades International
- Leave it in the Ground: Union Bans and Uranium Exports in the 1970s
- There’s No Place for Burnout in a Burning World
- We Need a Climate Movement that Addresses the Trauma of Fighting for a Burning Planet
- Auckland Transport Decarbonisation Campaign (2020 – 2022)
- How to Beat the ‘Fracking Frenzy: Lessons from the Campaign that ended Fracking in Ireland
- 12 Habits of Successful Changemakers
- Protest Movements: How Effective are they?
- The Anti-Trans Movement
- Easy Read resources about advocacy and campaigning
- Easy Read resources about particular campaigns and social issues
- Digital Campaigning and Online Organising Courses with Social Movement Technologies
- Digital Organising Tools to Reach and Recruit Supporters
- Measuring People Power in the Digital Age
- TikTok for Organizing: How Groups are Using TikTok in Campaigns
- Insights from Disability Campaigning from El Gibbs and Elly Desmarchelier
- Social Change & Board Games: What’s in a game?
- Commons Conversation Podcast with Sarah Schulman: Lessons from Campaigning for AIDs Activism
- Innovative Tech for Social Justice Causes: Resources from Democracy Labs
- The Social Change Grid: A Framework for Understanding Social Change
- Social Change Agency Podcast – New Podcast Episode – 029. We’re in this together – Reflecting on movement trends in 2023
2023 – February
- Build Stronger Communities with the Community Canvas
- Stick Together Podcast: Union news, Workers’ Stories and Social Justice Issues
- Learning in Movements: Bridging the Scholar-Activist Divide
- Accessibility: Introduction to thinking about Events and Engagement
- Online Tactics: Digital / Social Storms
- Creating Change with Letter Deliveries
- The Peace Preacher as Anti-War Organiser in Regional Australia
- Films and Documentaries about Social Movement Struggles, Victories and Leaders – New films added include Mabo and Devil’s Dust
2023 – January
- Commons Conversations Podcast: Insights into Activism
- What is the difference between Advocacy and Activism?
- Glossaries for Campaign Strategy, Community Organising and Solidarity and Justice
- Prefigurative Politics in Practice
- Radical Human Resources Policies, Guides and Templates
- Questioning for Learning, Co-creation and Liberation
- 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
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