Books, Journals and Excerpts

Illustration titled 'Ladder of Engagement'. There are four levels in a triangular shape with people doing different actions. The bottom level is a person texting with someone

Building Leadership Capacity: The Ladder of Engagement

Learn how organisers recruit and build the leadership capacity of others with the Ladder of Engagement.

A sign board on a street in Atlanta with people riding past on bicycles. On the board is a black and white photo of a woman called Ella Baker. On the board it reads '"Legendary leader Ella Baker moved to Atlanta in 1957 to help form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Bayard Rastin and Dr. Martin Luther King

Building Movement Capacity and Structure: Ella Baker and the Civil Rights Movement

Take inspiration from this Civil Rights Movement story about how to build movement capacity and structure.

Book cover reading United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia with an image of unionists marching.|Photo of union activist Louisa Dunkley|Three women working as domestic workers pose with a dog outside a mansion in the 1890s

Rebels In The Workforce: Women Worker’s Resistance in the Nineteenth Century

Read a book excerpt from United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia which discusses women’s resistance to workplace exploitation.

An Arrow pointing up features a person by themselves and as the arrow moves up the person gathers more and more people and at the end there is a group of people holding barbells up in the air representing there is strength and power in numbers.

Replace Endless Actions with Campaigns

Keep doing the same actions and not getting anywhere? Learn about replacing endless actions with campaigns and have a bigger impact.

A diagram of the 'The Upside-down triangle'. An upside down triangle is held up by 3 logs on each side coming out of the ground. With out the logs holding it up it would fall.

Pillars Of Support – The Upside Down Triangle

Learn about movements, power and the Pillars of Support also known as the Upside-Down Triangle from Daniel Hunter.

How to Win Campaigns: Communications for Change

How to Win Campaigns is a practical guide for creating & running successful campaigns. Written for the new campaigner and the experienced.

Book cover - Title reads 'What Makes People Tick: The Three Hidden Worlds of Settlers

What Makes People Tick: The Three Hidden Worlds of Settlers, Prospectors and Pioneers

A book by Chris Rose (author of How to Win Campaigns) in which he puts forward a model of how to use psychology when creating compelling campaign messages.

Cover of the Cosmo-local handbook which reads "Cosmo-local work: Organisational practices for equitable and sustainable living."|A diagram of the L’atelier paysan model of Commoning which shows farmers feeding into and joining in a coop and operations group which then produces a workshop and platform.

Cosmo-local Work: Using Commons Based Practices for Equitable and Sustainable Living

Excerpts from the Cocmo-local work handbook discuss key concepts regarding a form of Commoning and includes a case study about a project.

1/6: The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol Succeeded?

1/6 The Graphic Novel is a comic about the US Capitol attacks in 2021. It asks what if the insurrection had been successful?

Book cover - Text reads 'The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change'. Black and white image of a group of protestors. One is speaking into a megaphone.

The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change (Book)

The core message of The Neutrality Trap is that avoiding conflict on today’s critical social issues is counterproductive, as meaningful progress toward social justice actually requires engagement, disruption, and constructive confrontation.

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