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Transforming Coordination within Social Movements 

…Meanwhile conservative ranchers, urban progressives, environmentalists, and farmers along the route of the proposed pipeline formed a coalition called Bold Nebraska which began coordinating with pipeline opponents in Alberta. Bill

Coalition Building: Start Here

…the value of custom-fitting organising strategies to fit local contexts. Understanding roles and tensions in coalitions The Four Roles of Social Activism introduces Bill Moyer’s Four Roles of Social Activism:…

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Marriage Equality Campaign Timeline and Reflections

…Tasmanian Parliament unanimously passed legislation to recognise same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions as registered partnerships. 2012 – A Tasmania bill to legalise state level same-sex marriages was defeated in…

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Backfire Manual: Tactics Against Injustice

…Review of Public Affairs, July 2008. Tactics used in relation to Bill Henson’s photographs of a naked girl are assessed as to whether they are characteristic of those used by…

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Learn About Organising from Marshall Ganz

…Marshall Ganz joins Bill Moyers to discuss the power of social movements to effect meaningful social change. A social movement legend who dropped out of Harvard to become a volunteer…

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10 Great Resources on Activist Wellbeing

…individualised experience – but Bill Moyer’s Movement Action Plan, a framework for understanding social movements, factors in perception of failure, providing insights and hope for navigating the downs in movement…

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Mass organising calls and webinars

…opportunities for change due to the change in control of Congress from the Republicans to Democrats as well as the introduction of a new healthcare bill. Within a short deadline,…

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Why campaigns, not protests, get the goods

…to see how we can improve to step up our game. Campaigns are ongoing and therefore invite participants to play what strategist Bill Moyer called the four fundamental roles for…

Activism and the Power of Humour

…by Bullfrog Smith-lampooned the machismo of developers with ‘we wanna cut, we wanna kill, we wanna bulldoze that there hill, we don’t care who pays the bill, ’cause we’re playing…

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Family Friendly Organising

…like Bill Ryan – our favourite role model for aging disgracefully. But the middle is missing. There are comparatively few people from 25-50 involved in the movement. They may be…

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Activist Support and Debriefing

…unresolved and unsatisfactory relationships with other activists. Bill Moyer highlights that many people adhere to a belief that they are powerless and that what they are doing is failing. They…

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