Creative Activism: Start Here
…reading the following four articles by Iain McIntyre: Creative Activism: An Antidote to Despair Changing the world via shock and beauty: Visual Artworks Items of Mass Instruction: Posters, Stickers, Memes…
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Books to Read if you are Interested in Activism, Social Change and Justice
…direction for their union. Publisher’s website Ten year update from publisher Purchase from PM Press How to Make Trouble and Influence People Iain McIntyre, 1996. This book reveals Australia’s radical…
Campaigns that Changed South Australia
…and uranium mining, 1974-1988, Global Nonviolent Action Database Interview with Kevin Buzzacott by Iain McIntyre, 2013, How To Make Trouble and Influence People – Mr Buzzacott was an Arabunna man…
Points of Intervention
…Iain McIntyre in his book Environmental Blockades puts forward the Point of Transport as another valuable place to intervene. The Point of Transport can include warehouses, railways, ports and other…
The Radical History of Unemployed Activism
…ditch. Many thanks to Iain McIntyre, Melbourne’s own radical historian, for tips for this Melbourne Campaigners’ Network event. Check out How to Make Trouble and Influence People for more social…
Performing Political History: An interview with Gary Foley
An interview with Professor Gary Foley about using creative practice to bring attention to the political challenges facing Aboriginal people in Australia. This article was first published in 2017 in…
Draftmen Go Free: A History of the Anti-Conscription Movement in Australia
Introduction Australia has a long history of opposition to military conscription and one of key flashpoints occurred between 1964 and 1972. The reintroduction of compulsory military service in late 1964…
Women Fighting Back in the Depression Years
Introduction Conventional histories of the Great Depression have tended to downplay women’s role in resistance to austerity and poverty in Australia. In this excerpt from Rebel Women in Australian Working…
Noonkanbah 1979: When Unionists Stood up for Aboriginal Rights
Introduction The Noonkanbah dispute in Western Australia was an important chapter in both the struggle for Australian Aboriginal rights and union solidarity in the 1970s-80s. Read Article “It was important…
Blockades that changed Australia
Introduction Since the 1970s Australians have regularly employed blockades to occupy space, prevent entry to a site, and directly interfere with environmentally damaging and anti-social activities. Building on picketing tactics…
Sign Language: The story of the Jabiluka symbol
The artist’s story of how the Stop Jabiluka hand symbol was designed and grew to become a symbol for the anti-nuclear movement. In 1996 I was in Jabiru in the…
30 years of Creative Resistance by Friends of the Earth Australia
Introduction ’30 years of Creative Resistance’ is a compilation of writing and art celebrating the work of Friends of the Earth Australia over the last thirty years. With contributions from…
Scaling Up Movements For Greater Impact
Building movement size, strength and impact is of clear interest to campaigners. Recent work by academics in the field of peacebuilding and civil resistance provides new ways of looking at…
Thanks But No Tanks: Learnings from Disrupt Land Forces [Brisbane: 2021]
Introduction During seven days of creative, ingenious, staunch, peaceful, collaborative actions, over three hundred people spoke truth to the power of the war makers at Brisbane’s 2021 Land Forces weapons…
The Art(s) of Non-violent Activism
Marty Branagan explains the role of the arts in promoting causes. This paper is an extended version of one delivered by the author as part of a workshop given on…
Activism and the Power of Humour
Introduction This paper uses Australian case studies to demonstrate the continued evolution of the use of humour in environmental, peace, and social justice movements. Drawing from literature on the topic…
Defending Unionism: The Weipa Dispute, 1995
Introduction During the 1980s and 1990s a series of campaigns saw workers fight back against attacks on their wages and conditions, jobs, unions and rights in Australia. Occurring in the…
Brave Enough to say ‘No’: William White and the Fight against Military Conscription during the Vietnam War
Introduction Opposition to military conscription during the Vietnam War took many forms, ranging from conscientious objection and non-compliance through to draft resistance. Concerted campaigning from 1965 to 1972 saw resistance…
Deciding Whether To Do Electoral Organizing
This excerpt from Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize Power in Your Community includes a series of practical questions to help campaigns decide when and how to engage in…
How do we keep going? Activist burnout and personal sustainability in social movements
Introduction Burnout is the act of involuntarily leaving activism, or reducing one’s level of activism… When an activist burns out, she typically derails her career and damages her self-esteem and…