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…is 43: 46 mins. Listen to other episodes – Commons Conversations Podcast: Insights into Activism. Listen to Interview https://commonslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/202301130900_acting-up_64.mp3 Interview Transcript Iain McIntyre (IM) Welcome to Commons Conversations a…
…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…
…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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’ is a compilation of writing and art celebrating the work of Friends of the Earth Australia over the last thirty years. With contributions from leading…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Introduction In this paper, Marty Branagan provides a brief historical overview of the Australian movement against uranium mining, before focussing on two major campaigns: Roxby and Jabiluka. It describes the…
How an activist group from Western Australia called Grevillea used the power of creative activism and innovative approaches to challenge militarism and exploitation, as well as shake up stale approaches…