Labor Power and Strategy: How to Read Womack
Introduction The 2023 book Labor Power and Strategy, edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perušek, is centred around a lengthy interview with labour organiser and historian John Womack Jr in…
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No War Opera House Graffiti Action: An Interview with Dave Burgess
Introduction In 2002 and 2003, tens of millions of people across the world took part in demonstrations against the United States’ launching of a second Gulf War against Iraq. On…
Lessons from the Campaign to Stop Independent Assessments Webinar
In October 2021 Australian Progress held a webinar called ‘Lessons from the Campaign to Stop Independent Assessments which brought together a panel of activists to share their insights. Introduction The…
Creative activism: Hologram protest
Introduction In this 2015 interview, which originally appeared in Interface: a journal for and about social movements, Lesley Wood talks with No Somos Delito spokesperson Cristina Flesher Fominaya about a…
A Strategy for Climate Insurgency
Introduction Jeremy Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labour and social movements and has written and/or produced more than twenty video documentaries. A long time…
When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue and Resistance
Introduction Conflict is when your people want something, and the other side isn’t giving it up. Conflict emerges at the moment your side needs to decide whether to struggle to…
Social Movements: Finding Your Place and Welcoming Others
Introduction Cynthia Kaufman is the director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action, where she also teaches community organizing and philosophy. Her most recent publication, The Sea Is Rising…
Transforming Coordination within Social MovementsÂ
Introduction In the book, Common Preservation: In a Time of Mutual Destruction (2020), historian, documentary maker, and activist Jeremy Brecher draws upon lessons from a variety of social and labour…
Listening to the artivists: Podcasts about activism and the arts
Introduction A series of podcasts from 3CR Community Radio’s Earthmatters program about activism and the arts. Click on each heading to listen. The Desert Pea and The Frontier Wars March…
Ducks For Detainees: Interview about artivism
An interview with Maggie Cowling from Ducks for Detainees, a group that holds art events to maintain awareness of the plight of offshore detainees. In the following interview Maggie Cowling…
Lock Out The Landlords: Australian Anti-Eviction Resistance 1929-1936
The economic depression of the 1930s saw thousands of Australians thrown out of their homes and into the streets. These actions did not go unopposed. Across Australia pickets, occupations and…
Australian Blockading Handbooks
Introduction Blockades, protest camps and convergences are means by which campaigns mobilise people to occupy space, prevent entry to a site, demonstrate opposition, and directly interfere with environmentally damaging and…
Green Bans Timeline: 1971-74
Introduction During the early 1970s the NSW Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) emerged as one of the most progressive unions in the world. Beyond its use of militant tactics to vastly…
Accessible Pub Crawls and Positive Change: An Interview with Des Ryan
Introduction Central Queenslander Des Ryan OAM has been involved in a range of advocacy activities for people with disability for decades. He has served in various roles within organisations such…
The History of Campaigns in Australia by People With Disability
Introduction As with other forms of social change, improvements in independence, inclusion, equality, access and services for people with disability have generally had to be fought for and won through…
People With Disability Australian Protest Timeline
Introduction People with disability in Australia and their allies have long undertaken advocacy and activism to gain improvements in independence, inclusion, access and services. Early movements in Australia secured changes…
Australian Radio Shows by and for People with Disability
Introduction Radio programs are a great way to hear and share views and news, as well as learn about history, politics and culture. If you’re interested in disability rights and…
Stick Together Podcast: Union News, Workers’ Stories and Social Justice Issues
Introduction Stick Together is Australia’s only national radio show dedicated to union and workplace justice issues. In addition to a weekly wrap of union news and updates on current campaigns,…
Against Fascism and War: Pig Iron Bob and the Dalfram Dispute, Port Kembla 1938
Introduction In solidarity with countries suffering under fascism and militarism, waterside workers and other unionists began placing industrial bans on war materials to overseas regimes including Japan, Germany and Spain…
Frontline Action on Coal FLAC: Ten Years on the Climate Frontline
Introduction Since 2012 Frontline Action on Coal (FLAC) have regularly opposed new fossil fuel projects in Australia through the use of blockades and other means of non-violent direct action. In…