TagCampaigning – Grassroots

  • Black and white photograph of four protestors standing in front of Old Parliament House. Placards read 'Land Ownership Not Lease'

    The Aboriginal Tent Embassy

    The story of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, an important historical example of social change by Indigenous people.

  • Photograph of River Red Gum trees submerged in water.

    Victorian Red Gum Forests: A Historic Victory

    Insights on how a grassroots campaign successfully secured the protection of Victoria’s iconic red gum forests as national parks.

  • Photograph of protestors at the Jabiluka blockade in 1998. Features banners with 'Uranium

    Jabiluka Fight for Country

    Jabiluka: Fight for Country – How the Mirarr stopped a uranium mine on their land. Read about the Jabiluka mine campaign.

  • Stop Jabiluka

    Stop Jabiluka Mine Handbook

    Stop Jabiluka Mine handbook gives a fascinating insight into an important part of Australian social movement history as well as an overview of the kinds of issues to consider when organising a large scale direct action convergence. Over 500 people were arrested in the course of an eight-month blockade at Jabiluka in 1998.

  • Orange megaphone on orange wall

    The Basics of Crowdfunding and how to use Pozible

    Rick Chen, cofounder of Pozible, came along to a Melbourne Campaigner’s Network session to introduce the basics of crowd-funding and how to use the Pozible platform. Read on for some tips on how to get your crowd-funder up and running!

  • Woodcut print showing people standing together with a placard reading 'Unemployed Workers Movement of Carlton'.

    Walking Tours of Unemployed Resistance in Brunswick, 1929-35

    These walking tours visit the sites of some of Melbourne’s fiercest unemployed battles in the northern suburb of Brunswick, including pickets, occupations and protests.

  • Black and white photo of a crowd of people including several children.|Photograph of a billboard advertising Winfield cigarettes. The billboard advertising reads 'Anyhow... Winfield 25s'. Graffiti has been inserted so it reads 'Anyhow buga up a Winfield 25'.

    Lock Out The Landlords: Australian Anti-Eviction Resistance 1929-1936

    This pamphlet chronicles anti-eviction struggles highlighting community strategies to resist homelessness during the 1930s Depression.

  • Stencil reads 'Better to Squat than Let Houses Rot'

    Victoria Street Squats: Anti development struggles in Sydney in the 1970s

    Iain McIntyre talks with Ian Milliss about his involvement with Sydney’s Victoria St squats. During the early 1970s this street in Kings Cross became the focus of a long running anti-development struggle that brought together long term residents, unionists and squatters in a campaign which reignited squatting across the city.

  • Cover of Original Power's Building Power Guide - features a drawing of a turtle in red.

    Campaigning to Solve Our Issues

    This is an introduction to campaigning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Campaigning involves activating, mobilising, and organising people to make change and influence others to make change. This is an excerpt from Building Power: A Guide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Who Want to Change the World.

  • A jubilant group of people pose behind a large banner reading 'We won'. They are at the beach with sky and ocean in the background.

    James Price Point/Walmadan Case Study: A Huge Win

    Case study of the keys to success and strengths of the James Price Point / Walmadan campaign in the Kimberley, Western Australia.

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