• Guide cover - Title reads 'Legal Handbook for the Victorian Coal and Gas Movement'.

    Legal Handbook for the Victorian Coal and Gas Movement

    The purpose of this handbook is to help you understand your rights and what risks you might be taking, including when you could be arrested and what you could be charged with, if you choose to participate in protests and other actions.

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    Nonviolence

    As a means of radical social change, nonviolence draws on a rich history of peopleโ€™s struggles from around the world. Grassroots peopleโ€™s movements have brought down dictators, stopped armies, undermined corporations and halted entire industries with nonviolent resistance.

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    3 Strategies For Peace

    Learn about the three major approaches to peace identified by Johan Gultung: peacekeeping, peacemaking, peacebuilding.

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    What Makes Non Violent Direct Action (NVDA) Effective?

    Nonviolent direct action can play a powerful role in campaigns. This article summarises some of the characteristics that can make NVDA either effective or ineffective, and encourages the use of clear tactics criteria in developing campaign strategy.

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    Building 21st Century Movements

    Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Founder and former Executive Director of SumofUs, at Progress 2015 with a series of movement case studies challenging us to be technological innovators and to bring our social change work to the cutting edge of the current century.

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