Reporting In Contentious Times: Insights for Journalists to Avoid Fanning the Flames A Memo
This memo provides a brief overview of key considerations and pointers for responsible and conflict-sensitive election-related reporting.
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Building a Resiliency Network: A Toolkit for Building Community Resilience during a Contentious Election Cycle
This toolkit offers simple, step-by-step guidance and worksheets for leaders seeking to take decisive steps to create resilience to violence in their communities.
How to Win Well: Civil Resistance Breakthroughs and the Path to Democracy
Civil resistance-Moving from dictatorship to democracy. Negotiations & elections are the breakthroughs that lead to more democratic outcomes.
2022 Australian Federal Election Analysis
Trying to make sense of the 2022 Australian federal election and the resulting political landscape? This collection of articles will give you valuable insights.
Building Organising Leadership During Election Mobilisation
Max Smith, co-director of the Community Organising Fellowship, reviews the Tools for Radical Democracy guide to electoral organising, and draws out some key considerations for deciding whether or how to engage in elections.
Understanding Politics, Government, Elections and Activism Through Books for Australian Children
A list of inspring books for children collated by the Little Bookroom on the topics of government, politics, elections, the law and activism.
Engaging in Elections and Building Community Power
Max Smith, co-director of the Community Organising Fellowship, reviews the Tools for Radical Democracy guide to electoral organising, and draws out some key considerations for deciding whether or how to engage in elections.
Deciding Whether To Do Electoral Organizing
Key questions to ask in considering whether to undertake electoral organizing, such as will it help us achieve our campaign goals?
Elections and Activism: Case Studies
A collection of case studies of how activists have intervened in elections collated by The Commons Social Change Library.
Elections and Activism: Campaign Skills
This collection provides how-to guides and resources regarding the skills and tactics you’ll need to reach your goals in election time.
Elections and Activism: Concepts and Tensions
Explore the concepts and tensions that surround elections and activism with some interesting reading collated by the Commons Library.
Should fighting for democracy take priority over building powerful social movements?
Activists throughout history have put social movement work on hold for the electoral arena. Determining whether to do so is a matter of strategy and calling.
Should we disrupt the Democratic Party or try to take it over?
How movements settle the debate on whether to engage with political parties from the inside or outside will have a profound impact on their effectiveness.
Local Power: Shifting Power at the Local Level – Candidate School
Case study of organising at a local level, Victorian Trades Hall Council’s Candidate School, focused on changing who gets elected to local office.
Tech Tricks and Trends for Your Pandemic Election Campaign
Sorcha Rochford on how NationBuilder supported customers in running an election campaign and a nonprofit in the midst of the pandemic, with practical takeaways you can apply in the lead up to our next federal election.
Changemaker Chat with Mike Gecan: Organising in the US
Mike Gecan explains the differences between organising and mobilising and discusses the prospective US 2020 election.
Humorous Political Stunts: Nonviolent Public Challenges to Power
An exploration of how creative activists combine humour with seriousness via stunts to create change, including case study – John Howard Ladies’ Auxiliary Fan Club.
Changemaker Chat with Adam Barbanel-Fried: Deep Canvassing during the US 2020 Election
Interview with Craig Reucassel: How a career as a comedian and political satirist prepared him to talk about climate change with a diverse audience.
Getting Elected: The first national convention for community-minded independents
Access videos and presentations from the first Australian convention for independent, community-minded candidates.
Community Organising and Digital Campaigning Webinar Series
A webinar series from Australian Progress exploring insights from Australia and around the world on how to best organise and lead digital campaigns. Includes election case studies from the US, Northern Territory (Australia) and Aotearoa New Zealand.