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Building Organising Leadership During Election Mobilisation
Max Smith, co-director of the Community Organising Fellowship, shares some thoughts about how we can practice community organising leadership even in the midst of fast-paced election mobilisation.
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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.
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Deciding Whether To Do Electoral Organizing
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 electoral organising.
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Elections and Activism: Case Studies
A collection of case studies of how activists have intervened in elections collated by The Commons Social Change Library.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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