Take inspiration from this Civil Rights Movement story about how to build movement capacity and structure. Learn about Ella Baker and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC.
Learn how to map a movement to help understand the landscape, the other players, what’s missing, what’s most needed, and where things like power imbalances and conflicts are causing problems.
Explore a collection of resources on movements, organising and transformational politics in the digital age by Tectonica.
Many community organisations are facing criticism over Israel and Palestine. Governance expert Kate Larsen provides guidance.
Some important lessons on dealing with loss from a recent generation-defining struggle in New Zealand: the Save Happy Valley Campaign.
You’re not failing social change can be slow. Here are resources to explore around time, slow change and the concept of failure.
How do we encourage activists to celebrate wins, and come back from losses using rest and reflection? Insights and learnings from Global Grassroots Support Network GGSN.
Australian climate activists have successfully navigated years of increasing protest criminalization, revealing strategies for all to follow.
A Commons Conversations Podcast featuring an interview with Radhika Jhaveri, an environmental justice activist in India.
3 essential elements activists today can learn from the women’s suffrage movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Listen to two podcasts from the Commons Conversations about campaigns, coalition building and citizen science to end logging in Australia.
Listen to an inspiring podcast about women & leadership in the Australian environment movement with Judy Lambert & Victoria McKenzie-McHarg.
This 350.org presentation shares reflections and lessons learned from organising and mobilising in China remotely from Taiwan.
Rae Abileah and Nadine Bloch from Beautiful Trouble shared these key insights during Israel’s bombing of Gaza in October 2023.
Learn from research and Joe Solomon’s personal experience with his brother’s transformation on how to bring people into your movement.
This story illustrates 350.org Australia’s strategic decision-making process as they took on the largest coal export facility project in the world.
Examples – from 350.org and beyond – about ways people handled campaign losses in healthy, soul-giving, and strategic ways.
Grassroots activism often lacks funding & support but the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN) has brought together organizers to tackle common challenges and share resources.
350.org shares valuable lessons on organizing civil disobedience for newcomers, emphasizing trust-building, narrative development, preparation for repression, affinity groups, and post-action debriefing.
Rukiya, a 350.org organiser in Kenya, shares stories of how they recruited people for the African DeCOALinise Campaign.