Lessons learned_Reviews_Reflections

A square graphic titled '5 Lessons from Abortion Law Reform'. The lessons are listed: 1 Combine powers and know where you add value; 2 Know what the fight is actually about; 3 Do a messaging strategy early and make sure ppl will use it; 4 Share your homework; 5 Evaluate your campaign. In the bottom right hand corner there is a photo of Renee Carr smiling.

Five Lessons from Fair Agenda’s Campaigns for Access to Abortion Care in Australia

Lessons learned from Fair Agenda’s campaigns on winning safe and legal access to abortion care in Australia.

Transforming Coordination within Social Movements

Lessons from social and labour movements that discuss how movements bringing people together for common preservation arise and can be built.

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Thanks But No Tanks: Learnings from Disrupt Land Forces [Brisbane: 2021]

Actions and learnings from Australia’s Disrupt Land Forces Campaign at the Brisbane’s 2021 Land Forces weapons expo.

Protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline and Keystone XL Pipeline hold a sit-in in the street next to the San Francisco Federal Building. The sign at the front says 'People over pipelines'.

How defeating Keystone XL built a bolder, savvier climate movement

From frontline battles to large national mobilizations, tar sands resistance developed new tactics & organizing strategies for the larger climate struggles ahead.

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.

Ending the Activist Year Well

After a big year of effort it’s important to take time for reflection, evaluation, team-building, celebration, and planning. These resources will help.

ChangeMakers Organising School – Season Three

ChangeMakers Organising School – Training (videos and slides) to connect and deepen knowledge to organise for social change.

Reset Recommended Reading – October 2020

How do we keep fighting for a better future? Part of it is reflecting, inquiring and generating new ideas. Here are a list of resources to get you thinking.

How to Run Virtual Conferences and Retreats

Need to know how to run virtual conferences or retreats? Australian Progress share lessons learned from their experiences with you.

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Films about Women and Social Justice and Change

An inspiring list of feature films and documentaries about women and social change including Women of Steel, Suffragette, Mission Blue, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry and more.

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Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Workshop Facilitation Guide

Has your community experienced a disaster? Do you need to have difficult conversations and build individual and community resilience? This guide has all you need to hold a workshop.

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What can be done? A Rumination

A personal reflection by Rowan Cahill on a life of activism that started when he was conscripted to the Vietnam War as a 20 year old.

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Developing Sustainable Online Fundraising

Tips on effective online fundraising, based on Raisely’s 2019 fundraising data and case studies from GetUp and ActionAid.

Uncommon victories: Lessons from Warringah and Indi

In the 2019 Australian federal election, two local campaigns stood out. Two Independents, from two very different electorates, made history. We’re referring of course, to Indi in regional Victoria, and Warringah in Sydney.

How to start a direct action group to make Martin Luther King proud

George Lakey shares a ‘recipe’ on what it takes to create a thriving direct action group – wisdom built up over many years from trial and error.

What the US can learn from Scandinavia in the struggle against inequality

In this interview, George Lakey explains what lessons can be learned from how movements in Scandinavia won and secured their egalitarian economic model.

How to un-do a ‘done deal’ with Strategy and Soul

Campaign insights from Daniel Hunter’s book Strategy and Soul about how to fight a battle people think is a ‘done deal’.

4 lessons for climate organizers from the anti-nuclear movement

The anti-nuclear movement succeeded because local and national organizers understood how individual campaigns generate momentum for the movement.

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3 tools for advocacy evaluation

Links to useful resources in the area of advocacy, policy change, and social movement evaluation.

Book cover - Title reads '30 years of creative resistance'. Text at the bottom of the cover reads 'Friends of the Earth Australia'. Silhouettes of people holding hands walking in a line across a desert landscape.

30 years of Creative Resistance by Friends of the Earth Australia

’30 years of Creative Resistance’ is a compilation of writing and art celebrating the work of Friends of the Earth Australia over the last thirty years.

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