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Build People Power and Capacity to run effective Campaigns and Movements to tackle the Climate Crisis

Tools, skills, and resources from 350.org to build capacity to run effective campaigns and movements to tackle the climate crisis.

young people lining the walls of a large walkway inside a building. They are holding signs that say What is your plan? There is one woman standing at the front holding an orange piece of paper that reads What is your plan?

Lessons learned from Campaigning to popularize and win the Green New Deal

This webinar covers Sunrise Movement’s campaign for a Green New Deal with special focus on the planning and analysis that informed action.

Blockaders sitting on the road with Aboriginal Australian flags and a large banner at the back that reads - Ngiyaningu Maran Yaliwunga Ngara-Li - Our ancestors are always watching.

What Will It Take for the Climate Movement to Win?

Nick Beuret discusses the strategies required to solve the climate crisis… he argues for a focus on movement building and direct action.

Three people at a table outside with white tablecloth that has word BlackRock on it. The people are eating fake money. A banner in the background says When the last tree is dead, the last fish is caught and the last river is poisoned, you will realise that you cannot eat money. The woman seated on the left wears a sign on her chest that reads BlackRock is the real enemy.

“You can’t eat money”: An interview with Extinction Rebellion activist Jo Flanagan

Interview with an Extinction Rebellion activist about a protest against BlackRock in 2019. She explains how the action was conceptualised, organised & run.

The Advocates: Women within the Australian Environmental Movement

This book features nine never-before-told stories of remarkable women and their courageous pursuits of climate justice in Australia.

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Making change: What works?

What key ingredients enable movements to realise significant change? Learn from four movements and this report’s insights and findings.

Civil Resistance against Climate Change: What, when, who and how effective?

New research considers what Australian climate activism – specifically climate change civil resistance – looks like, how it is changing, and what it is achieving.

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A Comparative Analysis of Australian Media Coverage of the 2019 Climate Protests

A report and analysis about Australian mainstream media coverage of climate protests and activists in 2019.

5 Podcasts All About COP26

5 podcasts for your listening pleasure – A wealth of podcasts have been created to inform and inspire us about what’s happening at COP26.

A Strategy for Climate Insurgency

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

Behind the scenes of Sunrise’s volunteer-led phone bank program

Want to know how to run a large scale volunteer led phonebank? Learn from the Sunrise Movement and how they managed their teams.

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ChangeMaker Chat with Jean Hinchcliffe: What does it take for a teenager to turn into a planet defender?

Jean Hinchliffe, climate campaigner and author, talks about her activist journey and the lessons she has learnt about making powerful change.

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 and organizing strategies for the larger climate struggles ahead. This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence. Keystone XL pipeline permit rescinded When President Biden rescinded a crucial permit for the Keystone XL pipeline last week (20 January 2021), it marked the culmination […]