Movements_Campaigns - Women's rights - The Commons Social Change Library

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Beyond the International Women’s Day Lunch: Resources for Women’s Activism & Cistem Change

Resources for women’s activism and cis-tem change for IWD and beyond. Are you ready to take your next step for gender justice and liberation?

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Changing The World: The Women’s Political Association

The story of Vida Goldstein & the Women’s Political Association through their own words via a series of excerpts from speeches & publications.

Women Fighting Back in the Depression Years

Read about the role that women played in unemployed movements during the Depression Years in Australia in this book excerpt by Janey Stone.

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How Powerful Conversations Won Abortion Rights in Ireland

Overturning the abortion ban in Ireland meant equipping people to share their stories and spark conversations with their friends and family.

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Did You March 4 Justice? Ideas for Your Next Steps

Ideas for next steps after the Women’s March 4 Justice – including action, skills development, videos, books and podcasts.

All About Movements: Why Building Movements Creates Deeper Change

Why do movements matter? Why do we march on the streets or come together online? Great resource on movements and movement building.

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Tips for Campaigning Women

Tips for setting up strong groups and effective campaigns, provided by Holly Hammond to the WELA program.

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All in For A Feminist Recovery

Hear from these powerhouse women on their vision for a feminist response to the crises the world faces. Video from Virtual Progress 2020.

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Films about Women & 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.

5 films about fighting for gender justice and fundamental human rights

Watch 5 short documentaries about courageous leaders who are standing up for gender justice and writing new futures for themselves and their communities.

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Rights for Moms [Bravo Za Mama]: Serbian campaign case study

An empowering case study of how hundreds of mums in Serbia lobbied their government MPs to fix a maternity leave payment problem.

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People’s History of Australia Podcast

People’s History of Australia-podcast and blog looking at Australian history from the perspective of ordinary people fighting together for a better life.

TED talk: Black women – Tipping the balance | Michelle Deshong | TEDxJCUCairns

Many Indigenous women posses the qualities that have made a huge impact on civil & Indigenous rights in Australia, these same qualities give Indigenous women a unique perspective that enables them to tip the balance & provide genuine political leadership.

TED talk: How to overcome apathy and find your power

Dolores Huerta, civil rights activist, reflects on her life’s work – offering inspiration for anybody trying to overcome apathy and find their own power.

TED talk: The urgency of intersectionality

Crenshaw uses the term “intersectionality” to describe the reality of race and gender bias & understand how the two can combine to create even more harm.

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ChangeMakers Podcast Series 1

The ChangeMakers podcast is short series podcast that tells stories about people who are striving for social change across the world.

Gender, development and the role of business with purpose

Sam Mostyn, President of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), at Progress 2017 talking quotas, Sustainable Development Goals, and the importance of including corporates in our work towards social justice.

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Stop Adani and the Suffragettes Reflections on targets and tactics

Joel Dignam analyses two campaign moments: Stop Adani’s targeting of the ALP in the 2018 Queensland state election and the UK women’s suffrage campaign targeting of Liberals in 1905. The lesson? Target those most likely to give you what you want, and sometimes that means creating political risk for them.

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Consciousness Raising

Consciousness raising was a key element of the second wave women’s movement enabling women to recognise that the personal is political. This article gives an overview of group consciousness raising processes relevant for any group based on a shared identity or experience of oppression.

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