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This is an Uprising: How nonviolent revolt is shaping the twenty first century: Book review
Joel Dignam reviews Paul and Mark Engler’s 2016 book This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. TIAU is an analysis of social change, how it has occurred, and how contemporary campaigners may make it occur again.
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How Organizations Develop Activists: Book Review
Joel Dignam reviews Hahrie Han’s How Organizations Develop Activists. A key finding of Han’s research is that high-engagement organizations practise both organizing and mobilizing. The Voice for Indi campaign is considered as an Australian example of combining these two approaches.
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Tips for Turnout from Your Rights at Work
The Your Rights at Work campaign ran from 2005 to 2007 and included some of the largest mobilisations in Australian social movement history. This article draws out some of the lessons in relation to ensuring strong turn-out at rallies and other events.
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Campaign Accelerator Toolkit
Accelerate the campaign planning process with this toolkit to get campaigns out the door faster to create more effective campaigns.
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10 Ways People Power Can Change the World
Change the world with boycotts, workplace action and memes, political campaigns, disaster relief, civil disobedience and more.
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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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Building 21st Century Movements
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Founder and former Executive Director of SumofUs, at Progress 2015 with a series of movement case studies challenging us to be technological innovators and to bring our social change work to the cutting edge of the current century.
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No Shortcuts Organising for Power in the Gilded Age: Book Review
Joel Dignam reviews Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts: Organising for Power in the Gilded Age. McAlevey outlines a critique of most contemporary union campaigning, using case studies and other analysis to argue for a deeper more rigorous approach to organising.
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Strategy & Soul Insights
Reflecting on her 2014 encounter with Daniel Hunter at a Sydney Campaigners’ Network gathering, Anita Tang—Manager of the Policy & Advocacy Team at Cancer Council NSW—offers insights from his teachings that can strengthen campaigns on both strategic and human levels.
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