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Cesar Chavez on march from Mexican border to Sacramento with United Farm Workers. One man is carrying a flag. Title reads 'Chicano! The Struggle in the Fields".

Chicano! The Struggle in the Fields: Documentary about the Farm Workers Movement

Watch this documentary about César Chávez and his efforts to organise farm workers in the central valley of California, United States.

When Flight Attendants fought the Airline Industry and Won

Watch this Vox video on the “stewardess rebellion,” where flight attendants fought and overturned discriminatory, sexualised airline practices, transforming their profession and advancing women’s workplace rights.

Learn from Joanna Macy

Learn from the work of Joanna Macy about how to transform despair and apathy into collaborative action with this list of curated resources.

First Nations and Multicultural Voices from the Climate Movement

Explore recommendations and stories from First Nations and CALD communities in the climate justice movement in Australia.

An edited photograph of a woman known as Vida Goldstein. She is wearing a hat

Who was Vida Goldstein?

Who was Vida Goldstein? Learn more about Vida Goldstein, a leading suffragist, feminist and social changemaker in Australia in the 1900s.

Women For Survival: Pine Gap Protest 1983

Video about protest in 1983 against global violence took place outside the US military base at Pine Gap in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Cut out of black and white photo of Jane McAlevey who is holding a microphone and turning to the right. Text reads 'Learn from Jane McAlevey'.||||Book cover for 'No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

Jane McAlevey: Organizer Extraordinaire

A guide to Jane McAlevey’s work including key takeaways and a plethora of links to books, articles, videos, podcasts, workshops and more.

A sign board on a street in Atlanta with people riding past on bicycles. On the board is a black and white photo of a woman called Ella Baker. On the board it reads '"Legendary leader Ella Baker moved to Atlanta in 1957 to help form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Bayard Rastin and Dr. Martin Luther King

Building Movement Capacity and Structure: Ella Baker and the Civil Rights Movement

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.

|A diagram shaped liked a flower. In the middle the title is 'six characteristics of nannagogy philosophy'. Each petal has a different word and colour which are 1.Disorganized

Cheeky and Disorganized: Nannagogy and the Knitting Nannas

Learn about the 6 characteristics of the Knitting Nannas, groups of cheeky, disorganised, supportive older women activists against fracking.

Book cover reading United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia with an image of unionists marching.|Photo of union activist Louisa Dunkley|Three women working as domestic workers pose with a dog outside a mansion in the 1890s

Rebels In The Workforce: Women Worker’s Resistance in the Nineteenth Century

Read a book excerpt from United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia which discusses women’s resistance to workplace exploitation.

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