Communications & Media Archives

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The Activist Handbook: Campaigning Guides for Activists

The Activist Handbook is a ‘wikipedia’ style website that provides guides and resources for people to become effective activists.

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Guidelines: Images Portraying People with Disability

A short guide from People with Disability Australia PWDA with useful tips on how to portray images of people with disability.

Protected: Reporting In Contentious Times: Insights for Journalists to Avoid Fanning the Flames A Memo

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Protected: Building a Resiliency Network: A Toolkit for Building Community Resilience during a Contentious Election Cycle

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Every Worker in Australia: A Race Class Narrative

Introduction This guide offers a blueprint for building and sustaining the collective power needed for workplace and electoral wins. However, just like an architectural blueprint, lines on a page on their own do nothing. It is up to organizers, activists and elected leaders to take the guidance herein and apply it when and however you […]

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People With Disability Australia PWDA Language Guide

This guide has been written by people with disability to assist the general public & the media in talking about and reporting on disability.

Storytelling for Deep Impact Course

A course to understand the basics of storytelling to change hearts and minds and specifically to win over the ‘moveable middle’.

TED talk: The Secret Structure of Great Talks by Nancy Duarte

In this talk, presentation expert Nancy Duarte shares practical lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action.

How to Report on Conferences and Other Events

Online presentation on skills related to documenting social change & social justice events so that learnings can be shared beyond the event.

Cover of Robert Cialdini's book Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade.

Activism and Pre-Suasion

Lessons for activists on how to be more persuasive and effective, drawing on the book Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini.

Tips for Designing Infographics

A brief webinar by Commons Librarian volunteer sharing tips for designing infographics for social media and training purposes.

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Campaign Communications Course

A course for grassroot groups to understand the basics of public communications for building a convincing, winning campaign.

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Tips for Conducting Interviews about Sensitive Topics

Tips from Community Radio 3CR in Australia focussing specifically on interviews regarding sensitive topics.

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How to Conduct Interviews: Tips and Checklist

Tips and checklist on how to prepare, conduct, produce entertaining and informative interviews from Nicky Stott, Community Radio 3CR trainer.

A mural outside the Bernard Shaw Pub in Portobello, Dublin depicting Savita Halappanavar and calling for a Yes vote in Ireland’s referendum on repealing the Eighth Amendment. The mural shows Savita's face surrounded by lots of stickers saying Vote Yes

How to build public support with personal stories

A case study of an organisation’s experience with the power of personal stories in helping to build public support for a campaign.

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How to Change the Narrative / Story

Guides, manuals and tools to help you get the narrative and framing right no matter what social justice issue you are working on.

A crowd of protestors at marriage equality rally. There are colourful rainbow flags, banners and in the foreground three people are holding signs that say Vote Yes with a green tick.

What we can learn from the Marriage Equality Campaign

An array of resources collated about the marriage equality campaign across the world including lessons learned about messaging and framing.

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Conducting Interviews for Articles, Research & More

This article provides tips on how to run effective interviews for articles, research projects and podcasts.

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Projecting Power: Visual Strategy for Movements

Webinars on visual strategy will help you make a plan to create the images we need to win. You’ll be ready to tell a bolder story in the street, maximizing threat to power and making actions more welcoming and joyful.

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The Race Class Narrative: A race forward messaging framework to engage the base and persuade the middle

Watch a video on Race Class Narrative – an approach that weaves together economic empowerment, racial justice, and gender equity.

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