Learn all about tactics for your campaigns including how to adapt their tone for different events and explore different examples. This resource is available in many languages.
Topic: Nonviolent Direct Action
Nonviolent Direct Action
Strategic nonviolence is a rich tradition within social change movements, generating theoretical exploration, research, different group formations and tactical innovation. In this topic you’ll find case studies, manuals, inspiring quotes, training materials, and practical how-to-guides.
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.
Defiance Creates Hope Zine: Grassroots Action for a Free Palestine
A short zine celebrating grassroots action for a free Palestine, in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia between October 2023 and January 2024.
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Prophetic Witness Against the War Machine [The Peace Pilgrims and Pine Gap]
The story of the Peace Pilgrims nonviolent protest and arrest in 2016 at Pine Gap, an American military base in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Climate Activists in Australia are Learning How to Protect their Protest Rights
Australian climate activists have successfully navigated years of increasing protest criminalization, revealing strategies for all to follow.
3 Key Insights for Building a Powerful and Loving Movement against Oppression in Palestine-Israel
Rae Abileah and Nadine Bloch from Beautiful Trouble shared these key insights during Israel’s bombing of Gaza in October 2023.
From the Berlin Wall to Today — Lessons for Harnessing the Moment of the Whirlwind
What mainstream commentators get wrong about the historic uprisings of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and what civil resistance gets right.
Australian Blockading Handbooks
A collection of Australian Blockading Handbooks from the 1980s to the present including the Daintree, Franklin River, Jabiluka, etc.
Organising Civil Disobedience for Newcomers
350.org shares valuable lessons on organizing civil disobedience for newcomers, emphasizing trust-building, narrative development, preparation for repression, affinity groups, and post-action debriefing.
Grevillea: Creative Interventions in Western Australia during the 1990s
An interview with a member of the Western Australia-based Grevillea about how the group applied a dynamic and creative perspective to approaching issues such as militarism, pollution and international solidarity during the 1980s and 1990s.
Campaign Tactics
Learn all about tactics for your campaigns including how to adapt their tone for different events and explore different examples. This resource is available in many languages.
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.
Defiance Creates Hope Zine: Grassroots Action for a Free Palestine
A short zine celebrating grassroots action for a free Palestine, in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia between October 2023 and January 2024.
Prophetic Witness Against the War Machine [The Peace Pilgrims and Pine Gap]
The story of the Peace Pilgrims nonviolent protest and arrest in 2016 at Pine Gap, an American military base in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Climate Activists in Australia are Learning How to Protect their Protest Rights
Australian climate activists have successfully navigated years of increasing protest criminalization, revealing strategies for all to follow.
3 Key Insights for Building a Powerful and Loving Movement against Oppression in Palestine-Israel
Rae Abileah and Nadine Bloch from Beautiful Trouble shared these key insights during Israel’s bombing of Gaza in October 2023.
From the Berlin Wall to Today — Lessons for Harnessing the Moment of the Whirlwind
What mainstream commentators get wrong about the historic uprisings of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and what civil resistance gets right.
Australian Blockading Handbooks
A collection of Australian Blockading Handbooks from the 1980s to the present including the Daintree, Franklin River, Jabiluka, etc.
Organising Civil Disobedience for Newcomers
350.org shares valuable lessons on organizing civil disobedience for newcomers, emphasizing trust-building, narrative development, preparation for repression, affinity groups, and post-action debriefing.
Grevillea: Creative Interventions in Western Australia during the 1990s
An interview with a member of the Western Australia-based Grevillea about how the group applied a dynamic and creative perspective to approaching issues such as militarism, pollution and international solidarity during the 1980s and 1990s.