 | A permaculture model for sustainable land use and appropriate technologies in central Brazil (64k PDF) - Andre Soares (Cerrado, Brazil) reflects on the first few years of the permaculture institute he and his partner founded in central Brazil. |
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| Anti-freeway campaign: long-term movement building (256k PDF) - James Whelan. (Brisbane, Australia) Permission granted for interim distribution. |
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| Anti-whaling campaign in Australia (164k PDF) - Bec Grey's anti-whaling case study includes interviews with protagonists from the 1970s when this campaign dominated Australian environmental discourse. |
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| Aquarius Rising: Terania Creek and the Australian forest protest movement - Vanessa Bible's thesis on how the Terania Native Forest Action Group formed in 1974 and challenged the NSW Forestry Commission’s plans for Terania Creek in any conceivable way they could. What unfolded was a natural and spontaneous response – a direct action blockade of the rainforest that the protesters had sought so fiercely to protect. |
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| Australian Student Environment Network: The future of student organising? - A critical appraisal of student organising in the context of voluntary student unionism. Colin Sweett invites readers to comment and engage with him in this analysis. (112kb PDF) |
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| Byron Farmers Market (964k PDF) - Vanessa John. Insights into the challenges of working as a change agent and advocating for systemic reform. |
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| Campaign to control landclearing in Queensland (116k PDF) - James Whelan & Kristen Lyons examine a hugely successful campaign run collaboratively by several environmental NGOs. |
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| Changing the System (964k PDF) - Irene Opper. What Works Insights from interviews with advocates for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Queensland. |
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| Creating an ecological, worker run co-operative (160k PDF) - John Hepburn. A personal history of Reverse Garbage in Brisbane that diverts materials away from landfill, making them available at low cost to the comunity |
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| Defend Freedom: national security and human rights (80k PDF) - Justin Whelan's succinct analysis of Australian campaigns to protect human rights in the 'war on terror'. Draws on Moyer's Movement Action Plan. |
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| For the Common Good (136k PDF) - Mary Tinney. A Case Study of the Murray-Darling Water and Salinity Campaign of the Social Action Office |
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| Free at Last: The Struggle for Independence in East Timor (144k PDF) - In May 2002, Xanana Gusmao was sworn in as President and East Timor became world’s newest nation. Jason MacLeod's case study explores the resistance movement and its strategy. |
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| Friends of Earth Climate Justice Campaign: for the greater good (712k PDF) - Nancy Entwhistle. A study of the reframing of the climate change campaign and the notion of distributive justice. |
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| Gully Insights (724 PDF) - Sam La Rocca. Lessons for Local Planning and NIMBY Campaigning Case study of a two-year community-based campaign to protect green space from development. |
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| I Vote and I Protect the Grey Nurse Shark Campaign (512k PDF) - Estelle Gaillard. Led by the Australan Marine Conservation Society to protect the grey nurse shark |
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| Interpares: a case study in democratic management (256k PDF) - Jean Christie's reflections on the establishment and operation of the Interpares ('among equals') collective. |
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| Lessons in process: the TAWA story (pdf 604k) - Christine Herzog and Deborah Radford attempt to understand why a women’s group using alternative processes was not able to survive differences that arose within the group, and to share the learning. |
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| Listening: Community development, dignity and respect (96k pdf) - Julie Foreman (2010) reflects on her community development work in Minto. This case study examines the dilemmas and challenges of working with communities undergoing crises, in this case the demolition of the homes of public housing tenants. |
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| Not in our name: An evaluation of the Australian anti-war movement 2002-2003 (680k PDF) - Justin Whelan's (2007) evaluation of the campaign against Australia's involvement in the Iraq war examines the efforts of anti-war coalitions and the broader movement. Justin draws on social movement theories including Bill Moyer's Movement Action Plan, and the growing body of material for advocacy evaluation. |
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| Om Gaia Dudes: The North East Forest Alliances’s Old Growth Forest Campaign (236k PDF) - Aidan Ricketts' (2003) analysis of NEFA's forest campaign, based on activist interviews. Published in Wilson H (ed) Belonging In the Rainbow Region, SCU Press, Lismore. |
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| Organisational Learning and the NGO (384k PDF) - Steph Walton. A critical reflection on mass convergence as a protest tool employed for refugee advocacy. |
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| PNG Forests (244k PDF) - Cassie McMahon. Case study of Greenpeace campaign to stop illegal logging. |
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 | Power Shifting Towards Tomorrow - Anna Rose reflects how, in 2005, students from the University of Sydney began a campaign to make their university's Administration clean up their act on climate change. The campaign, called Green Campus Now, called on the Vice Chancellor to commit to purchasing at least 20% of its power from renewable energy, and to funding on-campus renewable energy research & development. |
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| Protecting Pooh Corner (24k PDF) - Nikki Parker and Simon Birrell describe the Friends of Pooh Corner campaign to stop private developers taking over ownership of an area valued by the local community. The short and successful campaign led to the area being managed as a bushland reserve for nature conservation. |
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| Protecting Queensland's Wild Rivers (164k PDF) - Shantala McMaster. A community-led campaign that secured legislative change. |
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| Queensland's Wild Rivers (384k PDF) - Shaowing Wang. An alternative interpretation of the Wildnerness Society's successful campaign. |
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| Rules of the Road (372k PDF) - Ian Kebbe. Analysis of a campaign to stop a road construction project through the Baru Volcano National Park in Panamá. |
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| Student environmentalism: shifting winds (320k PDF) - Holly Kemp's insider perspective on Australian student environmental activism during a time of major change. |
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| Supported living campaign: Autonomy and control by people with disability and their famlies - Belinda Epstein-Frisch describes a campaign that reframed ‘supported accommodation’ where people were allocated a bed in a group facility to ‘supported living’ where people had the right to determine how they live, with whom they live, who provides them with help and support and how they live their lives. Through information sessions, teleconferences and workshops Family Advocacy built demand for something different and then built a coalition of families and services to argue for change. And won! |
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| The Narangba Campaign: From Reactor to Refrigerator (324k PDF) - Robin Taubenfeld. Assessment of the food irradiation and anti-nukes campaign by a lead organiser (Brisbane, Australia). |
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| The role of strategy in advancing nonviolent resistance in West Papua (80k PDF) - Jason MacLeod's case study analyses the West Papuan struggle from the perspective of the theory and dynamics of nonviolent resistance and the strategic principles of nonviolent conflict. He begins by discussing the historical background, root causes of the conflict and the sources of Indonesia’s power in the territory. Historical resistance to Indonesian rule is discussed and contemporary nonviolent struggle against the Indonesian state examined. The paper analyses some of the possible ways forward for nonviolent resistance in West Papua from the standpoint of theory and strategic insights into nonviolent resistance. |
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| Various forms of activism (176k PDF) - Maria Zoretic's overview and synthesis of the Change Agency's case studies 2003-05 |
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| Wildlife Advocates (516k PDF) - Monica Alba Murillo. Case Study of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland |
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| Work Justice and the Will of God: The Uniting Church Campaign Against WorkChoices (108k PDF) - Justin Whelan |
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