James is co-founder of the Change Agency and director of our Community Organising Fellowship.
Democracy in Action technology for the masses
Online campaigning and advocacy tools accessible to all nonprofits to enable people to connect, communicate, take action, and organise.
Enabling Change
Resources and tools on activist training and campaign strategy.
experiential learning david kolb
David Kolb’s model of experiential learning can be found in many discussions of the theory and practice of adult education, informal education and lifelong learning. This website set out the model, and examines its possibilities and problems.
Experiential learning wikipedia
Experiential education is a process for learning through action. The term is often used interchangeably with experiential learning.
Strategic practice: Grassroots policy project
Provides social justice groups with tools and frameworks for more strategic approaches to movement-building.
Campaign Strategy [Chris Rose]
Exploring ideas for structure and strategy applicable to most campaigns. Managed by Chris Rose, author of ‘How to Win Campaigns’.
Advocacy for social justice and sustainability
Steve Chase convenes this incredible postgraduate course at Antioch University, New England.
Training for Change
Training for Change provides activist training for groups standing up for social, economic, and environmental justice through strategic nonviolence.
water glass exercise
This activity is used by Ouyporn Khuankeaw, a trainer in Thailand who most often works with village development workers, women leaders, monks and nuns, and NGO staff. She finds that popular education/experiential education is easier for participants to get the most...
‘Activism and Social Change’ Masters Program @ University of Leeds
This multi-disciplinary course brings together the worlds of academia and social struggle. It is run by academics working and researching with a variety of campaigns, social movement organisations and communities struggling against social and ecological injustice, and...
‘Public Advocacy and Action’ Diploma and Masters program (Victoria University)
This innovative postgraduate course has been specifically designed to enhance the knowledge of professionals working in international and local advocacy, community, human rights and environment areas.
A Force More Powerful (documentaries)
Award winning documentaries tracing the history of nonviolent conflicts around the world.
Audio Video NGO in a box
Tactical Tech and EngageMedia have collaborated to put together a toolkit that lowers the entry level for organisations and individuals wanting to use audio and video as a tool for social change.
Big Noise Films
Big Noise Tactical is a collective of media-makers dedicated to circulating beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images.
Bringing down a Dictator (documentary)
This documentary examines the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October, 2000 by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience.
Chiapas Media Project
We worked with CMP in 2004 to screen their films in Brisbane and to hear how they use media to create social change working with Zapatista communities.
EngageMedia
EngageMedia uses the power of video, the internet and free software technologies to affect social and environmental change. We believe independent media and free and open technologies are fundamental to building movements needed to challenge social injustice.
Activist Rights
Created by the Fitzroy Legal Service the site aims to help Australian activist movements face the police and legal system. Our aim is to help Australian activist networks and movements face the police and legal system, build resilience against repression and to keep...