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Slides from the tCA FoE forums in Sydney Brisbane and Melbourne slides
Our ‘Building the Climate Movement Online’ action research project culminated in a series of workshops. Here are our slides from the workshops.
No to two hour workshops
A short article by Daniel Hunter, training associate with Training for Change.
Smart Chart communication strategy tool
The Interactive Smart Chart is based on the Spitfire Strategies Smart Chart 3.0 – a planning tool that helps nonprofits make smart choices and develop high-impact communications strategies. This online version of the Smart Chart offers an interactive approach to the...
story based strategy
The Center for Story-based Strategy (formerly smartMeme) helps organizations update their storytelling skills to compete in the contemporary media context dominated by viral brands, sophisticated public relations and 24 hour news cycles. The results are creative...
OzGreen
“…empower people and communities to make a unique contribution in building a society that is socially and ecologically sustainable” through youth leadership programs, environmental education and action planning.
Undercurrents
Undercurrents was one of the first activist production companies who put together ‘real news’. Based in the UK, they are a non-profit company mostly working with video makers and communities who have been marginalised or overlooked by TV...
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.
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.
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.
Big Noise Films
Big Noise Tactical is a collective of media-makers dedicated to circulating beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images.
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.
A Force More Powerful (documentaries)
Award winning documentaries tracing the history of nonviolent conflicts around the world.
Learning and mobilising for community development: A radical tradition of community-based education and training
‘Learning and Mobilising for Community Development’ introduces the reader to different ways of thinking about, and organising community-based education and training within different settings. Stories from the global south and north illustrate approaches to...
Active hope: how to face the mess we’re in without going crazy
Active Hope is about finding, and offering, our best response to the crisis of sustainability unfolding in our world. It offers tools that help us face the mess we’re in, as well as find and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a...
Climate action: a campaign manual for greenhouse solutions
“The word academic is synonymous for irrelevant”, declared Saul Alinsky, the influential Chicago activist-educator. A notable exception to Alinsky’s rule is Mark Diesendorf, author of ‘Climate Action: A campaign manual for greenhouse...
Soul of a citizen: living with conviction in challenging times
“Each year in my Citizen Advocacy and Social Movements class, students are looking for reasons to believe change is possible, that activism is worth the effort, and that ‘ordinary people’ like themselves can make a difference. I give copies of Soul to every new...
Activist wisdom
Activist wisdom: practical knowledge and creative tension in social movements Sarah and Sean identify and explore eight themes that both define and catalyse Australian activism. Their potted history of social movement theory is accessible and informative. The...
Effective facilitation
Resources for developing effective facilitation skills. Topics covered include: tips for facilitators; running effective meetings; forming agendas; testing for agreement; and decision making models.