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Activism Inside the Tiger’s Mouth
Katrina Shields and Bobbi Allan reflect on two decades of activist education – Interhelp Australia, the Social Change Training and Resource Centre, Heart Politics and Despair and Empowerment workshops. “Tell your stories, support each other’s highest...
Creative Coalitions: A handbook for change
You know the change is possible – after all, experience across time and examples around the world show the power of smart collective action. Injustices result from human choices, so they can be addressed through human action. But for all the energy that you and your...
How to launch a successful crowdfunding campaign
Success in crowdfunding hinges on the support of the crowd — your future customers. In this blog delves into how to create and launch a successful crowdfunding campaign
Move the money: Practices and values for funding social movements
A set of resources geared towards grantmaking institutions eager to expand and deepen their support of organisations, networks, and leaders involved with social change movements. Move The Money consists of four videos and accompanying discussion guides with reflection...
The top 5 things that go wrong in meetings and how to fix them
[Groupwork Centre blog] Meetings matter. It’s here we bring people together to make decisions, set directions and find out what’s going on. Alongside their role as an engine room that drives our organisation or team, meetings are also places where we establish and...
Telling the truth about philanthropy is the first step to transforming it for generations to come
Michael Johnson and Angie Chen write: A Call-In to Grow Indigenous Power: What would it mean to “decolonize” philanthropy? “Language matters. As Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang have powerfully argued, “Decolonization is not a metaphor,” and shouldn’t be used to...
‘The Pangolin and the Coal Mine: Challenging the Forces of Extractivism, Human Rights Abuse, and Planetary Calamity’
In Australia, the resistance of a group of Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners to the Adani Carmichael thermal coal mine – one of the worlds’ last such mega mines – have centred their rights, including the right to say “no”, in opposing violent extractivism on...
Nonviolent actions against coal
An editable web page that provides details of recent direct actions targeting the coal industry.
Plenary Recordings from Virtual Progress 2020
Did you miss Australia’s biggest online progressive conference? Or do you want to revisit some of the wisdom and inspiration? Australian Progress has made the plenary videos available on the Commons Social Change Library. Includes First Nations Justice, Lessons...
Resources About Australian Housing Justice and Unwaged Rights Campaigns
Iain McIntyre, historian with the Commons Social Change Library, has gathered a collection of case studies and stories of how communities have organised to secure housing, financial and other support for the unwaged and those on low incomes. These campaigns exposed...
Digital security for everyone
This guide is designed for beginners and non-technical people with the aim of increasing security across our whole community. The content is based on research, working with security experts and on the ground experience working with community activists and people who...
Online Monster Manual
The most comprehensive Online Training Monster Manual — over 80 tools to make your workshops and events more participatory and interactive! The Monster Manual features common tools like spectrum of allies, pillars of support, polls, and online spectrums. It includes...
Making strategic decisions in the context of COVID-19
The tools of scenario planning can help social sector leaders better prepare their organizations for the different, possible futures that may unfold. Scenario planning is an approach to thinking about the future that is rooted in the recognition that even in the best...
What’s in your movement pantry?
In this blog, Deepa Iyer (senior adviser with Building Movement) draws an interesting parallel between stockpiling food during the pandemic and cultivating relationships, practices and frameworks to equip ourselves for action. Perhaps we’re more prepared than we...
What do I say? A guide to language about disability
Excellent guide produced by People with Disability Australia. “Ableist language is language that is offensive to people with disability. It can also refer to language that is derogatory, abusive or negative about disability. Ableism is the systemic exclusion and...
19 must-see historic Australian peaceful protest documentaries
There’s never been a better time to brush up on our rich history of peaceful protest movements. Everyday people have protected land rights, our natural world and climate, workers rights, LGBTIQ+ rights and much more. While we bunker down during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Resources to cope with climate anxiety and grief
As more climate change impacts are felt and people become increasingly aware of the challenging future we face it is understandable that many people are experiencing anxiety, grief and a myriad of other feelings. Holly Hammond and The Commons social change library...