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How mod is your mob?

How can we build high performing mobilisation teams and strong engagement cultures to win bigger? It takes a continued investment of focus, resources and time to build mobilisation teams and engagement cultures. Greenpeace’s Mobilization Lab created this...

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This month’s featured tactic…

We love the New Tactics for Human Rights website, especially their catalogue of innovative tactics that includes case studies of each tactic. This month’s featured tactic is building public and media awareness to change the minimum wage and policy for...

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Climate advocacy lab

Designed for climate practitioners—advocates, social scientists, data experts and funders—the Lab promotes effective tools and tactics for engaging Americans on climate change. The Interactive Tools provide easy access to helpful climate change information, while the...

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The trouble with stories

Chris Rose writes: “It concerned me that campaign groups adopting story-telling so enthusiastically seemed to have been influenced by the fashion for personal-story story-telling in ‘movement making’ in American politics (eg Marshall Ganz and the ‘story-of-me’,...

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New Zealand Fellowship > applications open now

First round applications close on 15 December for our first New Zealand Fellowship – an intensive skills turbo boost in advocacy and campaigning for leading changemakers. The fellowship involves five evening webinars with expert presenters, and is book-ended by two...

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Bird-dogging

Bird-dogging has nothing to do with animals and everything to do with grassroots power in action! To bird-dog is to “observe, follow, monitor and/or seek out with persistent attention.” Basically, you show up at the candidates’ events, ask them to commit and ask them...

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Politicians ignore people power at their peril

Nathan Elvery writes: Online petitions are redistributing power in the most fundamental way any generation has seen – away from a male, pale and stale elite minority and into the hands of ordinary citizens from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. If this accelerates...

Base building (CVH Organizing Tool Kit)

  Why is it important to build a large base of people? An organization or a campaign builds a large base in order to have enough power to win. Numbers matter! The more people we can mobilize to show our power, the more power we will have to make policy changes to...

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Civil disobedience in the public interest

Most civil disobedience is in the public interest – though some might be better planned, more strategic or more successful it is rare that people participate in civil disobedience with selfish or malicious motive – it is generally done in in the interests of the...

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