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‘Stop the War’ coalition: Amanda Tattersall interview
In 2003 an estimated 250,000 people marched in Sydney against the Iraq war — the biggest demonstration the city had ever seen. A few days later a much smaller group of demonstrators met at the same place to campaign for public education. The first protest was...
The future of campaigning
Obama’s win showed how important technology and real grassroots ownership will be in future contests — lessons that KevinPM.com hasn’t understood yet. Nick Moraitis’s analysis of Barrack Obama’s online campaign.
What’s really behind Obama’s ground game?
The “New Organizers” have succeeded in building what many netroots-oriented campaigners have been dreaming about for a decade. Other recent attempts have failed because they were either so “top-down” and/or poorly-managed that they choked...
Rising Tide popular education resource pack
Spring 2007 Rising Tide North America spent four months touring the US & Canada. This pdf contains step by step explanations of the popular education games, exercises, topics & many of the resources we used.
Links on allies from the Treaty Resource Centre He Puna M257;tauranga
A critical dimension of social justice struggles is the work of the people who support those more directly affected by a particular justice issue, the work of allies. These resources explore the role of non-indigenous supporters of indigenous justice struggles. They...
Learning from Obama: Lessons for online communicators
A six part series examining aspects of the Obama election campaign, with particular focus on online communications. Barack Obama declared his candidacy in 2007, not in 1991, and his two-year campaign for the White House could rely on the internet to an unprecedented...
Mainstream & margin
An activity from Training for Change designed to: assist participants to identify with both marginal and mainstream roles that they play in society; boost awareness of the oppressive characteristics of the mainstream role; gain hope through identifying how they can...
Working as allies: Learning from North America
This report documents learning from a visit, made possible with support from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, to North America in May 2010 to meet with people who are working as allies supporting the struggles of indigenous peoples and/or undertaking anti-racism...
Kumu
Kumu is a powerful cloud-based visualization platform for mapping systems and better understanding relationships.
Koru International Network
We are a growing international social movement (to date New Zealand, Australia and Canada) whose mission is human cultural diversity for bio-diversity; the expression of human diversity and potential in ways which honour the flourishing and evolution of all.
Koori political history timeline
Timeline of significant moments in the Indigenous Struggle in south east Australia.
It goes against our nature but the Left has to start asserting its values
The progressive attempt to appeal to self-interest has been a catastrophe. Empathy, not expediency, must drive our campaigns… by George Monbiot
Introduction to community organizing
EducationAction’s online course, includes a number of articles to provide a comprehensive overview of community organising.
Intelligent measurement
Great collection of resources and links on advocacy evaluation. Check out, especially: “The Challenge of Assessing Policy and Advocacy Activities: Strategies for a Prospective Evaluation Approach” and downloadable resources on communications and...
Inspiring article about the Bulgarian environment movement
Efforts to contain the rallies proved futile. The next day, the number of protesters had doubled. Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, at first stood firm, insisting that nothing could stop investment in winter tourism.
Identifying the training needs of grassroots activists campaigners
Nicola Paris’ report into the training needs for grassroots activists focuses on nonviolent action and related campaigning skills needed, and gives a good oversight of some common experiences for campaigners and case studies.
Diaspora Action Australia
Diaspora Action Australia (formerly the Humanitarian Crisis Hub) works with Australian community groups that promote the human rights of people living in war and conflict. We do this by supporting their initiatives; providing resources, information and...
How to start a free university
MFU have written a simple manual on how to start your own free university, which takes people through our philosophy (why we started the MFU, and the free uni philosophy more broadly) and provides a simple and accessible guide on how to start a free uni i