social justice
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...
Official Channels
Official channels are things like grievance procedures, ombudsmen and courts. They are supposed to resolve problems and provide justice. However, trust in official channels can be misplaced: in many cases they may give only an illusion of a solution. In Official...
Rethinking social change in the face of coronavirus [SSIR]
How should the social sector respond to the evolving crisis? How will nonprofits, foundations, philanthropic organizations, and social justice advocates emerge from the pandemic? What unique insight and capabilities can civil society bring to bear on the problems the...
How is the COVID-19 crisis changing the global movement landscape?
Amber French (ICNC) offers a big-picture framework for how the Covid-19 crisis is impacting activism, organizing, and civil resistance movements. The article defines four main phases to make sense of this moment and begin planning a transition to the post-Covid-19...
How to make your social justice event accessible
Krysia Birman (The Commons Social Change Library) writes: “If you are organising a Pride march or a youth rights event, for example, why not take the extra steps to make the gathering as accessible as possible? You won’t get everything right, but you can find...
Climate Justice Resources | Seed & AYCC
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have looked after this land sustainably for tens of thousands of years, this gives us hope that we can do it again. To find out more about Indigenous history and the struggles for justice, Seed and AYCC recommend you check...
Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua
Jason Macleod is a member of the Change Agency team: a dedicated activist educator, mentor and strategist. Having dropped out of university in 1991, Jason hitched to northern Queensland then made his way to Papua New Guinea. Hiking and paddling the Sepik, he made his...
10 tips for public health advocacy
There are many important principles and lessons that public health researchers and advocates who hope to influence policy and practice need to consider. In this paper, I set out what I consider to be 10 of the most fundamental of these. Together, these focus on the...
Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and directions for supporters of Indigenous struggles
In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that...
The New Now: Working Together for Social Change
The recent victories related to the rights of LGBT people have been astounding. The success on LGBT issues, especially marriage equality, is often attributed to a coordinated, unwavering, laser-sharp focus on changing policy at both the state and federal levels. So it...
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide
Daniel Hunter’s accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change. Learn about your role in movement-building and how to pick and build campaigns that contribute towards a bigger...
Working as allies: Resources from the Treaty Resource Centre
These resources are intended as discussion starters for groups or think pieces for individuals interested in the topic of working as allies. They have been developed from discussions with people in North America who are working as allies supporting the struggles of...
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...
Farmworker Movement: Primary source accounts by the UFW volunteers who built the movement
This project seeks to compile and publish primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993. Si Se Puede! (Yes, we can!)
Class matters
“Often the paid organizers in low-income communities come from professional middle-class backgrounds. I worked as a community organizer for many years, and the class dynamics can be tricky…”
Book review: ‘The Black Grapevine Aboriginal activism and stolen generation’
After decades of forced removal of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and communities, the 1980s saw the development of a national advocacy and policy organisation to speak up for the rights of the Aboriginal and Islander...
Book review: ‘Fight for liberty and freedom’
In Fight for Liberty and Freedom, John Maynard, describes what is was like to be Aboriginal one hundred years ago. He offers us the story of someone who fought to proclaim the voice and protect the rights of his fellow Aboriginal people
Participatory Research In Asia
An international learning centre based in India promoting participation and democratic governance.