strategy
Nonviolent strategy wheel (Rob Burrowes)
If nonviolent struggle is to be effective, it requires a sound strategic orientation. This, in turn, requires a thoughtfully designed strategic plan. This plan may be generated using the strategic framework outlined on the Nonviolent Strategy Wheel which identifies...
Process Guide | Transactional and relational approaches
This 90-minute workshop helps differentiate between transactional approaches that aim to mobilise large numbers of people and relational approaches that form deeper connections and identify shared values and self-interest. Participants assess the...
Swarm | Decentralised organisation
Swarm is Anyi’s program on decentralized organization which asks the question: how do we engage thousands more people in our organizations? What Anyi have learned from a diverse range of contexts and disciplines (including biology, complex systems, network...
Networked change | How progressive campaigns are won in the 21st century
What makes some of today’s most successful advocacy campaigns work, while so many others fail to make an impact? The Networked Change Report maps out the strategies and practices that made 47 of today’s most successful advocacy campaigns work. These campaigns achieved...
This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
There is a craft to uprising – and this craft can change the world. From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and...
The Sierra Club Movement Organising Manual 2016
This manual is designed to aid your work as an organiser: building campaigns that enlist grassroots power to achieve outcomes that improve the world. Our objective is to lay out key ideas and practices that, in our experience, result in campaigns that succeed. This...
Beautiful Rising
Beautiful Rising harnesses the insights of changemakers worldwide to help make our movements more strategic, creative and effective. Beautiful Rising is written by and for frontline activists — particularly youth, women, indigenous peoples, and others who face...
Legal advocacy as a strategy
TCC Group has been examining how advocacy organizations use legal advocacy as a strategy and how funders can best support that work. Here, they share the results of their work to help inform funders, legal advocates, non-legal advocates, and evaluators about the field...
Occupying the Movement Action Plan
The Movement Action Plan described by activist Bill Moyer gives a useful lens through which to view this. In Bill’s typology, Occupy Wall Street would be called a trigger event, bringing stark injustices into everyday conversation…
10 LESSONS FROM BRITAIN’S CAMPAIGN GURUS
Earlier this year, Sam McLean (former CEO of GetUp Australia) spent two weeks working with British campaigning wizards, 38Degrees — the British sister organisation of GetUp. Here are his top 10 lessons for campaigners from our British mates: “It was just a...
New style lobbying: How GetUp! channels Australians’ voices into politics
We see their spokespeople quoted in the papers and their ads on TV, but beyond that we know very little about how Australia’s lobby groups get what they want. This series shines a light on the strategies, political alignment and policy platforms of ten lobby groups...
Black Lives Matter and America’s long history of resisting civil rights protesters
Black Lives Matter activists have received plenty of criticism from political candidates and their supporters and surrogates. The majority of Americans haven’t embraced the activists’ message or strategies, either; fewer than a third of Americans said Black...
A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World
But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives. As in the environmental world, many in the black community are seeing limits to traditional advocacy…...
Not so grassroots: How the snowflake model is transforming political campaigns
Stephen Mills writes: “Campaigning has broken out from the electoral context and evolved into a new tool for business, government and civil society actors. Campaigning is now the dominant form of collective political activity in Australia. Waves of...
Conservation enterprise: lessons for corporate engagement
Does engaging with corporations compromise independence and integrity or reduce pressure on nature, and mobilise resources for conservation? Pepe Clark’s 2016 paper discusses key lessons for conservation leaders, including the need for conservation...
Would Saul Alinsky break his own rules?
Alinsky’s influence today is also present in networks such as PICO, DART, USAction/Citizen Action, the Gamaliel Foundation, and the former branches of ACORN. Collectively these organizations claim several million members, and the tradition has spread internationally...
Beyond the win: Pathways for policy implementation
When it comes to policy, a lot of attention is given to “ the win.” Whether it is something new and big like the Affordable Care Act, a piece of legislation in a large federal omnibus bill, or inclusion of critical language in a state policy, seeing the fruits of...
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...