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Our big news is probably a very poorly kept secret. Just last week we launched our new Campaign Strategy Guide - the first instalment in our 6-volume Power Power Manual. The Guide is selling well online and in hard copy, and feedback has been amazingly encouraging. Many of the 24 how-to (process) guides are familiar to tCA subscribers and folks who've participated in our workshops. Some are new. Curriculum development is an addiction for some of our team, and we've cooked up new strategy workshop ideas just since publishing the guide including the 'Assessing Political Opportunity' process guide featured below. We'd love your feedback if you try it out.

We're on the brink of offering places in next year's Community Organising Fellowship. More than 50 terrific activists and organisers applied, making short-listing a tough gig. Next year's four workshops are taking shape too, with some great new sessions and guest facilitators planned.

This month's enews includes a review of Clare Land's new book 'Decolonizing Sollidarity', written to help non-Indigenous activists support Indigenous struggles. Clare is in New York this week, holding book launch events at Bluestockings bookstore and activist centre on Sunday and Tuesday. Folks who haven't yet explored the tCA website might like to know we have a great collection of book reviews with web links to sites where you can purchase most featured texts. Be sure to drop us a line to promote your latest publication... or books that are transforming your campaigns. 

All the very best for success in your social change work.

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manual launch

Launching our Campaign strategy guide: Instalment #1 of the 'People Power' manual

We launched our Campaign Strategy Guide last week at the Organise 2015 conference in Sydney. Pasifika director and co-author of the Guide, Jason MacLeod, described how many of the 24 how-to process guides contained in our new publication are being used by activists in Australia and the Pacific. Advocacy Coach and all-round movement builder Anita Tang gave the guide her thumbs up, …

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policy steam convergence

Assessing policy windows: our new campaign strategy process guide

If you've been a campaigner for more than a year or two, you will surely have experienced brick walls... campaigns that just don't seem winnable. You're focused on a real problem and have a sense of a policy solution, but your campaign just isn't gaining traction. There's some excellent research on the policy cycle and how to assess opportunities for change …

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How many climate activists does it take to run a good open space?

How many climate activists does it take to run a good open space?

- Mick Power, Membership and Campaign Coordinator, US Climate Action Network How many climate activists does it take to change a lightbulb? Or to change the world? How many facilitators does it take to run a successful open space session for 300 climate activists from across the US, to develop shared strategy for the Paris talks and 2016? At the …

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decolonizing solidarity

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 predominant impulses which drive middle-class settler activists to support Indigenous people cannot lead to successful alliances and meaningful social change unless they are …

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Great online resources

Enews subscribers regularly share with us the websites and online resources they’re developing, discovering and learning from in their community organising. Enjoy this month’s batch and be sure to drop us a line to suggest links for the next enews.

activist state

Activist State (Documentary: 1968 San Francisco Student Strike)

The 1968 student-led strike in San Francisco was the longest campus strike in United States history. The five-month event defined the University’s core values of equity and social justice, laid the groundwork for establishment of the College of Ethnic Studies, and inspired the establishment of ethnic studies classes and programs at other universities throughout the country.

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the new now

The New Now: Working Together for Social Change

LGBT movement leaders know that the discrimination LGBT people face—embedded in cultural norms, policies, and laws—is still a part of the fabric of our everyday lives. This report highlights the intersectional approach through case examples in two states where LGBT activists have been using a multi-issue lens in their work to build a strong web of organizations and activists working together. 

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Upcoming learning opportunities and events

For details of other workshops and learning opportunities, visit our calendar.

Campaig Bootcamp

Campaign Bootcamp | 18-23 October, Yorkshire

Campaign Bootcamp is a training programme based in the UK for anyone who wants to learn how to campaign effectively. It starts with a week of intensive training in strategy, digital tools and much more delivered by the best campaigners around. That's followed up with mentorship, further training and support from the friendly and diverse Bootcamp community. Their next programme …

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groupwork institute

Supervision and Performance Management Course | 20-21 October, Melbourne

Supervision is a cornerstone of high quality management. People who learn supervision with us gain: Practical skills for high quality supervision Processes for supervision and performance management Self awareness Emotional intelligence Confidence to have challenging conversations 21st century collaborative leadership skills Increased output from your team. This course is popular with a wide range of people responsible for staff supervision …

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reclaim activism

Reclaim activism: Community responses to end sexual violence | Brisbane, 30 October

Join us for an exciting and inspiring evening to hear about Brisbane's creative community responses and campaigns to address sexual violence and rape culture. Come and celebrate these achievements with other women and find out how you can get involved and be part of this change. This is a Women Only Event. Full details and registration here >

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groupwork institute

Self awareness at work | 10 November, Melbourne

This one day training builds actual workplace self awareness at a practical level which can be used immediately. Self awareness is the primary building block of emotional resilience. In turn, emotional resilience is applied emotional intelligence. It gives us the capacity to be 'bold' - to speak up, to share our ideas, take risks and use our full potential.  It …

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community development

Community Development Intermediate Course | 11-12 November, Melbourne

Become more confident in designing & facilitating community development programs & activities  Feel more confident in practicing community development in your workplace  Examine the issues, challenges and dilemmas of Community Development  Connect theory with practice  Hold conversations with decision makers & other Community Development workers  Access to further learning resources  Use the modes of head (intellect), heart (feelings), hands (practical …

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not-for-profit people

Not-for-profit people conference | 16-17 November, Melbourne

“Amazing” . . . “One of the best conferences I’ve been to” . . . ”Awesome calibre” . . . “Loved it” . . . “Brilliant conference” . . . “It was outstanding” . . . “I left feeling inspired”. That’s just a fraction of the feedback we received from almost 300 attendees at last year’s Not-For-Profit People Conference. And …

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