Since our Community Organising Fellowship kicked off in 2014, seventy-three passionate organisers have graduated. They’re hard at work building leader-full campaigns and movements right around Australia. Twenty-five graduates came together on Friday 25 November for our first graduates’ retreat, a weekend of conversation, analysis, celebration and connecting. The retreat was timed to coincide with the…
“In a democracy there are only two types of power. There’s organised people and organised money. Organised money only wins when people aren’t organised.” – Benjamin Todd Jealous The Community Organising Guide is a unique resource for campaigners, community leaders and activist educators. It’s a collection of 39 process guides, 50 handouts 4 original case…
Here by the beach in south-east Melbourne, we’ve just come out of a whirlwind 4-month election campaign in the electorate of Dunkley (as well as Deakin electorate in the east, where we worked with ACF). We are building community power through deep and ongoing organising in this area, where the vote is close in state…
My name is Paul Gorrie, and I am Kurnai/Gunai man from the Krauatungalung clan, currently living on Wurundjeri Country. Seed is Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network, connecting young people to protect country and fight for climate justice. “My involvement with Seed, and nature more generally, is a way of continuing the long history that Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people have had with protecting country and all that is on it. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people have been looking after these lands for 60 thousand plus years and we will do it for 60 thousand plus more – we need to move to 100% renewable clean energy and have no new coal, gas or coal seam gas mines.
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My name is Cherry Muddle and I’m the Great Barrier Reef Campaigner with the Australian MarineConservation Society. I work on the Fight for the Reef campaign in Airlie Beach – the heart of the Reef. The campaign is a partnership between the Australian Marine Conservation Society and WWF-Australia. Three years ago we launched the Fight for the Reef campaign in response…
We’re just back from Workshop #2 of the Community Organising Fellowship where our cohort enjoyed a fantastic line up of guest facilitators and presenters. On the first day we dived into two parallel full day sessions, the first on effective organising around an election led by Mark Wakeham, Acting Executive Director at Environment Victoria who…
Newcastle is already the world’s largest exporter of coal and there are plans afoot to increase the export capacity by an additional 50%. Plans for a fourth coal terminal (known as T4) in Newcastle are highly controversial. Coal-affected communities have had enough. The health and social harms of coal mining, coal transport and exports are…
The recently launched Our Land, Our Water, Our Future campaign is a state-wide effort that brings together more than 75 community and environment groups, representing tens of thousands of people from across the state of NSW. Together we are working in our communities to protect our land and water from the destructive impacts of coal and gas. With…
Join a growing network of effective organisers that together will mobilise communities across Australia to move beyond coal and gas.
‘How to’ guides for campaigners, organisers and activist educators.
Hahrie Han’s Moved to Action (published in 2009) tackles the question of what motivates political participation by people...
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How can we maximise the relational potential of tactics that are primarily designed to turn people out for...
On Friday 25 November, we officially launched our new Community Organising training guide during the national FWD+Organise...
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