Skilling up for social change | tCA enews Sept 2020

What's on top?

Curious about the Community Organising Fellowship? Thinking of applying? Join us next Wednesday for a lunchtime briefing with graduates and the core facilitation team. <Full details and registration.>

We're recruiting now for next year's Fellowship, with applications extended to 31 October. Each year, a cohort of 25 campaigners extend their skills and confidence to build people power. It's Australia's most intensive training program for social and environmental justice campaigners.

Next year's Fellowship will be led by Adele Neale and Maxwell Smith, two experienced activist educators and organisers. James is stepping back, after 7 years, and has taken on a new role with the Climate Action Network of Australia.

Thanks, this month, to Daniel Hunter for sharing his new 'Online Monster manual' (link below). What a terrific resource for folks who are regularly facilitating online workshops and meetings. And to Holly Hammond and the team at the Commons Social Change Library, for sharing links to a collection of resources on housing campaigns and recordings of this year's online Progress gathering. Enjoy!

Finding (just) what you need

Our collection of resources for campaigners and organisers has almost 1000 downloads and links, shared with us over the last 15 years. To help you find a resource that corresponds to your specific interest or need, be sure to click through to our Build Your Own Toolkit. It's a quick and easy way to search for *that* resource by selecting …

Apply now for COF2021

Applications are now open for the 2021 Community Organising Fellowship for social and environmental justice campaigners. The Community Organising Fellowship is Australia’s most intensive training program for experienced campaigners seeking to expand their organising skills and build powerful networks. The Fellowship is an immersive six-month program that expands participants' capabilities and resources through practical individual and team-based exercises, case studies and access …

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.

People Power: The Strategic Dynamics of Civil Resistance (online course)

The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) will host our annual free, moderated online course, “People Power: The Strategic Dynamics of Civil Resistance. In this course, over 50 highly motivated and collaborative participants from around the world will join with selected moderators to: * Study scheduled modules of selected readings, videos, and pre-recorded experts and practitioners’ input on key aspects of …

Digital security for everyone

This guide is designed for beginners and non-technical people with the aim of increasing security across our whole community. The content is based on research, working with security experts and on the ground experience working with community activists and people who believe government and corporations do not have the right to spy on people by default. Produced by Glenn Todd.

Online Monster Manual

The most comprehensive Online Training Monster Manual — over 80 tools to make your workshops and events more participatory and interactive! The Monster Manual features common tools like spectrum of allies, pillars of support, polls, and online spectrums. It includes speciality organizing tools for analysis and tactic generation like paper plate challenge and Action MadLibs. It boasts a wide number …

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 the structural issues at the root of poverty and homelessness and forged community power and solidarity in response to …

Plenary Recordings from Virtual Progress 2020

Did you miss Australia's biggest online progressive conference? Or do you want to revisit some of the wisdom and inspiration? Australian Progress has made the plenary videos available on the Commons Social Change Library. Includes First Nations Justice, Lessons from the Disability Justice Movement, Organising in this Moment with Marshall Ganz, All in for a Feminist Recovery and more.

Social Justice Toolbox

Twenty terrific workshop resources on privilege, ally-ship, race and racism. The Social Justice Toolbox is a resource hub for free, curated, ready-to-rock social justice activities and facilitation guides designed to help you make the most of your diversity workshops and social justice trainings.

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