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MIT offer $250,000 for civil disobedience for the benefit of society
MIT are now accepting nominations for the first-ever MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award, which carries a $250,000 cash prize, no strings attached. This award will go to a person or group engaged in what we believe is an extraordinary example of disobedience for the...
Civil resistance online library
The International Centre for Nonviolent Conflict aims to build the most accessible online library on civil resistance, with resources for activists, scholars, members of INGOs, journalists and the policy community. Whenever possible, we include links to download or...
Nonviolence trainers’ resource manual
Training for nonviolence can be an important first step in helping people to confront fear and support each other when facing police, community and institutional opposition to their activism. The Trainers’ Resource Manual is a collection of training tools that...
Civil disobedience in the public interest
Most civil disobedience is in the public interest – though some might be better planned, more strategic or more successful it is rare that people participate in civil disobedience with selfish or malicious motive – it is generally done in in the interests of the...
Nonviolent Struggle: 50 crucial points
This book is a primer on applying strategic nonviolent action in real campaigns. The techniques outlined in the following 15 chapters have been used successfully in many parts of the world. Contained in the book are lessons learned from many long and difficult...
Blueprint for revolution
In Blueprint for Revolution, Srdja Popovic outlines his philosophy for implementing peaceful world change and provides a model for activists everywhere through stories of his own experience toppling dictatorships (peacefully) and of smaller examples of social change...
What’s wrong with the radical critique of the People’s Climate March?
Last Sunday’s march was an important step toward building a popular movement for climate justice, which, in turn, is a necessary condition for more radical actions… Having the most radical-sounding solutions in the world is all for naught if those solutions are...
The art of protest: From Jabiluka to Bentley
The Jabiluka Blockade, like the Franklin River Dam protest and Terania Creek forest campaigns that preceded it, was a defining moment in the social movement history of our country.
University training targets Talisman
Protesters planning to come to Rockhampton during the three-week exercise would have been given an activist’s handbook suggesting effective methods of causing disruption. However, it said the course had been cancelled. A previous manual promotes techniques such...
One year up a tree
Miranda Gibson’s inspiring one-woman action to protect Tasmania’s ancient forests. Testimony to the power of personal action.
The mobilisation integration toolkit
Tools and tactics being used by Greenpeace to develop successful mobilisation strategies and people-powered campaigns.
The Alchemy of Protest: When do mass political demonstrations work?
You can never say in advance what effect demonstrations are going to have. When the masses take to the streets, all bets are off. The power of demonstrations lies, it would seem, in the overtly public nature of the challenge that they pose. Authoritarian governments...
The AIDEX 91 protest: A case study of obstructive direct action
Ian McIntyre’s 2011 Masters thesis and oral history on the 1991 AIDEX protest. This thesis will provide a history of the AIDEX ‘91 protest. In doing so it will seek to understand why the issue of arms fairs arose at this time as well as how and why a particular...
Sending the protest message
Brian Martin and J0rgen Johansen ask: what makes a protest action effective? Heads of government are coming to town. Let’s organise a protest! We’ll have a massive rally and march. Those who want to can blockade the venue. We’ll make our concerns...
Politics, protest and performativity: The Broome community’s ‘No Gas on the Kimberly Coast’ campaign
Kathie Muir’s case study focuses on the community campaign against the proposed gas hub development over the 2011 to mid-2012 period. In particular, it considers some of the means through which the various strands of opposition have woven an effective...
Identifying the training needs of grassroots activists campaigners
Nicola Paris’ report into the training needs for grassroots activists focuses on nonviolent action and related campaigning skills needed, and gives a good oversight of some common experiences for campaigners and case studies.
From hippies to lobbyists
Is direct action more effective than protest? Greenpeace history (video)