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Official Channels

Official Channels

By: Brian Martin

Official channels are things like grievance procedures, ombudsmen and courts. They are supposed to resolve problems and provide justice. However, trust in official channels can be misplaced: in many cases they may give only an illusion of a solution. In Official Channels, Brian Martin tells what he has learned about formal procedures set up to…

People Power Manual : Campaign Strategy
General News

April 29, 2020

tCA’s new training guides (drum roll please …)

We’re super proud to announce the 2020 edition of the Campaign Strategy training guide, now available as a download and in beautiful hard copy. The Change Agency team have been designing, collecting and adapting activist education curriculum for more than 15 years. Working with Jason MacLeod and Pasifika, we’ve been striving to transform our combined…

theories of change guidelines
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April 21, 2020

Theories of change

A theory of change can help guide campaigners, their teams and communities. A well-crafted theory of change helps align the available energy, keeping your team focused and clear headed about the change you plan to make and how. In our workshops, we often use a basic three-part format to train campaigners to clarify their theory…

Climate Resistance Handbook

If you’re wondering how to build a powerful, strategic movement that can make big wins for climate action, this is your guide.

The Climate Resistance Handbook brings together a wealth of learnings from the climate justice movement. It starts with breaking social myths about how social movements win. Then dives into campaign tools and frameworks you can use. It closes with how to grow your group and use creative, impactful actions and tactics.

This book is full of stories of climate warriors from around the globe and historical movements. It’s filled with practical wisdom and inspiration to make you more effective, more active, and ready for what’s next.

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Ask Labor Jane: “I Quit My Job to Dedicate Myself to Organizing. What Now?”

Jane McAlevey has been an organizer and negotiator in the labor movement for over twenty years. While she continues to organize, she writes for various publications and is the author of three books. Hundreds of new organizers have passed through her trainings. Now, you can have your own organizing questions answered, in Jacobin’s newest column, “Ask me about labor and strategy,” with Jane McAlevey.

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It’s In Our Hands Now: Localizing Resistance to Fight Climate Change

Oakley Hill writes: “Failures and derelictions of governments around the world should send a clear message to average, everyday citizens: It is up to us to disrupt business as usual, decrease emissions, and keep temperature rises below 1.5ºC. Such a daunting task may leave us to wonder just how much ordinary citizens with seemingly no extraordinary power can really accomplish in fighting climate change…”

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The Commons Social Change Library

The new Commons Social Change Library recently launched online with hundreds of resources to support community action.

The Commons contains articles, manuals, training materials, practical tips, podcasts and videos all in one handy online location. Topics include Campaign Strategy and Tactics; Organising; Digital Campaigning; Nonviolent Direct Action; First Nations Resources; Communications & Media; Working in Groups; Wellbeing; and much more.

The Commons features collections from social movement capacity builders including the Change Agency, Australian Progress, Original Power, CounterAct, ChangeMakers, and Plan to Win.

Take some time to browse the library’s virtual shelves. Visit whenever you find yourself needing a resource to strengthen your social change work or just some inspiration. Contact a Librarian if you have trouble finding what you’re after, if you would like to contribute resources, or have suggestions for what should be included in the future.

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