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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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Why activists fail | Robert Burrowes

Robert Burrowes writes: “The foundation of any sound strategy… is a thorough understanding of the conflict. This means, most importantly, having a clear sense of the ‘big picture’… not just the detail of the issue on which you focus. Fundamentally, this requires an astute understanding of the global power structure. If we do not understand how power works in society, particularly structurally, including in relation to the conflict we seek to resolve, then we cannot plan and implement a strategy that will work.”

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Measuring political will

A win often means getting the support of elected officials, and the Policymaker Rating method was designed to measure just that. This brief shares scenarios where this method was applied and modified to show what has worked (and what utterly failed).

This resource is part of the excellent ORS | Impact collection. Strongly recommended!

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Critical path building – a different view

Critical path building allows campaigners to map a proposed campaign route and identify the key events, resource and time constraints and other dependencies which need to be taken into account as a milestone objective is approached. This level of analysis is essential in determining which possible campaign route will in practice emerge as the best to pursue. Nick Gallie’s excellent site provides guidance for anyone who is trying to mount a campaign, run a campaign, or direct a programme of campaigns.

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An Australian civil society success story | Joan Staples

Late 2017, Joan Staples first wrote of threats to democratic advocacy from three foreign interference Bills.  Then in November 2018, the final most controversial Bill, the Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform Bill, was passed with the support of civil society. The story of this transformation from horrified opposition to support for the Bill is a story of Australian civil society working together to influence legislation in a way rarely seen. It opens the way for future collaboration to proactively promote the strengthening of our democracy. [Joan Staples coordinates the mentoring program in the Change Agency’s Community Organising Fellowship]

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