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 as tunnelling, occupying buildings and throwing pies. Last year military convoys through Rockhampton were halted by naked protesters in the street and by people who attached themselves to vehicles.
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Introduction to community organizing
EducationAction’s online course, includes a number of articles to provide a comprehensive overview of community organising.
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‘Public Advocacy and Action’ Diploma and Masters program (Victoria University)
This innovative postgraduate course has been specifically designed to enhance the knowledge of professionals working in international and local advocacy, community, human rights and environment areas.
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Activist training in the academy
Steve Chase’s PhD dissertation: an action research study that begins by raising the question of whether environmental studies programs within higher education should launch activist training programs for public interest advocates and grassroots organizers.
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Steve Chase’s blogspot: a well trained activist
news, views and resources from members of Antioch University New England’s Environmental Studies masters program concentration in Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability.
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‘Activism and Social Change’ Masters Program @ University of Leeds
This multi-disciplinary course brings together the worlds of academia and social struggle. It is run by academics working and researching with a variety of campaigns, social movement organisations and communities struggling against social and ecological injustice, and for a more equal, just society.
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