160+ days of brutality & beautiful resistance
Overview of genocide and struggle in Palestine with FAQ, comprehensive & cited references, challenges to Israel & Australian claims & inspiring global resistance
Training
Building out this Training section is going to be a big project for us in the second half of 2024. We have scheduled a huge overhaul for this area of …
Nonviolence
What we learned over more than 15 years of training people for direct action and peaceful protest is that nonviolence means many things to many people. What is nonviolence? To …
Millions raise voice for JAILED climate activists and anti-protest laws
Over 230 organisations – listed below – representing millions of members across the country have united to condemn the recent 15 month jail sentence for climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco …
Report into the Policing of Beeliar
Our report into the policing of the Roe 8 protests and community responses was launched in May 2017. CounterAct supported the Beeliar Legal Support team to coordinate this, and the …
We Need to Wage Peace, Not War on Climate Change
Guest Blog by Phil Evans – originally published on Shouting For Deliverance War!! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! So why would we, as renowned author and founder of …
Civil disobedience in the public interest
It’s a challenging process to write a submission for a parliamentary inquiry that seems so likely have a forgone conclusion. The committee that is examining the tax deductible status and …
Defending the commons
This article was originally published in New Matilda: Environmentalist and non-violent direct action trainer Nicola Paris hits back at a parliamentary inquiry threatening green groups’ tax exempt status. More than …
Kimberley
The people of Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia won a significant campaign against a proposed $45 billion project. In April 2013 they stopped the development of a …
Resources
There are so many wonderful resources for organisers and campaigners already out there. We have added a collection here, and have written or adapted others for the needs of the …