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Category: Case Study

Case studies of actions and campaigns in Australia. A case study provides a look at what did and didn’t work, to help with planning future campaigns and actions effectively.

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First Nations Resources

We cannot lessen the impacts of climate change if we do not learn from the mistakes of the past. Aboriginal and First Nations people must be centred in decision making. …

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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 …

Banner reading Protect Songlines with activists seated beneath in the red dirt of the Kimberley
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Case Studies

Case studies of specific campaigns and wider movements which offer insight into how to undertake effective activism. “Facilitating, building, empowering movements for positive change; economic, ecological and social justice.” Workshop …

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Fossil Free Arts – Breaking social license

We have been really excited to see the emergence of work from creative artivists on challenging fossil fuels and extractivism. Its long been our view that challenging the social license …

Michael Mansell “ Australia Day is a a celebration of an invasion which resulted in the ethnic cleansing of Aborigines”.
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Being an ally on Jan 26, 2021 and beyond

First off. Listen. That is what we are doing. And we aren’t writing this to centre our own experiences. We are writing it because we take the time to try …

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Covid not so safe – the case for conscientious objection

EDIT NOTE 8/5/20 – Yes, this is a long post. We want to provide context for the bigger picture of some data, privacy and surveillance concerns but also outline the …

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Climate Justice

What do we mean when we talk about Climate Justice? When understanding and engaging with the global climate crisis, it is easy to overlook that the impacts are not being …

rebalancing rights
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Suppression of the right to protest

We were thrilled to be invited to submit an essay to this brilliant collection – Rebalancing Rights – Communities, Corporations, and Nature. What would change if we decided that the …

20 people on a red dirt road with a large banner that says protect country
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Non-Indigenous allies MIA at Stolenwealth games

We were disappointed to see the lack of allies supporting the brave Aboriginal resistance at the Stolenwealth (Commonwealth) games earlier this year. Beth Muldoon writes about being there, and ideas …

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My Health Record – opting out

UPDATE, 15th November 2018 – Concerns still remain, and the date has been put back again until January 31st 2019 A huge amount has happened since we posted this overview …

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