Events
Upcoming:
Contact us for more information. Some of our events are privately booked and don’t feature on the website. Sign up to our occasional e-list if you’d like to be informed.
2018
15th November – Our re-launch – Celebrating our new form!
11th November – “Women to the Front” – a collaboration with the Womens Climate Justice network to encourage womens voices in the movement
12th October – The Reluctant Radical – Nicola Paris joins the Environmental Film Festival (discount code here for CounterActivators! EFFARR1650)
August-September – non advertised events
July – Students of Sustainability workshop series
May – Beyond Coal and Gas – workshop series
April – Melbourne City Mission, Youth training series
March
- 18th – Creative & powerful actions – BRISBANE – nonviolent skills training, climate activists
- 4th – Stop Adani film screening – Eltham
February
- Stop Adani film screening – Melbourne
- 10-11th – NVDA training – hosted by Lee Rhiannon for Greens NSW
January
Workshop series – ASEN training camp
2017 EVENTS
October – December 2017
Intensive workshop series – contact for more information
September
- 3rd – Facilitation training – HOBART
- 5th – Creative activism workshop – HOBART
- 30th – Creative nonviolent resistance workshop – MELBOURNE
August
- Invitational workshop series
- 24th – Launch of Brisbane legals collective
July
- Students of Sustainability – several workshops
May
- 27th – Real direct action on climate – NVDA training – Melbourne
- 26th – Action Skills – workshop on creative activism
April
- WASEN retreat – Nonviolent direct action, action planning & social media
January – March
- Training and mentoring workshop series, Save Beeliar Wetlands, WA
2016 SCHEDULE
December
- Sustainability School – Sumatra
November
- 24/25 Organise conference
October
- 22/23 Art and Heart – Creative Activism workshop – more info
- 4th MCN: This is an Uprising
September
- NVDA training – Thoughtworks
August
- Anarchist Bookfair – Climate crisis, environmental justice
June 3-5th – DEFERRED UNTIL OCTOBER – Art and Heart – Creative activism workshop
May
- Break Free from fossil fuels – workshops in the lead up & over the weekend
April
- 28th – New International Bookshop: panel discussion
- 19/26th – Melbourne City Mission – youth
- 8-10th Beyond Coal and Gas: various workshops
- 5th – Advanced NVDA training – Pilliga blockade
- 3rd – No to Westconnex action training – Sydney
March
- 20th March – 350.org Fossil free universities
- 19th March – A Centre for Everything: Omelas, civil disobedience & pizza
- 17th March – CANA: The role of the rebel: Strategic nonviolence for the climate movement
February
- 28th February – Asylum Seeker Resource Centre training
- 25th February – Melbourne Campaigners Network
- 6th February – Let Them Stay
JANUARY 2016
December
- 10th – Centre for Australian Progress
- 1st – Flood the System – training
November
- 4th November – This Changes Everything – Co hosted by Quit Coal, Friends of the Earth & CounterAct – SOLD OUT
October
- 31st Plenary Speaker, NSW Greens conference
- 28th This Changes Everything – Discussion panel
- 22nd Black Hole movie screening – Hosted by Direct Action Melbourne & CounterAct – SOLD OUT
September
- 21st A special shout out to the government and minerals council for taking all our time this month for the parliamentary inquiry. We dedicate the month of September to Georgie boy Christensen!
August 2015
- 29th Melbourne Campaigners Network – Celebrating Creative Activism
- 22nd Westconnex peaceful community training – NSW
June 2015
- All June, The Change Course: second annual advocacy/campaign skills workshop series
May 2015
- 30th and throughout June, The Change Course: second annual advocacy/campaign skills workshop series
- 14th Melbourne Campaigners Network: Organising vs Mobilising
- 13th Launch of our Legal Handbook for the movement challenging coal and gas (with EJA)
- 9th The Future of Civil Disobedience – Panel session at Progress 2015
April 2015
- 28th Cryptoparty – digital privacy workshop (CounterAct co-sponsored, run by Thoughtworks)
- 26th Brisbane nonviolent direct action training
- 19th Sydney nonviolent direct action training – introductory level
- 17-18th Sydney advanced training – by invitation only
- 12th Melbourne – Australian Youth Climate coalition
- 11th Melbourne Campaigners Network: Islamic Museum field trip
February 2015
- 28th February – Nonviolent direct action training, Melbourne
- Mid February – Airlie Beach, Queensland
January 2015
- Anti deportation/refugee advocacy direct action training
December 2014
- Friends of the Earth – NVDA skillshare
October 2014
- East coast tour – Pacific Climate Warriors, training and preparation. Contact for details.
August 2014
- 8-10th August – Nonviolent direct action & campaign skills workshop, Perth
June 2014
- 14th June – Nonviolent direct action workshop, Brisbane (TBC)
- 5-7th June – Ochre Green Territory Environment Conference – Keynote speech and workshop
May 2014
- 31st May – Nonviolent direct action workshop, Melbourne – Open to all
- 18th May – Human Rights Film Festival – speaking on panel at ‘Everyday Rebellion’
- 17th May – Nonviolent direct action workshop – Seaspray, contact for details
April 2014
Throughout April – The Change Course
March 2014
- 28/30th – Act Up 3 – Workshops at Leard forest/Maules Creek convergence, NSW
- 22/23rd – The Change Course commences (continues through April 2014)
- 15th – Lock the Gate direct action training, Seaspray community, Gippsland
February 2014
- 22nd February – Salamcare – Community campaigning
- 15th February – No Macca’s in Tecoma
- 9th February – Camp Quoll, NSW
- 1st February – Direct action for climate activists with 350.org
January 2014
- 26-28th – Leard Forest Alliance, Maules Creek
- Sunday 19th – East West tunnel – direct action & planning day
December 2013
- Adelaide – NVDA training – Summer heat
- Maules Creek – Act Up
November 2013
- East West Tunnel – NVDA training
- Fearless Summer – forest activist training
- WACA – NVDA training
- Summer heat – NVDA national training series with 350.org, Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Greenpeace
October 2013
- Gippsland community training
- The Wilderness Society – Armidale
Past events:
- 4th September – One Day Wonder – Facilitation day
- 25th August – Save Bastion Point
- 25th July – Melbourne Campaigners Network – A report back from Global Power shift
- 13/14 July – Powershift – nonviolent direct action training and civil disobedience panel discussion
- 15th June – The Wilderness Society – nonviolent direct action training
- 1st June – Gippsland community nonviolent direct action training
- 25/26th May – Quit Coal weekend skillshare
- 22/23rd May – Tecoma – nonviolent direct action training
Gippsland folk raring to go after a nonviolent direct action training