Plan to Win

Kyinzom Dhongdue from Australian Tibet Council shares the story of a recent campaign win and the lessons that can be taken from it.  On 16 April, a prime time news program on Australian TV broke the story on the country’s oldest university cancelling a talk by the Dalai Lama. Within a week, the University of [...]

Plan to Win has launched a new project to promote the health and wellbeing of activists – Plan to Thrive. Plan to Thrive is a multi-author blog featuring articles, interviews, reviews and tips from contributors around the world.   The first content on the blog is a taste of what’s to come: An interview with [...]

For our end-of-May event we’ll be focussing on all the good stuff – it’s the perfect pre-election morale boost!  We’ll share stories of recent Australian campaign wins and significant wins from social movement history. We’ll be looking at how campaigners can use stories and experiences of success to build momentum, maintain morale, attract active supporters, [...]

By now I’m sure you’ve heard the news – Woodside has pulled out of the proposed gas hub development at Walmadan (James Price Point in the Kimberley). The development may still be on the table in some shape or form, but for now this is an important victory for the No Gas campaign. As Nicola [...]

Nicola Paris has recently returned from six months in Broome supporting the community campaign against Woodside’s proposed gas hub. She’ll be sharing her observations and insights at our next Melbourne Campaigners’ Network event: ‘Lessons from the frontline’, this Thursday 12 April at the Wheeler Centre. Nicola introduces the campaign in this article – come along [...]

NB: Venue change There’s a lot of talk about the importance of ‘narrative’ these days. But what does that really mean, and how can we harness the power of story-telling to make our campaigns more effective? This new full-day workshop includes: Making story central to your campaign strategy. Learn creative tools from the Center for [...]

What we can learn from the struggle for Country and community in the Kimberley. Nicola Paris has just returned from six months in Broome supporting the community campaign against Woodside’s proposed gas hub. She’ll be sharing her observations and insights including: The role nonviolent direct action has played in delaying work, increasing pressure on the [...]

Learning from US election campaigning is like eating a meal in a US diner – you have to pick out the good bits from the parts you just can’t stomach. So, yes to effective field organising and no to a political system corrupted by colossal amounts of money. Yes to message discipline but a maybe [...]

“Humour is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.” Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals In January I was asked by New Tactics in Human Rights to be a conversation leader in their international online dialogue ‘Using Humour to Expose the Ridiculous’. Many excellent tactics and stories [...]

Australians can learn a lot from the US – like the perils of an unregulated market, how not to set up a health system, and what happens if you consume a lot of high fructose corn syrup. The US is also a rich source of social movement innovation. As an activist educator many of the [...]