Oct 20, 2012 | Case Study, Movement Building, Occupy
It’s a little over one year since Occupy Melbourne kicked off in City Square, one year since the dramatic and traumatic eviction by police acting on behalf of the City of Melbourne. It’s timely to look back on the phenomenon that was Occupy Melbourne. The...
Oct 15, 2012 | Campaign Strategy, Featured, Gender
Wow, everyone is talking about sexism these days, right? It’s suddenly popped on the agenda as if it never existed before, or as though everyone got too numb and sleepy about it, and then along came a big bucket of cold water to wake us up. For those folks who’ve been...
Oct 8, 2012 | Events, Melbourne Campaigners' Network
It’s Melbourne Campaigners’ Network #qanda style but instead of partisan quarrelling we have a panel of clever campaigners: Shaun Murray, Quit Coal Wil Stracke, Australian Services Union Renee Carr, Global Poverty Project We’ll look back at the year in...
Oct 8, 2012 | Fundraising, Melbourne Campaigners' Network, Workshop Reports
It was another fruitful Melbourne Campaigners’ Network session with around 25 folks turning up to discuss fundraising on September 27. A range of community organisations were represented, with diverse experience of campaigning and fundraising amongst the participants....