Nov 19, 2012 | Case Study, Melbourne Campaigners' Network, Workshop Reports
Melbourne Campaigners’ Network held a ‘Campaign QandA’ last week with a panel of folks from different movements. We heard from: Shaun Murray from Quit Coal. Quit Coal is a rapidly growing community group which campaigns against the expansion of the coal industry in...
Nov 12, 2012 | Case Study, Community Organising, Movement Building
What does it take to build a civil society coalition with the power to shift a city? I recently spoke with Amanda Tattersall, Founder and Coalition Director of the Sydney Alliance. Amanda shared the story of the Alliance’s evolution and the inspiring work of building...
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...