May 21, 2012 | Community Organising, Events, Melbourne Campaigners' Network
The stakes are high, power-holders are poised to make a key decision, and your campaign has been working hard to engage people – now you need a big demonstration of people power. So how do you get people to turn up? This session will look at the ins and outs of...
May 7, 2012 | Book Review, Campaign Strategy, Theories of Change
Aidan Ricketts was in town last week to launch his new book The Activists’ Handbook. The launch was hosted by the Wilderness Society at Kindness House and included a presentation by Aidan on the fast growing and impressive movement to stop coal-seam gas. For...
Apr 16, 2012 | Campaign Strategy, Social Movement History, Theories of Change
Lately I’ve been thinking about frameworks for social change, and I’ve been intending to write about them here for some time. As always, it pays to start with research – and I see the good folks from Training for Change have already put together information on...
Mar 22, 2012 | Art & Creativity, Melbourne Campaigners' Network, Workshop Reports
The Art and Campaigning forum went off! The forum was presented by the Melbourne Campaigners’ Network, in collaboration with Arena Project Space, on the evening of Thursday 15 March. The topic sparked interest near and far, so hopefully there will be similar forums...
Mar 20, 2012 | Events, Melbourne Campaigners' Network, Training
Whether or not you know it, you have the beginnings of a theory of change. All actions which attempt to change society reflect a theory of change of some kind, that is they reflect assumptions about how society works, what change is needed and how change happens. As...
