Plan to Win

Ross House Training Day Effective Action for Environmental and Social Justice You’ve got the passion, but have you got the power? On Saturday 30 June 2012, get skilled up for maximum effect at Ross House with back to back workshops. Each 90 minute workshop is $10 with all proceeds going back into the program. There […]

Following on from the successful Art and Campaigning forum, Holly Hammond and Jessie Boylan are teaming up again to run Art for Community Power. This workshop is part of the Centre for the Human Rights of Imprisoned People (CHRIP) Effective Advocacy Training Program. The program is open to all legal and non-legal advocates and community members, […]

Building strong attendance at rallies and actions is a key skill for campaigners and organisers. Holly Hammond recently spoke with Victoria McKenzie-McHarg from Environment Victoria, who shares her excellent tips here. Interested in this topic? Come along to the next Melbourne Campaigners’ Network session ‘Turnout: Mobilising your base‘, 6-8pm, Thursday 21 June at the Wheeler Centre, […]

Our last Melbourne Campaigners’ Network was on Theories of Change, ably facilitated by Naomi Blackburn. The topic was a great discussion starter, very relevant to anybody seeking to make change in the world. It was especially good to see folks from a mix of backgrounds and social movements engaging in the material – lots of […]

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 turnout at rallies and […]

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 those of you who missed it, here are some of my […]

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 three models, by Martin Luther King, Jr, George Lakey, […]

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 popping up in other towns, as well as some interesting spin-offs here […]

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 campaigners our own theory of change develops […]

Last week I travelled to Aotearoa at the invitation of the Kotare Trust, to facilitate a two day welfare justice workshop. While I was there I heard about the recent ‘Political Poster Art in Aotearoa’ exhibition – a great fit with the upcoming Art and Campaigning forum co-presented by Melbourne Campaigners’ Network and Arena Project […]