Getting Action: The Democracy Center’s New Advocacy Blog!
Citizen advocacy is an art, a collection of skills that one does not learn in any school. Effective advocacy is a mix of the insight that experience brings and the creativity that the lack of...
View ArticleGetting Action: Keystone XL Denied, Big Oil Incredulous
by Ben Brouwer On Wednesday the Obama Administration rejected TransCanada’s permit application for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, handing another victory to a strategic and successful climate...
View ArticleRio+20 and Green Economics
Follow our Reporting from this Week’s UN Conference in Rio! Dear Friends, This week the Democracy Center team, myself included, is in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Global Conference on...
View ArticleGetting Action: What Does Climate Change Mean to You?
Messages from the 21.09.14 People’s Climate mobilizations, North and South The Democracy Center had ‘boots on the ground’ in Cochabamba and Oruro in Bolivia, and New York, London and Dublin for the...
View ArticleSaving Water – Saving a Way of Life
Stories of Inspiration and Resilience from Argentina to Peru by Lydia Caudill I am an agricultural activist who steers away from the “NO” campaigns (‘Stop this’ or ‘No more of that’). I find strength...
View ArticleStructure of a Movement
This is a visualization tool on how movements work from the New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) in the UK. It asks the following questions about how the roots of movements function: 1.Common values...
View ArticleHow to…Get started with campaigning
A handy little guide from UK-based Global Justice Now, a veteran of campaigns and organizing and which has its own network of local action groups. This is one of a series of Activist resources...
View ArticleThe Change Agency CAMPAIGNERS TOOLKIT
This toolkit from the Australia-based The Change Agency contains a unique and indispensable collection of more than 1,000 resources for activists and organizers including workshop tools, case studies,...
View ArticleJam Facilitation Manual
From the Yes! international social change program. Not recipes for making preserves but a jam-packed (sorry) manual of ideas on facilitation when working with groups of young changemakers, from setting...
View ArticleCreative Coalitions – A Handbook for Change
A useful handbook for activists, including chapters on How to Choose Where to Put your Efforts, Staying Behind the Scenes, Creative Tactics, and A Culture that’s Hungry for Impact. ‘This is a Handbook...
View ArticleTools for System Change
Friends of the Earth, as part of Friends of the Earth Europe’s School of Sustainability, have produced a series of resources for campaigners to help them focus their work on system change. The...
View ArticleVideo Conference – International Solidarity Campaign with the anti-mining...
As part of our efforts to help document successful campaigns against extractive projects in Latin America, we co-hosted this video conference together with the Institute for Policy Studies - IPS. We...
View ArticleInterview with Food and Water Watch Director Wenonah Hauter – connecting...
The US fracking experience, according to Food and Water Watch Director Wenonah Hauter, should be a cautionary tale for movements on the other side of the Atlantic. In a recent short interview before...
View ArticleHow Ireland Banned Fracking – The Importance of Connecting Across Struggles
Global Frackdown 2017 – the international day of action against fracking – has a particular significance in the Republic of Ireland this year. It will be marked by a huge party in Leitrim in North...
View ArticleDHUMA Receives Letelier Moffitt International Human Rights Award.
Puno-based human rights organisation DHUMA -Human Rights and Environment- a close Democracy Center ally in our work on the Aymarazo case, has won a prestigious international human rights prize. On...
View ArticleMake Local Advocacy Stronger by Connecting It to the Bigger Story
Progressive political activism in the United States is on the rise. Often it is most vibrant in our local communities, where issues are tangible instead of abstract. In our cities and towns, young...
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