Changemakers

In 2018 we interviewed Hahrie Han one of the United State's prominent researchers on community organising, community leadership, and social change. This episode explores her research on civic engagement and some of the cut through theorising she has done contrasting ‘mobilising' and ‘organising strategies. For anyone interested in how people can work together to make powerful change to advance their values and solve their problems - then this is for you! We release this now as Hahrie has just released a co-authored book called Prisms for the People - the next installment of powerful thinking in this space.For more on ChangeMakers - go to https://changemakerspodcast.orgFor more on Hahrie's books - https://www.hahriehan.com/booksFollow us on Twitter - @changemaker99 or Facebook hereSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When can political parties be real change makers and produce big change? Ed Miliband, former Opposition Leader for the UK Labour Party shares some of the lesser-known stories that have shaped his political identity and his ambitions for a politics that can go big. We discuss the role of labour and social democratic parties in the change making space. We reconsider the idea that ‘politics is the art of the possible' and Ed shares some of his insight into the kind of politics that is needed for these challenging times. We have some follow up resources for this episode: In the episode, Ed makes reference to Arnie Graf. For a ChangeMaker Chat with Arnie go here - https://changemakerspodcast.org/arnie-graf-community-organiser-changemaker-chats/ Ed also mentions Citizens UK. For a podcast with Jonathan Cox Citizen UK's co-director go to - https://changemakerspodcast.org/jonathan-cox-scale-and-organising-changemaker-chat/ Ed mentioned BREXIT, for a ChangeMaker story about how the campaign worked go to - https:

On 14 February 2018 a lone gunman entered Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida and killed 17 people. In the days following, a group of students from the school built a campaign to change gun laws in America. Everyday students like Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg became household names as a social movement called March for Our Lives staged a national conversation around gun violence. This episode tells their story featuring teachers, students and parents who were there that day and part of the movement that grew. We released this story in 2020. It is part of a three-part series about March for Our Lives. Episode two is about art and politics after Parkland, and episode three is about identity. For more on ChangeMakers visit our website - https://changemakerspodcast.org/. You can find us on Facebook or on Twitter at @changemakers99.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of President Biden's first acts was to stop the Keystone Pipeline. It was a victory that arose out of a long battle. First Nations leaders from Standing Rock, in coalition with Indigneous leaders from around the world, initiated this campaign in 2016 to protect their land and water from destruction. But for hundreds of years before this, the Sioux Nations have defended their land and fought for sovereignty. This story features the voices of some of these leaders. The story was first released in 2017, years before the pipeline was stopped.For more about ChangeMakers visit - https://changemakerspodcast.org/.  You can find us on Facebook or on Twitter at @changemakers99. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does it take to build powerful coalitions between different groups with different interests and passions? The idea of working together sounds nice, but what makes a coalition work when the rubber hits the road.This is an episode of two very different but equally successful coalitions. The first talks to organisers in the coalition that delivered the BREXIT deal in the United Kingdom. The second tells the story of the grassroots leaders who build a coalition to stop gas fields being built across the Northern Rivers of NSW in Australia. Each story draws out crucial, transferable lessons about coalition building, drawn in part from our Host Amanda Tattersall's book Power in Coalition (2010).There are further links to writing and training about coalition building on our website - www.changemakerspodcast.org (via story page).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scale is a buzzword in social change circles, but what does it actually mean to scale social change? Community organiser and Deputy Director of Citizens UK Jonathan Cox unpacks the idea of scale. We discuss the importance of one-to-one relationships, organisation, and networks as resources that help social change ideas move from the small to the big and from place to place.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dany is a philosopher and writer whose latest book Summertime documents her experience inside the 2019 Bushfires. Today we talk about her journey and how she has learnt to speak about crisis. We discuss the power she has drawn from bearing witness. Dany identifies strategies for how change makers can walk with crisis, and harness the power of structural story-telling in how they make change.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is an episode we recorded in 2017 in Moscow, telling the long story behind the broad-based resistance movements that have exploded across Russia in support of Alexis Navaley. These leaders have mixed feelings about Navaley as a figure, but the story shows that even in an authoritarian state - people will stand up for their needs - even when they face threat and intimidation.For more on ChangeMakers head to - changemakerspodcast.orgYou can find us on Twitter @changemakers99 and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tyson Yunkaporta belongs to Apalech clan of North Queensland. He wrote Sandtalk and is an iconoclast - helping us to see things differently in a modern world of crisis and chaos. Join us on a chat that explores a different understanding of power, change, and being. For more on ChangeMakers go to our website - https://changemakerspodcast.org/ Tyson's book Sandtalk is available here - https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/sand-talk The episode is supported by the Learning Change project created by the Anthropocene Transition Community Hub - https://www.at dash hub.org/.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you need a charismatic leader to make change in the world? Arnie Graf's life's work shows the answer is ‘no.' He's spent 45 years working with people like you and me to build movements that collectively lead change. This episode talks about how he got there and what he learnt. He shares how he was trained by Saul Alinsky the grandfather of community organising, and he reflects on his book Lessons Learned.Find out more about ChangeMakers - https://changemakerspodcast.org/ Find us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast Join the discussion on - https://www.facebook.com/groups/changemakerchats/Twitter - https://twitter.com/changemakers99 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Following the 2021 coup by the Burmese military, the Burmese community have built an extraordinary civil disobedience movement to call for the return of democracy. Today we speak to Myint Cho a long-time Burmese pro-democracy activist, active in the student movement in 1988, and then based at the Thai-Burma border for 12 years. He shares the long history of the struggle and explains what is happening today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is a sexual assault crisis in Australia right now. Today we have a special episode - a re-recorded speech that was delivered by host Amanda Tattersall to 500 year 9 and 10 female and male high school students at a public high school in Sydney's inner West Sydney for its International Women's Day Assembly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does it take for a teenager to turn into a planet defender? Jean Hinchliffe is a climate campaigner and a new author of activist handbook Lead the Way. Today she talks about her activist journey and the lessons she has learnt about making powerful change. Find more about ChangeMakers on our website - https://changemakerspodcast.org/ where you can sign up to our email list for updates. Follow us on Facebook -https://m.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ Or Twitter @changemakers99 or our host Amanda on @amandatattsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are back on 2 March. Here is a taster of what is coming.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The power of our largest corporations is all around, but what happens if a corporate foot soldier decides - “enough.” Then uses her inside knowledge to teach people like you and me how to level the playing field? Michelle Meagher is a corporate lawyer and now whistleblower on the system ready to share lessons and insights about how to dramatically change market power.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can we use old social change strategies like one to one relationships to make electoral politics different? Adam Barbanel-Fried and his organisation Changing the Conversation Together did exactly this in the 2020 US Election. As a long time community organiser he used Deep Canvassing - door to door conversations that could help voters interpret the election through the eyes of those who they love. The strategy proved to be a powerful antidote to Trump's Presidency. Adam shares his journey that led to his embrace of this work, how Deep Canvassing works in practice and what it might mean to changing politics more broadly.Find out more - https://changemakerspodcast.org/ Follow us on Twitter - @changemakers99 or our host Amanda Tattersall on @amandatattsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During the 2000s, in the mountains of central Afghanistan, a remarkable but unlikely peace movement began. How did they even define peace in a place beset by war,  and how did they organise themselves to work towards this audacious goal?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Killelea is one of Australia's most successful businessman and a self-described peace maker! In this Chat we talk about why he combined these two passions. We explore how his peace work developed, from an idea hatched while working in Africa to creating the largest index for peace in the world!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mike Gecan is a 45 year veteran organiser based in the United States. He is the former National Co-Director of the first, largest and oldest community organising network in the world - the Industrial Areas Foundation. He talks to us about what organising is, and what it is not. He shares stories about how he learnt about power, and explores some of the differences between social change traditions like mobilising and organising. He also gives us a fresh take on the upcoming Trump v Biden 2020 US Presidential Election. Go to our website link for additional reading, materials and links referred to in the podcast. https://changemakerspodcast.org/mike-gecan-changemaker-chatSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Samuel Chu is a long time community organiser and the founder of the Hong Kong Democracy Council in the United States. In this Chat we explore how he has connected his identities as an organiser and a Hong Konger to create a radically different form of international solidarity in the US. His approach translated the energy of protest into politics, securing bipartisan support for multiple pieces of legislation in support of Hong Kong. We also consider how his work provides lessons for how we might push back against rising authoritarianism in other places across the world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.