Acting Up!

Tiny Sparks and Turning Points is a monthly selection of protests, strikes and significant dates concerning social change in Australian history. It goes to air on the first Monday of each month on 3CR at 8am. This was the segment for June. It was produced by the Commons Social Change Library, a repository of more than 1500 resources for campaigners, which can be found at commonslibrary.org More hi...

In this podcast Movement Monitor Fellow Isabella Todd interviews Dan Sherrell, from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Desiree Cai, from the Tomorrow Movement. They discuss the lessons learnt from campaigning around a policy and legislation win, in the form of the 2024 founding of the Net Zero Authority. In particular they explore how this work brought together and strengthened relationsh...

 In a conversation held in late 2024 Tarneen Onus-Browne and Noura Mansour discuss solidarity between First Nations and Palestinian communities  in Australia, highlighting the resilience and strength derived from resistance to shared experiences of genocide and settler colonialism. Tarneen Onus-Browne is a proud Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta person through their mother and Bindal and Meriam person thro...

In this episode of Commons Conversations Emily Trounce-Wood interviews anti-nuclear activists Al Lad and Annie McGovern about the 40+ years they have spent opposing the Roxby Downs uranium mine. The pair reflect on their experiences during the 1983 and 1984 blockades against the mine as well as the activism, support and citizen science work they have done in the decades since. To listen to previou...

Common Library Engagement Officer Aoife Carli Hannan chats with two activists from Timor-Leste. First off Aoife is joined by Upe, a human rights activist and member of the LGBTIQA+ community, sharing his experiences in the Pride Movement in Timor, his involvement in international solidarity movements, and his experiences joining the fight to save Binybarra / Lee Point on Larrakia Country. After th...

In this episode Commons Social Change Library Director Holly Hammond chats with Allison Rich and Alicja Pawluczuk from the Endo Violence collective about their creative approach to health activism. To find out more visit- https://endoviolence.com/To listen to previous series of Commons Conversations visit https://commonslibrary.org/commons-conversations-podcast/

In conversation with activist and filmmaker Alex Kelly, Jackie Turner from the Trans Justice Project discusses the importance of building solidarity, community and knowledge of history while combating disinformation. To find out more visit:https://transjustice.org.au/https://commonslibrary.org/the-anti-trans-disinformation-handbook/

In this episode from the third series of Commons Conversations, Kenzie Harris from the Global Grassroots Support Network discusses justice oriented activism and the lessons of successful climate justice organizing with Commons Librarian Iain McIntyre. To find out more visit-https://blueprintsfc.org/ggsn/https://commonslibrary.org/ingredients-for-wins-lessons-from-successful-climate-justice-campaig...

UCLA-based academic and activist Daniel Pérez Gámez collaborates with Thursday Breakfast programmer Priya to bring you a conversation about the struggle for justice and self-determination by Indigenous land defenders and allied activists in Mexico City. Daniel and Priya delve into the land defence activities and criminalisation of the Indigenous community of San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco, Mex...

On this edition of Acting Up! we bring you some of the history of protest against weapons exhibitions on this continent.  We have a look back into the archives and listen to some 3CR coverage of the Australia International Defence Exhibition (AIDEX) in Canberra in 1991 with an edition of the Stick Together program from 7 December 1991 where presenter Dave Sweeney reports from on the ground at the...

When I first arrived there (Woomera) at 3- 3:30 am and it was too dark, I couldn’t see anything.. and in the morning when I woke up I was like OH.. a razor wire? I have came back to prison again? I was expecting they were gonna take me somewhere.. but not like a prison camp! This episode features archival audio and story telling and interview from an Iranian asylum seeker that escaped from the Woo...

They bent like half cooked spaghetti, we didn't expect it to happen like that, to the soundtrack of Amelie (a popular French movie at the time) blowing across the desert from dusty speakers, the fences began to fall. Under the weight of people wanting justice, under the weight of people that had enough...This episode features archival audio, interviews and stories from people that were at the Woom...

In this episode environmental justice activist Radhika Jhaveri (she/her) is interviewed by Kenzie (Mackenzie) Harris (she/they, the principal coordinator for the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN). Radhika is the the GGSN coordinator for India, a member of the youth based collective  “Let India Breathe”, and the founder of Pantrynook- a zerowaste (plastic free) food packaging company. In the...

Aoife Carli-Hannan, engagement officer with the Commons Library, chats with Ned Howey, the co-founder of Tectonica, a movement building agency whose stated mission is “to create a seismic shift in the way politics are done, through innovations that empower social, economic, and environmental justice movements.” Alongside directly helping organizations, political parties, and unions with an array o...

This episode features a conversation between Emily Wood Trounce and Alice Hardinge, the acting Tasmanian campaign manager for the Wilderness Society. In it they explore the practice and value of citizen science and big tree hunting in locating and identifying threatened species. They discuss how this results in a number of valuable outcomes, including allowing conservationists to enforce existing...

Aoife Carli-Hannan, engagement officer with the Commons Library, chats with Hannah O’Rourke, co-founder of the UK based Campaign Lab and a trainer with Social Movement Technologies. They discuss the role AI technologies can play in supporting campaigners with messaging, outreach and other opportunities. They also canvas issues in regards to ethics and regulation, and ways in which activists can sh...

In this conversation community radio broadcaster Mike Tucak interviews Jess Beckerling, campaign director of the WA Forest Alliance about her decades of experience in supporting coalition work and mobilising communities. They discuss lessons drawn from the successful campaign to end the logging of Western Australian forests, many of which can be applied to other issues. This program was produced b...

A conversation between Holly Hammond, Director of the Commons Library, and Rochelle Porteous, the Advocacy Manager at the Council for Intellectual Disability. Rochelle discusses some key wins and the insights she has drawn from a rich history of campaigning. This program was produced by the Commons Social Change Library. To check out more than 1500 resources for activists visit- www.commonslibrary...

A conversation between Sophie Hartley, climate activism researcher with the Commons Library, and Professor Winnifred Louis, director of the Social Change Lab at the University of Queensland. Winnifred is a social psychologist whose research interests focus on the influence of identity and norms on social decision-making in contexts ranging from political activism to peace psychology to health and...

A conversation between Victoria McKenzie-McHarg, the strategic director of Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA), and Judy Lambert, a co-founder of WELA and an environmental activist since the early 1970s. This program was produced by the Commons Social Change Library. To check out more than 1500 resources for activists visit- www.commonslibrary.org

A conversation between Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira and Laniyuk. They discuss a range of topics including the power of Indigenous solidarity, love of land, resistance to rainbow capitalism, and the role of creativity and emotion in achieving story sovereignty and social justice. Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira is the Director of The Pod: Centre for Healing Justice and is from Te Ātiawa, Ngāruahine, Ngā...

Commons Conversations was a summer series of interviews in which campaigners shared their experiences and insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more. The program was broadcast by Community Radio 3CR and produced by the Commons Social Change Library, a website containing over 1000 resources for campaigners, which can be accessed for free at commonslibrary.orgThis episod...

Commons Conversations was a summer series of interviews in which campaigners shared their experiences and insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more. The program was broadcast by Community Radio 3CR and produced by the Commons Social Change Library, a website containing over 1000 resources for campaigners, which can be accessed for free at commonslibrary.org. How did a...

Commons Conversations was a summer series of interviews in which campaigners shared their experiences and insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more. The program was broadcast by Community Radio 3CR and produced by the Commons Social Change Library, a website containing over 1000 resources for campaigners, which can be accessed for free at commonslibrary.orgIn this epi...

Commons Conversations was a summer series of interviews in which campaigners shared their experiences and insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more. The program was broadcast by Community Radio 3CR and produced by the Commons Social Change Library, a website containing over 1000 resources for campaigners, which can be accessed for free at commonslibrary.orgThis episod...