ChangeMakers (AUS)

Could there be a single lever in the global marketplace that could transform the stakes for climate change? What about the insurance industry. 

Over the past 5 years insurance has been turned upside down by a nimble network of climate campaigners that have set new rules to end insurance for fossil fuel projects. 

This is the story of the Sunrise Project, the Insure our Future coalition, and the global and Australian distributed networks that have turned the world of insurance around. 

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If Glasgow tells us anything - the people of the world will need to keep coming together if the politicians of the world are to ever stop climate change. But that begs the question - what does it take for people to come together powerfully? Especially people who are really different.

Building unusual alliances is both an art and a science and those who have succeeded and failed before have a lot to teach us today. This is a special episode from our archive, recorded in 2017, featuring two very different coalitions. Together they share a series of important lessons about building alliances. We love coalition building at ChangeMakers - our host Amanda Tattersall wrote the go to book 'Power in Coalition' and these stories bring many of these ideas to life.

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Across her career, Meena has led large-scale technological changemaking networks in the Global South. She has developed the resources that have allowed communities to work with each other to respond to crisis and disaster - from floods to Covid. In this episode we learn from how she has created scaled change, focused on listening, valuing people, working with communities, and providing spaces for neighbours to help neighbours. 

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Covid has changed the world - not just the pandemic - but equally the challenges and changes to our human systems - how we relate and work together. We recorded this episode back in May 2020 at the beginning of the crisis. It explores three stories where change and hope were making a difference. We looked at healthcare, mutual aid, and the Green New Deal - and saw how people were seeking (and are continuing to build) hope out of difficult times.

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Jane McAlevey is a fierce advocate for winning social change through organising. Her organising method, grounded in decades of experience, mentorship, and the battles of many movements across US history, is that workers and people need to lead their own change. She specialises in teaching how you can support people to do this. 

For unionists, her work is well known - and this episode is a joyous journey into how she came to this approach, and how that approach works. For others in the climate movement or racial justice movements - this is a useful introduction to what Jane means by organising, how it is different to mobilising and some of its crucial features. 

If you are interested in Jane's work, she has published three books and a free online book of case studies that can all be downloaded here - https://janemcalevey.com/. You can find Jane on Twitter at @rsgexp. 

She also runs a global training program called Workers Rising - the most recent session is described here and future sessions will be advertised on Jane's website (you can sign up for updates). 

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This week we explore what it would take to build a movement for nature. Sam Rye is a manager at the Conservation Volunteers Australia. He has been involved in a lifetime of work around regeneration and in networks involving decentralised leadership. He is bringing those two passions together to imagine how people can reimagine their relationship with the earth.

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We talk to one of the biggest names in US community organising, Ernie Cortes. We chat about the history of organising, exploring how it has changed and how it has created a powerful network of organisers that spans the globe. Ernie reflects on the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) under Saul Alinksy, his work building the IAF after Alinsky's death, and some of the practices the IAF uses to develop powerful organisers.

Across the conversation, Ernie mentions dozens of important references and readings that will be food for any existing and want-to-be change maker. We have put that list on our website too, for those who weren't quick enough to grab a pen - https://changemakerspodcast.org/ernie-cortes-changemaker-chat/

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As Afghanistan falls again to the rule of the Taiban, we want to share a lesser-known story of hope - the work of the Kabul Peace House. During the 2000s in the mountains of central Afghanistan, soon after the US invasion, a remarkable but unlikely peace movement began. Led by a man called Insaan, they committed to a process of building peace between people. Over decades they created understanding and connection between ethnic groups and genders in ways that invasion and ideology never could.

This story was written and recorded by our reporter Mark Isaacs on location in Afghanistan, and first released in 2020. Life in Afghanistan is far more complex than how it is portrayed in the daily Western news, in this episode we celebrate the Afghani community leaders who continue to work for a better place and real peace.

You can find out more about this story in the book about Kabul Peace House, by Mark Isaacs - https://markjisaacs.com/product/the-kabul-peace-house/

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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.

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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. 

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