ChangeMakers (AUS)

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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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/.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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