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The ChangeMakers Podcast tells stories of people changing the world.
We produce ChangeMaker Chats with people who share why and how they make change, and we also do documentary style epis
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In this chat celebrated UK community leader Patrick Vernon shares a series of stories about how he has learnt to combined the strengths of putting pressure for change through grassroots activism, and negotiating for change through inside lobby and compromise. Patrick is known for his work in gaining recognition for Black migrants in the UK, particularly in campaigning for the recognition of Windrush Day and the contribution of Black leaders in UK history. He also has a fascinating set of experiences weaving change in external pressure for international solidarity and internal change in institutions like the NHS.
Rather than our sometimes polarised political strategists that see activism or formal policy change as separate choices, Patrick makes the case for their versatile and creative interconnection if we are to make change across a progressive political ecosystem.
ChangeMakers 2024 is supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. This year they are supporting ChangeMakers to bring together a collection of Chats filled with extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/ucl-policy-lab and www.civicpower.org.uk/.
For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org (where you can also sign up to our email list!)
On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts
On LinkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall
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This episode is a tour de force in the art of change making and the Black history of housing activism in Cape Town. Nkosikhona Swaartbooi has been a leading activist in the Reclaim the City movement that has fought for working class housing in Cape Town's urban core. He is now featured in a documentary called Mother City (2024) that shows this remarkable urban struggle.
In this episode he takes us through his own journey and the city's journey to make radical change. For those fighting for housing in the Global North, this episode offers so many lessons about the versatile use of different strategies to make change, as well as the power of perseverance. No matter where you are, this is an inspiring story of change making at any moment has a long history.
For more on Mother City, including information on how to invite the team to film festivals:
https://www.mothercitydocumentary.com/
For more on the previous ChangeMakers episodes linked to this episode:
On Barcelona (see the second half of this episode)
On Reclaim the City
For more on Reclaim the City - the housing movement we discuss: https://reclaimthecity.org.za/
ChangeMakers 2024 is supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. This year they are supporting ChangeMakers to bring together a collection of Chats filled with extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/ucl-policy-lab and www.civicpower.org.uk/.
For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org (where you can also sign up to our email list!)
On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts
On LinkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall
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Our governments play a role in providing care and support to families and kids - but we don't often think about how those services are provided and whether they actually deliver sufficient 'care.' In this conversations Jarrod Wheatley explores his experience in working in the out-of-home care space, and unpacks a distinct model of care that is based explicitly on relationships and connection.
For anyone who has personally, or knows of people that have experienced institutionalised forms of care - whether in aged services or child services - this is for you. It is a story of a different kind of care that could transform how our governments fund and support care in and across communities.
For more on Jarrod's work:
The organisation Jarrod created to promote this different kind of care:
Centre for Relational Care website: Centre for Relational Care
The report outlining what this different model of care might look like:
James Martin Institute for Public Policy report August 2024: JMI report on Supporting Children and Families to Flourish (centreforrelationalcare.org.au)
A short piece about the relational approach to care: The Policymaker article by Jarrod Wheatley December 2023 Children in crisis need real relationships: the case for a child connection system (jmi.org.au)
Additional materials on the state of care:
Professional Individualised Care website: https://pic.care/
For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org (where you can also sign up to our email list!)
On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts
On LinkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall
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In the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris's nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we bring you a another story of hope - about US how the people responded to President Trump's election in 2016.
Indivisible began as a google doc and turned into the largest anti-Trump movement in the US in support of affordable healthcare and democracy! In this episode we bring you that story, from the perspective of the grassroots leaders that made it happen.
This episode was first aired in 2018.
ChangeMakers 2024 is supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. This year they are supporting ChangeMakers to bring together a collection of Chats filled with extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/ucl-policy-lab and www.civicpower.org.uk/.
For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org (where you can also sign up to our email list!)
On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts
On LinkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Moz Azimitabar is one of Australia’s most celebrated emerging artists, having been a finalist in the Archibald Prize twice. But Moz is not like other artists, he found his art not at art school but in the barbarism of Australia’s offshore detention regime in Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.
Moz sought refuge in Australia because he was persecuted for fighting for human rights in Iran, and in seeking refuge he found art as a way to live in the confines of his offshore prison.
In this episode Moz talks to us about what art means to him as a fuel and an expression for making change.
We also had Moz on ChangeMakers back in 2022 where he talked about his journey as a refugee and his time in Manus. You can find the podcast here or on all the podcast apps (the episode was released in February 2022).
ChangeMakers 2024 is supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. This year they are supporting ChangeMakers to bring together a collection of Chats filled with extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/ucl-policy-lab and www.civicpower.org.uk/.
For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org (where you can also sign up to our email list!)
On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts
On LinkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall
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This week we get a little personal and our host shares some of her experiences about making change.
How can we hold together big ambition for social change on issues like climate alongside the small work required to build powerful connections across our diversity and difference? This piece explores the tensions of scale between big and small, fast and slow through stories and reflections across a life of organising. Our host Amanda Tattersall reads a memoir that she wrote for the Griffith Review in their August 2021 edition entitled Hey Utopia.
You can find the Griffith Review here: www.griffithreview.com/editions/hey-utopia/ (and read the excerpt here as well).
For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website – changemakerspodcast.org
On Facebook – www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On Twitter – @changemakers99 or @amandatatts
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How do elections and new governments change how we make change?
In the wake of the election of a new Labour Government in the UK, we talk with Matthew McGregor from 38 Degrees about what the new government might mean for progressive political strategy. We explore Matthew’s background and his time working with unions and the Obama campaign to learn more about 38 Degrees and its digital first strategy for engaging thousands of everyday UK citizens in political life.
We explore the tensions and challenges that come from pushing for change when social democratic governments are in power and the need to agitate for more as well as celebrate the change we can win. We explore how the focus of progressive campaigning shifts from stopping the outrages to offering solutions and some of the nuances in navigating that work - straddling disappointment and delivery, and when and how to press for greater ambition.
For anyone chewing over what the UK election means (or what elections mean generally for political strategy) - this is a chat to get you thinking about some of the choices that lie ahead.
For more on 38 Degrees go HERE.
For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org
On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts
On LInkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall
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There is a lot of talk about the need for diversity, but what does diversity actually mean?
In this conversation Rathana Chea shares how he has learnt how to value the power of difference and connection across his time in making social change, sharing insights from social movements while he was in school, to community organising, to working with Greenpeace International and now working to create the Multicultural Leadership Initiative as part of the Australian climate movement.
This conversation cuts through the platitudes that often dominate “diversity talk”, responding to the language of awkward politeness with a practice of kindness and clarity about how to create space where people of colour can lead and thrive because they are driving movements that speak to their own needs and interests.
For more on the Multicultural Leadership Initiative see HERE.
You can follow Rathana on LinkedIn HERE.
You can find more about Rathana at his website HERE.
For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org
On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts
On LInkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall
ChangeMakers 2024 is supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. This year they are supporting ChangeMakers to bring together a collection of Chats filled with extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/ucl-policy-lab and www.civicpower.org.uk/.
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In this special UK national election episode we are joined by Marc Stears from UCL Policy Lab and Martha MacKenzie from Civic Power to talk about the 2025 national election from the perspective of participatory and everyday politics.
Civic Power Fund and the UCL Policy Lab are sponsors of this podcast, and this episode was conducted in London in the middle of the election campaign. It explores the context of electoral politics, how the election is creating a space for people’s involvement in politics and what all of this means for people after the election.
ChangeMakers 2024 is supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. This year they are supporting ChangeMakers to bring together a collection of Chats filled with extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/ucl-policy-lab and www.civicpower.org.uk/.
For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org (where you can also sign up to our email list!)
On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts
On LinkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall
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The UK’s Nana’s against Fracking are a grassroots movement that spread across regional UK communities to stop gas fracking. The movement was led by a legion of women who had never, or only at a distance, been involved in making change, but felt compelled to act when they found out about the catastrophic effects of fracking on the environment and community Tina and the Nanas were a magnificent example of people seeking and achieving ordinary hope - showing the kind of community power that lies in all of us.
This episode is a ChangeMakers #UKSpecial.
Nanas against Fracking take some inspiration from their sisters the Knitting Nanna’s in Australia! ChangeMakers produced an episode on gas extraction in the Northern Rivers that features these Nanas back in our first season, and you can find it on ACAST or on our website.
You can find the UK Nanas on X/Twitter here @UK_Nanas and Tina Rothery @tinalouiseUK.
ChangeMakers 2024 is supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. This year they are supporting ChangeMakers to bring together a collection of Chats filled with extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/ucl-policy-lab and www.civicpower.org.uk.
For more on ChangeMakers check us out:
Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org (where you can also sign up to our email list!)
On Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/
On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts
On LinkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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