ChangeMakers

The city of Barcelona has lived with an unprecedented housing crisis, and in its wake the city created a new kind of radical and successful political party. Former housing activist Ada Colou was elected as the city’s Mayor in 2015, and again in 2019. What led to her success? This story, a re-release of our very first episode back in 2017, shares the story and its lessons from the streets of Barcelona.

This story is explored in the book People Power in Cities, with Kurt Iveson: available here as well as on all the usual online sites.

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For more on the books and Amanda’s writing, have a look at:

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Conscious Tribes: thinking differently about making a difference - here and via Hardie Grant

People Power in Cities - here and via Oxford Uni Press

On Substack - https://substack.com/@amandatattersall

On Medium - https://amandatatts.medium.com/

And - her much earlier book about coalition building - Power in Coalition and via Cornell Uni Press

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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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One of the biggest challenges facing any change maker is how to enlist help from the state, especially when it comes to the fight for economic justice. Australian Labor Party Member of Parliament, Daniel Mulino, has written about the history and future of the welfare state, and in his recent book Safety Net proposes new (and old) ways for imagining the welfare state as a vehicle for managing personal and social risk. This ChangeMaker Chat explores how Daniel’s personal experiences and his time in local, state and federal politics have helped shape his approach to renewing the welfare state. 

This conversation was recorded live at Gleebooks in Sydney, supported by Black Inc Press. You can follow Daniel Mulino @DanielMulinoMP. 

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In too many wealthy countries - political leaders are choosing harsher and harsher policies when it comes to refugees. But there is one country that has decided to treat refugees with basic human decency. Uganda doesn’t lock up its refugees. Instead they live in settlements with freedom of movement, access to land and education. What can the rest of the world learn from Uganda?

We recorded this story in 2017 with support from Australia for UNHCR. It continues to speak to a different approach to how we treat refugees around the globe.

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In this ChangeMaker Chat the tables are turned and the person being interviewed is our host Amanda Tattersall. This is an interview previously recorded as part of the On Purpose Podcast, produced by the Muslim Womens’ Association. Interview host Feda Abdo canvases Amanda’s experience as an organiser, some of her research work on people power in cities around the world as well as her more personal experiences as someone living with bipolar. This is a powerful and at times raw account of what it takes to live the maxim, ‘in order to change the world you first must change yourself.’ 

Thanks to Feda Abdo for hosting this interview and to production team Bilal Abdelwahed (Video Production Lead) and Camelia Gusmardy (Videographer) at Imbuity (https://imbuity.com.au/). 
To listen to the other On Purpose podcasts visit - https://mwa.org.au/on-purpose-podcast/. 

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Could there be a single lever in the global marketplace that could transform the stakes for climate change? Yes - 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. We are re-releasing this 2021 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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How on earth did all those community independents win seats in the May 2022 Election? 

This ChangeMaker Chat talks to Katerina Gaita the Field Organiser and Volunteer Coordinator for Zoe Daniel’s campaign in Goldstein. She unpacks the long march of the independents, starting with Cathy McGowan winning in Indi to the ‘Wave of Teal’ in 2022. As a community organiser and community builder she explains how she learnt to translate her skills as an activist to help her design a campaign that could win a majority of votes for climate and political integrity in a conservative electorate. In doing so she challenges us all to think about the place that elections can play in changemaking.

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While the world is striving to stop catastrophic climate change, there is plenty of conflict over how climate campaign goals are chosen and the language that is used to express them. A key fault line is between the Global North and Global South and whether campaigns about energy transition are imposed onto communities, or connected to solutions that create broader economic, social and cultural justice. Ruchira Talukdar, a climate activist in India and Australia has lived and studied these tensions. In this chat we explore what is going wrong, and how listening and embedding climate work in community empowerment - like we see in Indian anti-extractivist campaigns - could signal a way forward.

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Lots of people say they co-design research and policy with communities, but how do you know when co-design is being done well (and when it isn’t)? We talk to one of the world’s leading autistic participatory researchers, Professor Liz Pellicano from University College London. She shares the elements of good co-design, such as the process of interdependence, the role of relationships and power in the co-design process, and the important place of lived experience researchers. You can follow Liz @liz_pellicano.

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This week we interview one of the world’s leading climate action warriors, Bill McKibben. Bill began as a writer, where his passion for the story and his love of nature drew him to write the first popular global book about climate change - The End of Nature. In the 2000s, dismayed at the lack of grassroots action to stop climate change he founded 350.org. Still fighting - his latest mission is to engage older people in climate action, a movement he has called the Third Act. 

We talk about it all in this wide-ranging conversation about life, politics, and what it means to live and fight when literally the fate of the world is in our hands.

To find out more about Bill’s latest book - The Flag, the Cross and the Station Wagon (an imprint of Henry Holt Books), go here. You can follow Bill on Twitter @billmckibben.

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