A project of Earthroots, Greenpeace Canada, OPIRG Toronto, OPIRG York, OPSEU,the Centre for Women and Trans People at York, and the George Brown Student Association, Tools for Change helps you develop skills to campaign for social, environmental, and economic change. We host over 20 workshops a year. Workshop costs range from $20 to $50. Scholarships available. Interested in Tools for Change delivering a speaking engagement, capacity building program, or workshop tailored to your … [Read more...]
Five Things I Wish I Knew When I First Became Politically Active
At this year’s awesome George Brown College Labour Fair Conference, I (Jessica Bell) gave a presentation that outlined five things I wish I knew when I first became politically active. What do you think of what I've learned? What have you learned that you wish you knew when you started being an activist? … [Read more...]
Campaign case studies
Sometimes the best way to learn about campaigning is to review case studies of successful and unsuccessful campaigns. Campaigning, after all, is not a simple 1+1=2 activity. It's complicated, and real life campaign case studies can do a decent job of unveiling the nature of social change. The Democracy Center in California has written a nice report profiling seven successful climate change campaigns. Campaigning for International Justice is a huge report written by Brendan Cox. The … [Read more...]
Rally Organizing
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Workshop on social media for activists (part 1)
Last week I hosted a workshop on social media and advocacy. Here's a write up of the first section of this workshop. More to come in the coming days. … [Read more...]