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How Right To Health Action built Replicable Tactics for a Nationwide Health Movement (Mini Case Study)
There’s incredible power in uniting thousands of experts, health workers, and activists behind strategic health activism and community organizing. It’s this power that helped Jonathan Shaffer, Co-Founder and Organizer for Right to Health Action (R2H), build a grassroots movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For this mini case study, we sat down with members of R2H to learn more about the critical role that strategy and tactics play in their overall efforts.
How Create a Healthier Niagara Falls Collaborative Embraced the Power of Narrative (Mini Case study)
Brian Archie is team Integrator and change agent for the Create a Healthier Niagara Falls Collaborative. Since 2015, he’s helped his organization evolve from a bureaucratic task force to one solely focused on community organizing. With a particular focus on healthcare inequities, Archie and his team members have harnessed the power of narrative to bring the community closer and raise awareness around how to elevate the public narrative around racial inequities.
Training Showcase: Innovations and Lessons from the FICPFM Organizer Training Fellowship (Video & Related Resources)
Learn how the LCN Training Team designed the curriculum, created new materials, and facilitated spaces of practice to empower new leaders from impacted communities on their journey to transform the criminal justice system in the United States.
The Power of Organizing: Stories of Community Organizing Campaigns from across Europe
Case studies and stories of community organizers working in Europe from climate work in Poland to Roma rights in Slovakia and more.
Organizing Twenty-First-Century Activism: From Structure to Strategy in Latin American Social Movements
This article looks at the middle ground between social movements & interest groups by proposing a 3rd structure for social movement organizing, the federative coalition, through a case study of Brazil’s AIDS movement.
Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in Twenty First Century America – Summary & Related Resources
A collation of resources about the book – Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in Twenty First Century America – by Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna and Michelle Oyakawa
Campaign Showcase: Organizing families to reopen schools in Argentina & Mexico (Video)
In Argentina and Mexico, parents and families succeeded in bringing together coalitions of diverse organizations and built national movements to secure the right to education for our children.
Brazil Free Fare Movement (Case Study) (Available in Multiple Languages)
Gabi Juns and Vitor Leal tell the story of how a horizontal and autonomous movement in Brazil called the Free Fare Movement (Movimento Passe Livre) was formed to fight for free, high-quality public transportation.
Bring Back Our Girls (Case Study) (Available in Multiple Languages)
Olatunji Olanrewaju, one of the leaders behind the campaign demanding the return of 276 girls abducted by Boko Haram, tells the story of the campaign and reflects on lessons learnt. This case study was published as part of the Beautiful Trouble toolbox for and by activists around the world.
2020 Public Narrative Impact Survey Overview Report and Public Narrative in Action: Findings from the 2020 Public Narrative Impact Survey (Video)
Public Narrative Impact Survey Report and Video explores how public narrative is being used by individuals as a leadership practice within different domains, and the impact it has had on leadership development at the individual, community, societal, and institutional level.