We spoke with activist educator Holly Hammond about the newly launched Commons Social Change Library, an online repository of freely available social movement stories, strategies and tools.
Amidst the wave of protests shaping the globe in 2019, Animal Think Tank and the activists behind Animal Rebellion have had an extraordinary year. Repeatedly thrust into the mainstream through a range of high profile actions, they've occupied the UK’s largest meat market, and scored a prime time TV show-down between Piers – ‘Peas’ – Morgan and a floret-haired activist called Mr Broccoli.
The Ulex Project is looking for an energised, organised and self-motivated person to volunteer as part of the onsite residential support team for the main training centre.
At a time when the only way to think beyond the horizon of capitalism seems to be dystopian fantasy, Laurence Cox points us to the power of collective agency to re-vision and contest our future. This extract is from his forthcoming book, Why Social Movements Matter, which will be published by Rowman and Littlefield International in July 2018.
Holly Hammond, a member of the Ulex advisory group and founder of Plan to Win, an activist training organisation in Australia helping to develop the skills, clarity and wellbeing we need to win, talks to Ulex about her work.
