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Winning The Next Climate Fight
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10 Tips from GetUp's Decade of Campaigning
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Elections and Activism: Case Studies
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Together for Treaty
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Elections and Activism: Campaign Skills
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Deep Roots, Real Power: Candid Stories from the Field
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Local Power: Shifting Power at the Local Level - Candidate School
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Messaging Guide to Counter Far Right Narratives
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Is Digital Campaigning Dead?
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2022 Australian Federal Election Analysis
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Bluesky 101: How-to Guide for Progressives
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Real Problems, Real Solutions: A Messaging Guide to Move Beyond Racial Scapegoating in the Victorian Election
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The 2023 Voice Referendum Outcome: A Messaging Guide
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New to the Commons? | David Bollier
If you’re coming to the commons for the first time, it can be difficult to grok the idea because there are so many different ways to understand the commons. That’s because the commons is not so much a fixed, universal thing as a general concept describing durable, dynamic sets of social relationships for managing resources -- all sorts of resources: digital, urban, natural, indigenous, rural, cultural, scientific, to use some crude categories.
The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth | Aeon Essays
Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight
Think Like a Commoner | A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons
In our age of predatory markets and make-believe democracy, our troubled political institutions have lost sight of real people and practical realities. But if you look to the edges, ordinary people are reinventing governance and provisioning on their own terms. The commons is arising as a serious, practical alternative to the corrupt Market/State.