Resources: building coalitions

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Third Sector: The first steps needed to raise your charity’s profile

The first steps needed to raise your charity’s profile
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The Reunion: Stonewall

BBC Radio 4 series reuniting people involved in a moment of modern history. This session brings together the men and women who were instrumental in the early years of the gay rights campaign group, Stonewall: Sir Ian McKellen, Matthew Parris, Lisa Power, Michael Cashman and Olivette Cole-Wilson.
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Comment is free America: The limits of the 'Twitter revolution'

The new digital technologies are powerful tools in moments of crisis, but they cannot substitute for sustained citizen activism
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Guardian article: Netroots UK: Activists discuss next stage of protest against cuts and fees

Coverage of the Netroots conference. The conference was an opportunity to build successful coalitions between campaigning groups and merge tradition with initiative new ideas, with a particular focus on ‘new media’ and how to utilise it.
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Fix my street website

Community-based site that allows you to report, view or discuss local problems. A great platform to campaign on local issues.
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Film: Matewan

Union activist Joe Kenehan is sent to help organize a struggling and disjointed union so they can stand up to the company operators and gun thugs. A film about the power a campaign can have when people set aside their differences and come together to make a stand.
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Book: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Mutual aid is the concept of humans co-operating together in order to form a stronger soceity and is therefore a key theory relating to campaigning for social change. In this book Kropotkin's scientific argument insitis that mutual aid is the most important factor in the evolution of the species.
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Blog against sexism

The global campaign ‘blog against...’ encourages discussion of a set topic (in this case sexism) within the blogging sphere. A good example of how the internet can be used not only to raise the profile of an issue, but also to encourage communication, debate and discussion.
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