ChangeMakers (AUS)
250 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -ChangeMakers Podcast tells stories of people trying the change the world. Each week, host Amanda Tattersall travels the globe, talking to the people involved in extraordinary campaigns, finding out what works - and what doesn't. Hopes, fears and regrets are revealed. Story by story, the lessons of how to change the world are teased out. Over ten episodes ChangeMakers looks at twenty campaigns, in 14 countries across the globe. From anti-Putin activists in Moscow, to democracy advocates in Hong Kong, to environmental farmers in northern NSW, ChangeMakers shows change is possible.
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The Best Climate Campaign You've Never Heard Of
November 22, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MBCould there be a single lever in the global marketplace that could transform the stakes for climate change? What about the insurance industry. Over the past 5 years insurance has been turned upside down by a nimble network of climate campaigners that have set new rules to end insurance for fossil fuel projects. This is the story of the Sunrise Project, the Insure our Future coalition, and the global and Australian distributed networks that have turned the world of insurance around. For ...
Climate Justice, Coalitions and Glasgow
November 01, 2021 22:10 - 47 minutes - 44 MBIf Glasgow tells us anything - the people of the world will need to keep coming together if the politicians of the world are to ever stop climate change. But that begs the question - what does it take for people to come together powerfully? Especially people who are really different. Building unusual alliances is both an art and a science and those who have succeeded and failed before have a lot to teach us today. This is a special episode from our archive, recorded in 2017, featuring two ve...
ChangeMaker Chat - Meena Palaniappan - Digital ChangeMaking
October 18, 2021 12:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBAcross her career, Meena has led large-scale technological changemaking networks in the Global South. She has developed the resources that have allowed communities to work with each other to respond to crisis and disaster - from floods to Covid. In this episode we learn from how she has created scaled change, focused on listening, valuing people, working with communities, and providing spaces for neighbours to help neighbours. For more on ChangeMakers Podcast - check us out at https://chang...
#ICYMI - Recalling the beginning of Covid and the early seeds of change
October 04, 2021 23:05 - 44 minutes - 41.8 MBCovid has changed the world - not just the pandemic - but equally the challenges and changes to our human systems - how we relate and work together. We recorded this episode back in May 2020 at the beginning of the crisis. It explores three stories where change and hope were making a difference. We looked at healthcare, mutual aid, and the Green New Deal - and saw how people were seeking (and are continuing to build) hope out of difficult times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
Jane McAlevey - ChangeMaker Chat
September 20, 2021 13:00 - 56 minutes - 52.6 MBJane McAlevey is a fierce advocate for winning social change through organising. Her organising method, grounded in decades of experience, mentorship, and the battles of many movements across US history, is that workers and people need to lead their own change. She specialises in teaching how you can support people to do this. For unionists, her work is well known - and this episode is a joyous journey into how she came to this approach, and how that approach works. For others in the climat...
Sam Rye - ChangeMaker Chat
September 06, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 44 MBThis week we explore what it would take to build a movement for nature. Sam Rye is a manager at the Conservation Volunteers Australia. He has been involved in a lifetime of work around regeneration and in networks involving decentralised leadership. He is bringing those two passions together to imagine how people can reimagine their relationship with the earth. For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Ch...
Ernie Cortes - ChangeMaker Chat
August 23, 2021 13:00 - 48 minutes - 45.8 MBWe talk to one of the biggest names in US community organising, Ernie Cortes. We chat about the history of organising, exploring how it has changed and how it has created a powerful network of organisers that spans the globe. Ernie reflects on the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) under Saul Alinksy, his work building the IAF after Alinsky's death, and some of the practices the IAF uses to develop powerful organisers. Across the conversation, Ernie mentions dozens of important references and...
ICYMI - A different Afghanistan - The Kabul Peace House
August 16, 2021 13:00 - 56 minutes - 53.2 MBAs Afghanistan falls again to the rule of the Taiban, we want to share a lesser-known story of hope - the work of the Kabul Peace House. During the 2000s in the mountains of central Afghanistan, soon after the US invasion, a remarkable but unlikely peace movement began. Led by a man called Insaan, they committed to a process of building peace between people. Over decades they created understanding and connection between ethnic groups and genders in ways that invasion and ideology never could....
ICYMI - Hahrie Han - ChangeMaker Chat
August 09, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBIn 2018 we interviewed Hahrie Han one of the United State's prominent researchers on community organising, community leadership, and social change. This episode explores her research on civic engagement and some of the cut through theorising she has done contrasting 'mobilising' and 'organising strategies. For anyone interested in how people can work together to make powerful change to advance their values and solve their problems - then this is for you! We release this now as Hahrie has just...
Ed Miliband - ChangeMaker Chat
July 26, 2021 13:00 - 45 minutesWhen can political parties be real change makers and produce big change? Ed Miliband, former Opposition Leader for the UK Labour Party shares some of the lesser-known stories that have shaped his political identity and his ambitions for a politics that can go big. We discuss the role of labour and social democratic parties in the change making space. We reconsider the idea that 'politics is the art of the possible' and Ed shares some of his insight into the kind of politics that is needed for...
ICYMI - Parkland Students
July 12, 2021 13:00 - 45 minutes - 42.6 MBOn 14 February 2018 a lone gunman entered Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida and killed 17 people. In the days following, a group of students from the school built a campaign to change gun laws in America. Everyday students like Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg became household names as a social movement called March for Our Lives staged a national conversation around gun violence. This episode tells their story featuring teachers, students and parents who were there that day...
ICYMI - Standing Rock
June 28, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBOne of President Biden's first acts was to stop the Keystone Pipeline. It was a victory that arose out of a long battle. First Nations leaders from Standing Rock, in coalition with Indigneous leaders from around the world, initiated this campaign in 2016 to protect their land and water from destruction. But for hundreds of years before this, the Sioux Nations have defended their land and fought for sovereignty. This story features the voices of some of these leaders. The story was first relea...
ICYMI - Building Powerful Coalitions
June 14, 2021 23:51 - 47 minutes - 45 MBWhat does it take to build powerful coalitions between different groups with different interests and passions? The idea of working together sounds nice, but what makes a coalition work when the rubber hits the road. This is an episode of two very different but equally successful coalitions. The first talks to organisers in the coalition that delivered the BREXIT deal in the United Kingdom. The second tells the story of the grassroots leaders who build a coalition to stop gas fields being bui...
Jonathan Cox - Scale and Organising - ChangeMaker Chat
May 31, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBScale is a buzzword in social change circles, but what does it actually mean to scale social change? Community organiser and Deputy Director of Citizens UK Jonathan Cox unpacks the idea of scale. We discuss the importance of one-to-one relationships, organisation, and networks as resources that help social change ideas move from the small to the big and from place to place. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Danielle Celermajer - author of Summertime - ChangeMaker Chat
May 17, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBDany is a philosopher and writer whose latest book Summertime documents her experience inside the 2019 Bushfires. Today we talk about her journey and how she has learnt to speak about crisis. We discuss the power she has drawn from bearing witness. Dany identifies strategies for how change makers can walk with crisis, and harness the power of structural story-telling in how they make change. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
ICYMI - Protesting Putin’s Russia
May 03, 2021 13:00 - 49 minutes - 46.3 MBThis is an episode we recorded in 2017 in Moscow, telling the long story behind the broad-based resistance movements that have exploded across Russia in support of Alexis Navaley. These leaders have mixed feelings about Navaley as a figure, but the story shows that even in an authoritarian state - people will stand up for their needs - even when they face threat and intimidation. For more on ChangeMakers head to - changemakerspodcast.org You can find us on Twitter @changemakers99 and Facebo...
Tyson Yunkaporta - Indigenous thinking - ChangeMaker Chats
April 19, 2021 13:00 - 58 minutes - 55 MBTyson Yunkaporta belongs to Apalech clan of North Queensland. He wrote Sandtalk and is an iconoclast - helping us to see things differently in a modern world of crisis and chaos. Join us on a chat that explores a different understanding of power, change, and being. For more on ChangeMakers go to our website - https://changemakerspodcast.org/ Tyson's book Sandtalk is available here - https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/sand-talk The episode is supported by the Learning Change project...
Arnie Graf - Community Organiser - ChangeMaker Chats
April 05, 2021 13:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBDo you need a charismatic leader to make change in the world? Arnie Graf's life's work shows the answer is 'no.' He's spent 45 years working with people like you and me to build movements that collectively lead change. This episode talks about how he got there and what he learnt. He shares how he was trained by Saul Alinsky the grandfather of community organising, and he reflects on his book Lessons Learned. Find out more about ChangeMakers - https://changemakerspodcast.org/ Find us on Fac...
Myint Cho - Burmese pro-Democracy Activist - ChangeMaker Chat
March 22, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBFollowing the 2021 coup by the Burmese military, the Burmese community have built an extraordinary civil disobedience movement to call for the return of democracy. Today we speak to Myint Cho a long-time Burmese pro-democracy activist, active in the student movement in 1988, and then based at the Thai-Burma border for 12 years. He shares the long history of the struggle and explains what is happening today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sexual Assault - IWD ChangeMaker Special
March 07, 2021 13:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBThere is a sexual assault crisis in Australia right now. Today we have a special episode - a re-recorded speech that was delivered by host Amanda Tattersall to 500 year 9 and 10 female and male high school students at a public high school in Sydney's inner West Sydney for its International Women's Day Assembly. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jean Hinchliffe - Student Striker - ChangeMaker Chat
March 01, 2021 21:57 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBWhat does it take for a teenager to turn into a planet defender? Jean Hinchliffe is a climate campaigner and a new author of activist handbook Lead the Way. Today she talks about her activist journey and the lessons she has learnt about making powerful change. Find more about ChangeMakers on our website - https://changemakerspodcast.org/ where you can sign up to our email list for updates. Follow us on Facebook -https://m.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ Or Twitter @changemakers99 or ou...
Introducing ChangeMakers Season Five
February 21, 2021 21:55 - 3 minutes - 3.48 MBWe are back on 2 March. Here is a taster of what is coming. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Michelle Meagher - ChangeMaker Chat
November 30, 2020 13:00 - 45 minutes - 43.8 MBThe power of our largest corporations is all around, but what happens if a corporate foot soldier decides - "enough." Then uses her inside knowledge to teach people like you and me how to level the playing field? Michelle Meagher is a corporate lawyer and now whistleblower on the system ready to share lessons and insights about how to dramatically change market power. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Adam Barbanel-Fried - ChangeMaker Chat
November 23, 2020 13:00 - 42 minutes - 41.5 MBCan we use old social change strategies like one to one relationships to make electoral politics different? Adam Barbanel-Fried and his organisation Changing the Conversation Together did exactly this in the 2020 US Election. As a long time community organiser he used Deep Canvassing - door to door conversations that could help voters interpret the election through the eyes of those who they love. The strategy proved to be a powerful antidote to Trump's Presidency. Adam shares his journey tha...
Kabul Peace House
November 16, 2020 13:00 - 56 minutes - 54.3 MBDuring the 2000s, in the mountains of central Afghanistan, a remarkable but unlikely peace movement began. How did they even define peace in a place beset by war, and how did they organise themselves to work towards this audacious goal? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steve Killelea - ChangeMaker Chat
October 12, 2020 12:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBSteve Killelea is one of Australia's most successful businessman and a self-described peace maker! In this Chat we talk about why he combined these two passions. We explore how his peace work developed, from an idea hatched while working in Africa to creating the largest index for peace in the world! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mike Gecan - ChangeMaker Chat
September 21, 2020 13:00 - 51 minutes - 48.9 MBMike Gecan is a 45 year veteran organiser based in the United States. He is the former National Co-Director of the first, largest and oldest community organising network in the world - the Industrial Areas Foundation. He talks to us about what organising is, and what it is not. He shares stories about how he learnt about power, and explores some of the differences between social change traditions like mobilising and organising. He also gives us a fresh take on the upcoming Trump v Biden 2020 ...
Samuel Chu - ChangeMaker Chat
September 14, 2020 13:00 - 49 minutes - 47.4 MBSamuel Chu is a long time community organiser and the founder of the Hong Kong Democracy Council in the United States. In this Chat we explore how he has connected his identities as an organiser and a Hong Konger to create a radically different form of international solidarity in the US. His approach translated the energy of protest into politics, securing bipartisan support for multiple pieces of legislation in support of Hong Kong. We also consider how his work provides lessons for how we m...
Maurice Mitchell - ChangeMaker Chat
August 24, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBThe Movement for Black Lives is realigning political life in the US in 2020. Maurice Mitchell has been a leader in this movement since Ferguson. This conversation moves from his own traumatic experiences of racism that shaped his early life, to his work as an organiser and his reflections on the kinds of political strategy required to win justice. We zero in on the protests that exploded following the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020 and unpack the lesser known but vital strategies t...
Craig Reucassel - ChangeMaker Chat
August 17, 2020 01:00 - 43 minutes - 42.5 MBHave you been enjoying Fight for Planet A - the show all about climate change? Then come and hear our ChangeMaker Chat with host Craig Reucassel where we go behind the scenes to find out about his story, and explore what he is trying to achieve in doing the show. For more on ChangeMakers head to https://changemakerspodcast.org/. Follow us on Twitter @Changemakers99, or host Amanda Tattersall @amandatatts. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
Bushfires Part 2 - Renegade Aid in Batemans Bay
June 14, 2020 21:50 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBIn all of Australia, Batemans Bay and the South Coast was one of the worst affected. With devastation everywhere, formal government services and charities weren't able to cope. This is the story of the little known community initiative that saw the breach and stepped in to fill the gap.
Bushfires Part 1 - Black Ops Mosquitos
June 14, 2020 21:50 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MBIn the summer of 2019, Australia had the worst bushfires on record. Everyone knows the story of the official fires services. This is the story of the not-so-official fire fighting squad.
Organised Money - ChangeMakers Panel
June 01, 2020 13:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBOne of the hardest things to do when making change is raising money to support your work. Today we host a panel to discuss the art of organising money with Colleen Loper from Way to Win (US) and Stefan Baskerville from New Economics Foundation (UK). We discuss the different ways you can raise money and the pros and cons of these strategies. We explore why it is so hard to raise money, what makes it successful and how we can understand if not overcome some of these challenges.
Richard Fuller - ChangeMaker Chat
May 25, 2020 13:00 - 36 minutes - 34 MBWhat happens to the communities that suffer from toxic pollution? Too often nothing. But not if they partner with Pure Earth, the world's only global NGO working on toxics. Today we talk with its founder Richard Fuller - engineer turned toxics crusader who has helped lead an intervention that has cleaned up over 120 places. We find out how he got into it, and how Pure Earth works with communities to create lasting change.
Joan Garry - ChangeMaker Chat
May 18, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBSocial service organisations like food banks, charities, and nonprofits are being squeezed at both ends by the pandemic - their resource base has collapsed while they now have much greater demand for their services. Joan Garry talks us through these challenges based on her decades of experience as an advocate, nonprofit CEO and mentor to thousands of nonprofit leaders across North America. Find us at https://changemakerspodcast.org/
Margaret Klein Salamon - ChangeMaker Chat
May 11, 2020 13:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBWhat are the psychological features of the climate disaster? How does fear cause some people to step back, and others to step forward and make change. Margaret Klein Salamon is a psychoanalysts who has transitioned into a climate change warrior. Today she talks about her journey, and how we can understand emergency and fear to build a powerful movement for change.
This is a Big Moment
April 26, 2020 14:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBCOVID-19 has shaken the foundations of life as we know it. There is fear, but is there hope as well? This episode features three stories, about healthcare, mutual aid and green stimulus, that show people making something better out of this difficult time.
Owen Jones - ChangeMaker Chat
April 06, 2020 13:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBThis is the long story behind one of the United Kingdom's most high profile left wing figures. In this Chat we learn about Owen Jones's journey into political life, how extra-parliamentary activism shaped him, but also why the British Labour Party matters.
David Isaacs - ChangeMaker Chat
March 31, 2020 01:41 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MBWe are swirling in the midst of a pandemic surrounded by keyboard warriors claiming to know what is going on. This week we speak to one of Australia's leading infectious disease doctors - Professor David Isaacs - to get a briefing about everything COVID-19, where it came from, what makes it a pandemic, and how to stay safe.
Prof. Isaacs - COVID - ChangeMaker Chat
March 31, 2020 01:41 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MBWe are swirling in the midst of a pandemic surrounded by keyboard warriors claiming to know what is going on. This week we speak to one of Australia's leading infectious disease doctors - Professor David Isaacs - to get a briefing about everything COVID-19, where it came from, what makes it a pandemic, and how to stay safe.
Bonnie Honig - ChangeMaker Chat
March 23, 2020 12:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBBonnie Honig is one of the world’s top democratic theorists and is based at Brown University. A scholar and commentator in the United States, Bonnie is the author of numerous books, including Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair, published in 2017. She runs us through her approach to democracy and critical thinking, showing us how it can help us interpret and respond to the crises and shocks that we are experiencing now.
Randi Weingarten - ChangeMaker Chat
March 16, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes - 29.1 MBRandi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers gives us the lowdown on what she’s learned about changemaking after more than 25 years at the chalkface of teacher’s unionism in the United States.
Andres Bernal - ChangeMaker Chat
March 02, 2020 13:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBCurious about the remarkable rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and policies like the Green New Deal? We talk to Andres Bernal about both.
Power of March for Our Lives Pt. 3 - Identity Matters
February 25, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBIn the US, gun violence affects black communities far more than any other. How did the March for Our Lives movement work with these communities? What do powerful intersectional movements look like?
March for Our Lives - Iden
February 25, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBIn the US, gun violence affects black communities far more than any other. How did the March for Our Lives movement work with these communities? What do powerful intersectional movements look like?
Power of March for Our Lives Pt. 2 - Art and Politics
February 12, 2020 13:00 - 38 minutes - 36.2 MBIn the wake of the school shooting in Parkland people began using art as a means to express their grief and to connect their plea for gun reform to others. How did this art reach people in ways that moved beyond just words?
Power of March for Our Lives Pt. 1 - Who Speaks
February 12, 2020 13:00 - 45 minutes - 42.7 MBOn 14 February 2018, 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida. That same day, student survivors began to build a movement against senseless gun violence and lax gun laws. This is the first episode in a multi-part series that shares how they organised for change. This episode looks at how important their voices were in breaking through the sense of despair in America’s gun debate.
Robyn Steward - ChangeMaker Chat
February 02, 2020 21:51 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBToday’s chat is with autism advocate Robyn Steward. We learn about her journey as an autistic woman, and about the power of building understanding between the neurotypical and neurodivergent people. For anyone wanting to understand the world of autism better - this one is for you!
Paul Oosting, GetUp - ChangeMaker Chat
November 26, 2019 13:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBGetUp is one of Australia's most impactful and influential community organisations, and Paul Oosting is their national director. We discuss what GetUp learnt from the 2019 Federal Election campaign. We find out Paul's insights about what it's like to operate under the pressure of media and political attack.
Bushfire Survivor Fiona Lee - ChangeMaker Chat
November 17, 2019 13:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBWhen the 2019 Bushfires burnt her house, Fiona Lee did what most would find hard - she became an advocate for climate change. Three days after her house burnt down, Fiona and her family stood at NSW Parliament House calling for serious action on climate change as creating the context for these catastrophic fires. What is her story? How did she do this? And what did she learn about the power of her own voice in this moment. This episode was recorded the day after she spoke at Parliament House.