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Rathana Chea - ChangeMaker Chat - Diversity and Climate
ChangeMakers - July 01, 2024 09:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThere is a lot of talk about the need for diversity, but what does diversity actually mean? In this conversation Rathana Chea shares how he has learnt how to value the power of difference and connection across his time in making social change, sharing insights from social movements while he wa...
UK Election Special - ChangeMaker Chat - participation and elections
ChangeMakers - June 18, 2024 23:06 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn this special UK national election episode we are joined by Marc Stears from UCL Policy Lab and Martha MacKenzie from Civic Power to talk about the 2025 national election from the perspective of participatory and everyday politics. Civic Power Fund and the UCL Policy Lab are sponsors of this ...
Tina Rothery - ChangeMaker Chat - Nanas against Fracking
ChangeMakers - June 03, 2024 10:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe UK’s Nana’s against Fracking are a grassroots movement that spread across regional UK communities to stop gas fracking. The movement was led by a legion of women who had never, or only at a distance, been involved in making change, but felt compelled to act when they found out about the cata...
Samuel Chu - ChangeMaker Chat - Anti-Authoritarianism
ChangeMakers - May 20, 2024 23:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHow on earth can any of us challenge might of authoritarian government? Samuel Chu has been contesting government over-reach and human rights abuses in China, Russia, Belarus and more - and as a US citizen and community organiser has a refreshing take on how we can all contribute to a movement a...
Love and Power - ChangeMaker Chat - Ending Violence against Women
ChangeMakers - May 06, 2024 07:39 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhile we know that too many women live with the ever-present threat of violence our societies seem to struggle with what to do about it. While we have refuges services, and at times the issue is raised in national debate, we seem unable to address the problem at its core. In the UK, Love and Po...
Andrew Denton - ChangeMaker Chats - Laugh till you die
ChangeMakers - April 22, 2024 10:20 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIf you are in Australia you probably know of Andrew Denton the comedian, but did you know he is also a highly successful changemaker? In this chat Andrew shares his journey of a life that began in comedy, then ventured into long form interviews with the popular television show “Enough Rope”, t...
Mona Bani - ChangeMaker Chat
ChangeMakers - April 08, 2024 10:07 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMona grew up as a child of refugees fleeing political persecution. Now as an adult in the UK, she has created a new kind of organisation - Revoke - to support people seeking refuge and asylum that builds on her own experience. In this episode of ChangeMakers she tells us about her journey, abou...
Anand Giridharadas - ChangeMaker Chat - Persuaders
ChangeMakers - March 25, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhat are some of the skills or insights shared by some of America’s extraordinary change makers, people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alicia Garza or Loretta Ross? In particular, what can these people teach us about how to build larger movements for change? Anand Giridhardhas, author of Persua...
Nick Kimber - ChangeMaker Chat - Relationship-based bureacrat
ChangeMakers - March 11, 2024 09:34 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhat would it mean if we had local authorities and councils that saw their mission as building relationships with the communities they serve? This week we talk with Nick Kimber, the Director of Strategy and Design at the London Borough of Camden. He has helped create a council that builds relati...
Anat Shenker-Osorio - ChangeMakers Chat - Art of Communication
ChangeMakers - February 26, 2024 19:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsToday we talk with one of the world's leading communication specialists for progressive change. Anat Shenker-Osorio has spend decades working with communities, movements and progressive political candidates across the world helping them to sharpen and improve how they communicate their ideas. An...
Kim Loo - ChangeMaker Chat - Doctors and climate change
ChangeMakers - February 13, 2024 07:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIf climate change affects everything - then what do we do to reimagine how we work, live and care for each other? This episode is with Dr Kim Loo - a leading Australian community climate activist and local Sydney-based General Practitioner, who has connected her role as a community doctor and he...
Brooklyn 99 - ChangeMakers #ICYMI - Using a Platform for Change
ChangeMakers - December 19, 2023 05:16 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAs a tribute to the magnificent Andre Braugher and his alter ego Captain Holt - we are re-releasing this episode with Brooklyn 99 writers and cast recorded back in 2018. What can we learn when a Hollywood TV show gets into ChangeMaking? Comedy show Brooklyn 99 took on police racism. How did the...
Brooklyn 99 - ChangeMakes #ICYMI - Using a Platform for Change
ChangeMakers - December 19, 2023 05:16 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAs a tribute to the magnificent Andre Braugher and his alter ego Captain Holt - we are re-releasing this episode with Brooklyn 99 writers and cast recorded back in 2018. What can we learn when a Hollywood TV show gets into ChangeMaking? Comedy show Brooklyn 99 took on police racism. How did the...
Adam Barbanel-Fried - #ICYMI Deep Canvassing
ChangeMakers - December 04, 2023 21:47 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn our last episode for 2023 we bring you an episode from 2021 - recorded in the weeks after the Presidential Election - that explores Deep Canvassing. Deep Canvassing uses the story telling and listening techniques of community organising to talk to voters about how they might vote in an electi...
Anhaar Kareem - ChangeMaker Chat - Give young people the vote
ChangeMakers - November 20, 2023 22:21 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsToday we talk with Anhaar Kareem - a 16 year old Australian woman who is part of the Make it 16 campaign seeking to give young people the vote. She shares her journey into making change - and the influences of he family and the place where she lives. She shares where the campaign came from, why ...
Emmanuel Gotora - ChangeMaker Chat - Organising and TELCO
ChangeMakers - November 06, 2023 22:45 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBroad based organising in the United Kingdom has a long history - starting with the pioneering work of "TELCO" (The East London Citizens Organisation). In this chat, Emmanuel Gotora - Lead Organiser at TELCO and Assistant Director at Citizens UK shares that story while also sharing his story of ...
Jane McAlevey - ChangeMaker Chat - Union Organiser Extraordinaire #ICYMI
ChangeMakers - October 23, 2023 23:17 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThey say "don't meet your heroes" but thankfully that isn't always true. Jane McAlevey is one of those people who would call "bullshit" on people calling her a hero - but I'm an Australian - so I say bullshit back. Jane is a fighter - and this conversation with her recorded in 2021 demonstrates...
Chanel Contos - ChangeMaker Chat - Consent
ChangeMakers - October 09, 2023 12:04 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsChanel Contos joins us on ChangeMakers to discuss her new book Consent Laid Bare and the challenge of how to end rape culture. She shares the journey she took to helping Australia learn about the culture of rape and sexual assault that continues to exist amongst teenagers and how we might go abo...
Gloria Tabi - ChangeMaker Chat - Racial Equity
ChangeMakers - September 25, 2023 11:38 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsLet's talk about race. In this chat Gloria Tabi shares her experiences of racism at work in Australia and how she has come to lead change in the workplace around racial exclusion and discrimination. This is a powerful conversation about the brutality of exclusion and about the challenging strat...
Gloria Tabi - ChangeMaker Chat - Racial Equity
ChangeMakers - September 25, 2023 11:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsLet's talk about race. In this chat Gloria Tabi shares her experiences of racism at work in Australia and how she has come to lead change in the workplace around racial exclusion and discrimination. This is a powerful conversation about the brutality of exclusion and about the challenging strat...
Nikita Simpson - ChangeMaker Chat - Anthropologist
ChangeMakers - September 11, 2023 20:25 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHow do anthropologists use curiosity to see and support people to make change in the world? And what is an anthropologist anyway? In this conversation we talk with Nikita Simpson about how she came to work as an anthropologist, having worked up a curiosity about the similarities and differences...
Peter Shergold - ChangeMaker Chat - Public Service #ICYMI
ChangeMakers - August 28, 2023 18:05 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn this episode from 2021, we look at the power of public servants and how they make change with one of Australia's most senior former public servants - Peter Shergold. In what ways are public servants ChangeMakers, and how can advocacy groups build more powerful relationships with them? This c...
Elise Ganley - ChangeMaker Chat - Climate Transition
ChangeMakers - August 14, 2023 21:40 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhat would it take for communities reliant on fossil fuels to be leaders in the climate transition? In this chat Elise Ganley, the National Lead Organiser for the Real Deal for Australia project explores how communities like Gladstone and Geelong are leading the way in designing policies that cr...
Jacinta Dietrich - ChangeMaker Chat - Differently Brained
ChangeMakers - July 31, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe are all different - but some of these differences are hard to see. That includes differences based on our neurodiversity or our mental health. This conversation is with Jacinta Dietrich the co-host of the Differently Brained podcast. She is autistic and has lived with the challenges of mental...
Nina Hall - ChangeMaker Chat - Digital Advocacy
ChangeMakers - July 17, 2023 14:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIf you are in Australia you might have heard of GetUp, or if you are in the United States you probably know about MoveOn - but you might not be aware that these kinds of digital advocacy movements operate in 20 countries around the world. These groups are linked through a global network called O...
Martha McKenzie - ChangeMaker Chat - Organising Money for ChangeMaking
ChangeMakers - July 03, 2023 14:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMaking change is be invaluable, but without resources it is hard to do. This episode digs into the question of how to raise money to make changemaking happen. We talk with Martha McKenzie the Executive Director of the Civic Power Fund in the United Kingdom. The Civic Power Fund is dedicated to r...
Nick Haines - ChangeMaker Chat - Voices for Indi #ICYMI
ChangeMakers - June 19, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIt’s been one year since the Australian Federal Election that swooped an unprecedented number of community independents into the House of Representatives, and it’s been 10 years since that “Voices for” movement started. In celebration of Voices for Indi, we are sharing this Chat with Nick Haines...
Max Chandler-Mathew - ChangeMaker Chat - Organising in Elections
ChangeMakers - June 05, 2023 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn the 2022 Australian Federal Election the Greens won an unprecedented number of seats in Queensland - producing what came to be known as the “Green Wave.” Max Chandler-Mather was at the centre of that movement - and is now the current Member for Griffith. In this conversation he shares how the...
Thomas Mayo - ChangeMaker Chat - Voice to Parliament
ChangeMakers - May 23, 2023 21:55 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAustralia is in the middle of a national conversation that could transform our relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. But how much do you know about the long story that sits behind the Voice to Parliament referendum? Thomas Mayo is a Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal, ...
Bill McKibben - ChangeMaker Chat - Climate Agitator #ICYMI
ChangeMakers - May 08, 2023 22:39 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsFew people have been as effective at agitating for a stronger climate and environment movement as Bill McKibben. He has consistently pushed new strategies and thinking in the battle to save our natural environment and our climate. In celebration of his agitator spirit, we are re-sharing this #...
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