We are excited to announce, by special arrangement, a webinar featuring global community organising expert Marshall Ganz from Harvard University discussing his upcoming book, ‘People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal’. Marshall will be in conversation with Wil Stracke, Assistant Secretary, Victorian Trades Hall Council. This is a rare opportunity to hear from Marshall Ganz at an Australian friendly time, and to hear about his book before it is published.
This event is a partnership between the Australian Fabians and Australian Progress. Our upcoming Leadership, Organising and Action Workshop is adapted from a program designed by Marshall Ganz for grassroots organising and leadership.
ABOUT PEOPLE, POWER, CHANGE: Organizing for Democratic Renewal
At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting change.
Marshall Ganz is one of the world's leading authorities on democratic organizing, and this book is the culmination of his decades of teaching, research, and work. In People, Power, Change, Ganz distills for students, practitioners, and activists the principles he has gleaned over the last half-century of creating collective action.
Ganz explores the forces, craft, and learned skill of organizing and provides an actionable framework for how to actually do it. He focuses the book on the creation and substance of relationships, the fuel of values and narrative, the resources and power of strategy, the necessity of structure, and the accountability of action. Across these five organizing ideas, Ganz weaves in his personal experiences from a lifetime of organizing in iconic social movements and campaigns to illustrate how collective action actually works and to build the practices and skills that must be developed to do it with intention and with success.
DATE AND TIMES
The webinar will take place on Wednesday, 31 July:
10:30AM AEST (VIC, NSW, ACT, QLD, TAS)
10:00AM ACST (SA, NT)
8:30AM AWST (WA)
12:30PM NZST (NZ)
ACCESS INFORMATION
If you have specific access needs for the webinar, please contact the Australian Fabians team at secretary@fabian.org.au.