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Our speakers recommend:
Websites
- Surfers Against Sewage
- The official surfers against sewage website
- Trapese
- ‘Taking Radical Action through Popular Education and Sustainable Everything!’ Trapese is a Popular Education Collective
- Autonomous Geographies
- Two year action research project run jointly by geographers at the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester
- Seeds for change
- Non-profit coop providing training and resources to grassroots campaigners, NGOs, Co-ops and other community groups and organisations in the social sector
- UK Social Centres Network
- A portal to radical social centres and autonomous spaces around the UK
- Indymedia UK
- A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues
- Corporate Watch
- Critical research into corporations and support for groups challenging the corporate take over
- Monbiot
- George Monbiot’s blogspot
Books
- How to Win Campaigns: 100 Steps to Success
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Description: This book explores what works in campaigning – a practical how-to guide
ISBN: 1853839620 - People Power: In depth guide to local ‘grass-roots’ campaigning: How to Run a Campaign and Make a Difference in Your Community
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Description: All you need to know about local campaigning and how to make a difference to your community
ISBN: 1905261594 - A Smile In The Mind
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Description: Exploring witty thinking and playful graphic design.
ISBN: 0-7148-3812-8 - Do or Die! Voices from the Ecological Resistance
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Description: A collection of inspiring, empowering and important stories from everything from the anti roads movement through reclaim the streets to pixie actions and monkey wrenching
ISBN: N/A - Pressure Groups, Politics and Democracy in Britain
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Description: Political studies on pressure groups, their influence within the UK and EU, their effectiveness and their position within democracy
ISBN: 0860037150 - Anarchism and Other Essays
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Description: A collection of essays spanning the psychology of political violence, women’s emancipation and what anarchism really stands for
ISBN: 1599869896 - Storming the Millennium: The New Politics of Change
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Description: This is the first book to bring together a range of activists of journalists recognising the importance of new politics
ISBN: 0853158738 - Hope in the Dark, Untold Stories
- Author:
Description: Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past five decades
ISBN: 1560255773 - Do It Yourself: A Handbook for Changing our World
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Description: Covers everything from setting up a community garden to taking direct action, alternative media to why we are what we eat
ISBN: 978-0-7453-2637-5
Organisations
- Greenpeace
- Greenpeace stands for positive change through action. We defend the natural world and promote peace.
- Stop Heathrow Expansion
- A website to campaign about the Heathrow Airport Expansion
- Social Centre Network
- Provides a portal to radical social centres and autonomous spaces around the UK
- No Borders Network
- Freedom of movement and equal rights for all
- The John Muir Trust
- UK charity dedicated to the protection of wild land for both nature and people