ChangeMakers

In 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 election. It has been shown to be radically effective at engaging and persuading people. It is a very different form of electoral engagement to the typical transactional or rapid pace sales pitch usually associated with electoral campaigning.This is a very important conversation given that 2024 is the year of the UK and US elections, and in places like Australia there are serious reflections about what did not work in the Voice referendum.We will see you all again in late January 2024.For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website – https://changemakerspodcast.org; on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ and on X/Twitter – @changemakers99 or @amandatatts

Today 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 young people feel like they need the vote more than ever, and some of the battles she and others have faced in talking with political leaders about why 16 and 17 year olds should have a political voice.For more on Make it 16 you can check them out on Instagram, Tiktok, LinkedIn, X. Or their website: https://www.makeit16.au/.For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org; on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ and on X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts

Broad 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 his journey into organising. This is an episode about the slow but powerful journey of leadership development, and the power that can come when communities join together to fight for their needs.We are delighted to join Citizens UK and TELCO in celebrating 25 years of community organising in the UK (and indeed, because of Covid - we are really celebrating 27 years!). Emmanuel's story and the story of TELCO provide a rich picture to the power of community organising. This is an important story for showing how community organising has traveled and changed, from its origins in Chicago in the 1930s in the work of Saul Alinsky - to different places, with different forms across the world.For more on TELCO and Citizens UK - https://www.citizensuk.org/chapters/east-london/For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook, Instagram and Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts

They 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 that. Jane has taught us many of the rules about how to fight and how to win. Jane is not well (see this piece in the New Yorker) - but she is still fighting. Not just for her health but for the welfare and rights of workers across the US and beyond.We - I - wanted to celebrate all she has done and the lessons she has offered. She has influenced how I think, how I organise and more importantly - her guidance has gifted the world clear lessons in union organising that are working to improve lives all over the place.Jane has a new book out - Rules to Win (more information is HERE). Irrespective of whether you have not heard of her or if you know her well - take a listen and go read that book. Let her spiky wisdom ring in your ears.- Amanda TattersallPhoto credit - Alice Attie.Jane's website with information on all her work is here - https://janemcalevey.com/For more on ChangeMakers - check us out at https://changemakerspodcast.org/, or Twitter at @changemakers99 or @amandatatts.

Chanel 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 about ending it. Today we talk about the problem and strategies to bring down the pillars that hold up a collective culture than decriminatlises rape. To get a copy of Chanel's book - Consent Laid Bare - you can find out more here.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts

Let'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 strategies required to understand and change racism in the workplace.Gloria's organisation - Everyday Inclusion - works on these issues - https://www.everydayinclusion.com.au/about. Her books and materials about race and exclusion can be found there.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook & Instagram - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts

Let'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 strategies required to understand and change racism in the workplace.Gloria's organisation - EVERYDAY INCLUSION - works on these issues - https://www.everydayinclusion.com.au/about. Her books and materials about race and exclusion can be found there.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts

In 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 chat is with one of Australia’s most senior former public servants – Peter Shergold – who was a senior official in both the Hawke Labor Government and the Howard conservative Liberal Government. He shares stories about what it is like to work in the public service, and the challenges and limitations that it brings. He gives us an insight into what public servants are doing right now as they prepare to support a new Federal Government in Australia, on the issue of climate change.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website – https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On Twitter – @changemakers99 or @amandatatts