ChangeMakers

What 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 Persuaders, talks us through what he discovered when he interviewed these and other American change makers. In this chat Anand shares the story behind why he came to write this book - about his own story as a bridge builder between cultures and the lessons he learnt about how people navigate change.The chat then turns to his book Persuaders - identifying lessons about how persuaders communicate, how they work across difference, and how important it is for movements to be able to think about the kind of implications that change making has on communities while they are prosecuting change with communities.This chat is all about Persuaders, but Anand has written four powerful books: India Calling, True American, Winners Take All and Persuaders. You can find out more about Anand here - https://www.anand.ly/.ChangeMakers 2024 is supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. This year they are supporting ChangeMakers to bring together a collection of Chats filled with extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/ucl-policy-lab and www.civicpower.org.uk/.For more on ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatattsOn LInkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What 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 relationships with the community it serves in everything that it does, from child protection to garbage collection.He shares with us how he came to believe in the power of relationships in local authorities, and what it means for councils to serve a mission of place making. For all those people who used to laugh at Yes Minister, this episode is a powerful salve, sharing how public servants can be powerful change makers and be a source for generating ordinary hope.This episode is the first in our 2024 UK special, sponsored by the Civic Power Fund and the UCL Policy Lab. They bring together extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world. To find out more about the amazing work undertaken by the London Borough of Camden, check out this speech by Camden Councillor Georgia, Leader of the Council and Chair of London Councils. For more about ChangeMakers check us out:Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook, Instagram, Threads - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatattsOn LInkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anat Shenker-Osorio, a communication specialist, shares insights on impactful campaign strategies and the power of language in driving change. She discusses the influence of early childhood experiences on social justice advocacy and the importance of crafting effective communication strategies through linguistics and social science. The podcast explores navigating political ideologies, the power of polarization in activism, and progressive communication in global movements.

If 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 her passion for the natural world to make sure she is building a healthy community for us all. Here she talks about how growing up in multicultural South Western Sydney taught her about the power of community but also the impact of pollution on our health. As a doctor she has sought to create care that is not just about patients as individuals, but for healthy communities and healthy societies. She shares her understanding of the role of experts and the role of place in making change, and reminds us of the power of relationships. Kim talks about her membership of Doctors for the Environment, and you can find out more about them here: https://dea.org.au/.  For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook, Instagram, Threads -https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On X/Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatattsOn LInkedIn - Amanda.Tattersall ChangeMakers UK episodes are supported by the Civic Power Fund and work with the UCL Policy Lab. They bring together extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to understand how we can change the world, Check them out at ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab and civicpower.org.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As 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 they do it in a way that people didn’t turn off?We interviewed Terry Crews, Dan Good (Series Creator) and the writer of their #BlackLivesMatter episode Moo Moo Phil Jackson to find out about the politics behind the show. Listen in for the moment when Dan Goor does a magnificent Captain Holt.Vale Andre Braughter.We are on summer break and will return at the end of 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.