ChangeMakers
Iconoclast Network
The ChangeMakers Podcast tells stories of people changing the world.We produce ChangeMaker Chats with people who share why and how they make change, and we also do documentary style episodes about change making campaigns. W known change makers like the 2019 Hong Kong Protesters, Standing Rock activists, climate campaigners like Bill Mckibben and Australian of the Year Grace Tame, as well aschange makers, all of whom have stories and lessons to share.Tune to our episodes that release every fortnight on a Tuesday to be inspired about what is possible, and learn from the insights, successes and failures of others! We bege so with over 120 episodes there is plenty to be inspired by in our back catalogue about how we can change the world. You can find out more about our episodes, join our email discover more change making content at https://changemakerspodcast.org/.Our host Amanda Tattersall is an Australian ChangeMaker, co-founding GetUp, founding community organising in Australia with the Sydney Alliance, and now is a action-reseAssociate Professor at the Universitv of Svdnev.ChangeMakers is sponsored by the Sydney Policy Lab at the University of Sydney. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 11, 2022 • 22min
The Art of Politics: reflections on the Australian Labor Party, Refugees and Climate Change
Examining the tough relationships between mainstream progressive parties and movements in Australia, host Amanda Tattersall looks back at her own experience. She tells the story of the 2001-2004 refugee movement's attempt to shift the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and examines what worked, and what was learnt. Lessons are drawn for the climate movement today. This piece was also published by Fabian Review in February 2022.You can find the original article online at Australian Fabian Review here.For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatattsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 6, 2022 • 2min
ChangeMakers Series 6 is on its way
Need a dose of inspiration - we have plenty of stories and interviews ready for you in 2022.Ready for release once a fortnight on TuesdaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 10, 2022 • 42min
Name Stopping the Twitter Trolls
Four years ago on Invasion Day 2018 Tarneen Onus-Williams was relentlessly and violently trolled on Twitter for a speech she gave at a protest. Social media abuse tries to shut people down. It is frighteningly common for women, for Indigenous women and women of colour. This is the story of how Amnesty crowdsourced thousands of volunteers to patrol Twitter and see if they could stop it. For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 3, 2022 • 1h 8min
The long story of the Hong Kong Protests
The Hong Kong 2019 protests were some of the largest protests ever seen in the world, and they didn't come from nowhere. This episode explains some of the history behind the social movements in Hong Kong - from Tiananmen Square to local democracy struggles - Hong Kongers have long used and developed powerful protest strategies. For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 27, 2021 • 49min
Addiction, drugs and the quest for Fair Treatment
The war on drugs has been a failed battle for decades. But what could we be doing differently? And what is a church doing running a facility where illegal drugs can be used openly? And why?For more on the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre go here. For more on the Fair Treatment campaign go here. For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 20, 2021 • 27min
Christmas Spirit = Compassion for Refugees
No matter what your beliefs, the moral of the Bethlehem story is that when people are in need they need compassion. While Australia's refugee policies have infrequently followed this, Australian people have. This is the story of Baby Asha - an injured baby who was medivaced to a hospital in Brisbane and the community of people who rose up to keep that child in a space of safety away from a desert prison on the Pacific Island of Nauru. For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 6, 2021 • 44min
Scaling Change - Amanda Tattersall on making change big and small
How can we hold together big ambition for social change on issues like climate alongside the small work required to build powerful connections across our diversity and difference? This piece explores the tensions of scale between big and small, fast and slow through stories and reflections across a life of organising.Our host Amanda Tattersall reads a memoir that she wrote for the Griffith Review in their August edition entitled Hey Utopia.You can find the Griffith Review here: https://www.griffithreview.com/editions/hey-utopia/.For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.orgOn Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatattsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 22, 2021 • 46min
The Best Climate Campaign You've Never Heard Of
Could there be a single lever in the global marketplace that could transform the stakes for climate change? What about the insurance industry. Over the past 5 years insurance has been turned upside down by a nimble network of climate campaigners that have set new rules to end insurance for fossil fuel projects. This is the story of the Sunrise Project, the Insure our Future coalition, and the global and Australian distributed networks that have turned the world of insurance around. For more on ChangeMakers check us out: via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 1, 2021 • 48min
Climate Justice, Coalitions and Glasgow
If Glasgow tells us anything - the people of the world will need to keep coming together if the politicians of the world are to ever stop climate change. But that begs the question - what does it take for people to come together powerfully? Especially people who are really different.Building unusual alliances is both an art and a science and those who have succeeded and failed before have a lot to teach us today. This is a special episode from our archive, recorded in 2017, featuring two very different coalitions. Together they share a series of important lessons about building alliances. We love coalition building at ChangeMakers - our host Amanda Tattersall wrote the go to book ‘Power in Coalition' and these stories bring many of these ideas to life.For more on ChangeMakers visit our website - https://changemakerspodcast.org/ Find us on Twitter @changemakers99 or @amandatattsOr on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/changemakerspodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 18, 2021 • 42min
ChangeMaker Chat - Meena Palaniappan - Digital ChangeMaking
Across her career, Meena has led large-scale technological changemaking networks in the Global South. She has developed the resources that have allowed communities to work with each other to respond to crisis and disaster - from floods to Covid. In this episode we learn from how she has created scaled change, focused on listening, valuing people, working with communities, and providing spaces for neighbours to help neighbours. For more on ChangeMakers Podcast - check us out at https://changemakerspodcast.org/, or on Twitter at @changemakers99 or @amandatatts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
