Commons Conversations Podcast

By: Commons Library
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  • The Commons Conversations Podcast


    The Commons Conversations Podcast is hosted by the Commons Social Change Library. The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in activism, advocacy and justice.


    Listen to our podcast where campaigners and changemakers share their experiences and insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more. The podcast started in 2023 and is also broadcasted on 3CR Radical Radio, a community radio station in Australia.


    You can find transcripts and more information about each episode and interviewees here.


    About the Commons Library


    Visit commonslibrary.org - a hub for social change resources.


    The Commons Social Change Library exists to make activism smarter and stronger. We gather the collective wisdom of people engaged in social change in one accessible online place. All of our materials are free, digital, and directly available.


    The Commons Library includes educational resources on campaign strategy, community organising, digital campaigning, communications and media, working effectively in groups, fundraising, diversity and inclusion and much more. We have over 1000 resources available in a range of formats and languages including videos, podcasts, manuals, case studies, articles, practical how-to guides, and training materials.


    The Commons Library is Australian based with a world wide reach. We have over 10 000 visitors a week.


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    Are you interested in being interviewed? Do you know of someone you would like to hear interviewed? Have any other questions, comments or feedback. We would love to hear from you! Contact us via our online form.


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Episodes
  • Insights into Environmental Justice Movements in India with Radhika Jhaveri

    Insights into Environmental Justice Movements in India with Radhika Jhaveri
    Feb 6 2024
    In this episode environmental justice activist Radhika Jhaveri is interviewed by Kenzie (Mackenzie) Harris, the principal coordinator for the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN). Radhika is the the GGSN coordinator for India, a member of the youth based collective "Let India Breathe", and the founder of Pantrynook- a zerowaste (plastic free) food packaging company. In the interview she discusses how the campaign to protect Aarey, a forest within the suburbs of Mumbai, brought together a coalition of urban and Indigenous communities from the mid to late 2010s. In doing so she describes how this gave rise to new ways of campaigning in India, as well as how it revealed the advantages and pitfalls involved with broad coalitions. Amongst other topics the interview also explores the importance of long term visions within social change work and ways in which current campaigns supporting Palestine are providing a lead for global solidarity more generally.

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    45 mins
  • AI, Technology and Social Transformation with Ned Howey

    AI, Technology and Social Transformation with Ned Howey
    Jan 28 2024
    Aoife Carli-Hannan, engagement officer with the Commons Library, chats with Ned Howey, the co-founder of Tectonica, a movement building agency whose stated mission is “to create a seismic shift in the way politics are done, through innovations that empower social, economic, and environmental justice movements.” Alongside directly helping organizations, political parties, and unions with an array of strategic, creative and technological services the agency also created and facilitates the Tectonica Organising Network (TON). In this conversation Aoife and Ned focus on the democratic dilemmas, opportunities and challenges associated with new generative AI technologies. They discuss the potential of these tools to deepen existing biases and power imbalances but also the possibilities they create for fostering practices that can connect people to social change movements and transform our societies for the better.

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    55 mins
  • Citizen Science and Big Tree Hunting with Alice Hardinge

    Citizen Science and Big Tree Hunting with Alice Hardinge
    Jan 16 2024
    This episode features a conversation between Emily Wood Trounce and Alice Hardinge, the acting Tasmanian campaign manager for the Wilderness Society. In it they explore the practice and value of citizen science and big tree hunting in locating and identifying threatened species. They discuss how this results in a number of valuable outcomes, including allowing conservationists to enforce existing rules regarding clearfelling while also supporting campaigns to fully end the logging of old growth forests. 

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    50 mins

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