📚 Book Discussion: Changemakers – Radical Strategies for Social Movement Organising By Jane Holgate & John Page
About Changemakers – Radical Strategies for Social Movement Organising:
Crafted for those who dare to challenge the status quo, this is a radical guide for activists.
Drawing from frontline experiences in trade unions, environmentalism, animal rights, and social justice movements, the book explores essential themes from leadership to the art of negotiation. It asks crucial questions about organising and social movements in the 21st century.
Avoiding easy prescriptions, the authors uniquely guide readers to where theory meets practice.
Written by two experts in activist education and community organising, this is a refreshing take on movement building, empowering changemakers of today to forge new paths towards a more just world.
Whether you're an experienced organiser, new to activism, or simply curious about how movements are built and sustained, this event is an open space to share, learn, and be inspired.
About Commonweal:
Commonweal is a unique collection of over 14,000 books, pamphlets and journals on social change and activism, peace and disarmament, climate crisis & the green movement, nonviolent philosophy and practice, human rights, anti-racism and identity. The Collection is based at the JB Priestley Library, University of Bradford BD7 1DP and is open to the public.
About Race Equality Network:
REN are an infrastructure organisation and an anti-racist charity working with diverse communities in Bradford and beyond.
Let’s come together to ask: How do we organise for real change today?
