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Organizer speaksPodcast O Assunto: Renata Lo Prete entrevista o pré-candidato à presidência André Janones l g1
A long interview (about 88 minutes) by Renata Lo Prete with Janones while he was still a presidential pre-candidate, weeks before he withdrew to back Lula. Useful for understanding his background, his message and how he reads working-class voters before he became the campaign's digital strategist.
Organizer speaks20 dias para salvar a democracia - com André Janones
A livestreamed conversation between writer Tati Bernardi and Janones in the final stretch of a presidential campaign, focused on digital mobilization for the last 20 days before the vote. Gives a sense of the tone and the logic of urgency Janones uses to mobilize supporters.
Organizer speaksENTREVISTA COM ANDRÉ JANONES - ICL NOTÍCIAS 2 - 12/MAIO ÀS 18H
An interview with Janones on ICL Notícias, hosted by Eduardo Moreira, one of the main progressive YouTube channels in Brazil. Of interest for how Janones explains the battle on social media to a left-wing audience that is already mobilized.
Organizer speaksJanones: 'Já empatamos o jogo nas redes e Lula será reeleito' | Entrevista
A CartaCapital interview in which Janones takes stock of the digital battle in Lula's re-election campaign and argues that the left has already drawn level with the right on social media. A good starting point for hearing, in his own words, how he assesses the online balance of forces in 2026.
Janones e Marçal lideram campanhas por Lula e Flávio com a mesma fórmula: As ‘ondas de engajamento’
A UOL analysis comparing the method of Janones, on Lula's side, with that of Pablo Marçal, on Flávio Bolsonaro's side, and identifying a shared formula built on successive waves of supporter engagement. Useful for separating mobilization technique from ideological orientation.
Janones está mudando rumo da campanha com 'Exército de Lula', avalia diretor da Quaest
Guilherme Russo, head of intelligence at Quaest, discusses second-round polling data on UOL News and attributes part of the campaign's shift in direction to the Exército do Lula WhatsApp channel. A rare look by a pollster at the electoral effect of a digital mobilization operation.
Recommended or cited by Diario de Pernambuco: Diretor da Quaest diz que Janones mudou rumo da campanha com Exército do Lula
Lula’s Whatsapp Army
A short AJ+ piece on the network of Lula supporters organized through WhatsApp in Brazil. Useful as a case of mobilization on messaging apps, though it is journalism and not training.
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Organizer speaksRethinking Politics: Student Protests in Serbia // Annual Focus: Transitions
A panel in Vienna with student activists from Belgrade and Novi Sad, including a journalist from Blokada INFO, on how grassroots activism works without centralized leadership and which organizational strategies sustained the movement. A first-hand account, useful for understanding how the plenums worked from the inside.
CREES Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Student-Led Direct Democracy in Serbia’s Hybrid Regime
Gazela Pudar Draško (IFDT, University of Belgrade) draws on in-depth interviews to analyze how the student plenums worked as a pragmatic, decentralized tool for getting around the regime's repression and media dominance. She also discusses the limits of scaling direct democracy and the lessons for people mobilizing under authoritarian conditions.
Recommended or cited by Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade
RC47 Webinar - Sociological Perspectives on the 2024/2025 Student Movement in Serbia
Two teams of sociologists from the University of Belgrade present research findings on the movement: the dynamics of the blockades, collective identity and the activists' political learning. Helps explain who mobilized and how a new political generation formed.
KOMBINATAS 2025 | Practicing Direct Democracy: Serbia student movement – Ana Vilenica
A session recorded at the Kombinatas 2025 festival on the movement's experiments in direct democracy: university plenums, neighborhood assemblies and liberated cultural spaces. Shows how these initiatives built an infrastructure of resistance that reached beyond the university.
Wake up, Serbia! Pumpaj: The Student Uprising | Point of No Return
A documentary by Raül Gallego Abellán, with exclusive access to the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, the nerve center of the revolt, following the occupations, marches and the students' internal organization. It also portrays the repression and media manipulation strategies the movement had to face.
Recommended or cited by N1
Why are students protesting in Serbia? | The Take
An episode of The Take with investigative journalist Anđela Milivojević on how students turned the Novi Sad station collapse into a national movement, with demands that moved from resignations to structural change. A good framing of the early phase, recorded just before the major protest of 15 March 2025.
Recommended or cited by The Maastricht Diplomat
Serbia’s Gen Z won an election without even standing in it
A Channel 4 News explainer, published after the October 2026 parliamentary election, on how a movement with no recognized leader and no student candidates carried the Student List to a majority. Features analyst Bojana Zoric, who discusses whether the decentralized structure that won power could now hold back governing.
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Organizer speaksHow Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory
The campaign's field director, Tascha Van Auken, explains how the volunteer operation was built over years from the NYC-DSA structure and how door-knocking was organized at scale through to the November victory.
Recommended or cited by Wikipedia: Tascha Van Auken
Organizer speaksThree Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken
A long conversation (about 1 hour 45 minutes) with Tascha Van Auken about the roughly three million doors knocked and the machine of more than 100,000 volunteers, from team training to distributed leadership in the field.
Organizer speaksHow Zohran Mamdani’s Insanely Successful Political Campaign Built a Movement & Won New York
Campaign manager Maya Handa and communications director Andrew Epstein explain how online content was designed to get people off the couch and into in-person action, and what lessons other campaigns can take from it.
Organizer speaksThe Secret Behind Zohran Mamdani’s Viral Videos
Mehdi Hasan talks with members of the campaign's video team (Olivia Becker, Donald Borenstein, Debbie Saslaw) about what went on behind the most viral videos and why copying the style is not enough.
Organizer speaksDigital Strategy Advisor to the Zohran Campaign Talks Using Social Media for Politics
Gabriella Zutrau, the campaign's digital strategy adviser, talks about organic social media applied to politics, including experiments with chatbots that turned followers into campaign contacts.
Organizer speaksHow to Go Viral: Takeaways from the Mamdani campaign, Subway Takes & More
Director Anthony DiMieri, co-founder of Melted Solids and one of the makers of the campaign's street videos, explains the method behind the improvised, documentary format that made the videos go viral.
Zohran Mamdani vs The Machine | Fault Lines Documentary
A documentary of about 25 minutes following Mamdani's unlikely rise and how the grassroots campaign took on New York's traditional political machine.
Recommended or cited by Commons Library: Lessons for campaigners from Zohran Mamdani’s victory
Did Zohran Mamdani’s multilingual campaigning help him win? #language #newyork
A short video by journalist Sophia Smith Galer looking at whether the focus on content in several languages helped Mamdani win. Useful as an introduction to the multilingual side of the campaign.
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Organizer speaksHow Kenyans are using social media to protest against the political class | The Stream
Activists who were in the June 2024 protests, including Boniface Mwangi and Wanjira Wanjiru, discuss how an online campaign against the Finance Bill turned into nationwide street protests. Useful for hearing organizers explain the move from social media to the street in their own words.
Organizer speaks'We Will Fight': Why Gen-Z Came Out To Protest Against The Finance Bill- Wanjira Wanjiru
A 40-minute radio interview in which grassroots organizer Wanjira Wanjiru explains why young Kenyans went out against the Finance Bill. Gives the view of a community organizer from Mathare rather than an online influencer.
Organizer speaksHanifa Adan: My activism story
Hanifa Adan, who shared protest logistics on X and ran the fundraiser for the injured and the families of the dead, tells how she became an activist. A short first-person account from one of the most visible faces of the movement.
Inside Kenya's Gen Z protest movement - Global Eye, BBC World Service
A 28-minute BBC World Service report from inside the Gen Z protest movement. Offers an outside journalistic view of the movement.
Kenyans fought a deadly fight against their government. Here’s how they won | About That
A CBC explainer on how Kenyan protesters forced the government to drop the Finance Bill despite deadly repression. A compact overview for campaigners new to the case.
Recommended or cited by Global Voices Advox: Young Kenyans use technology to mobilize against Finance Bill
Blood Parliament - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
BBC Africa Eye investigates the shooting of three demonstrators outside Parliament in Nairobi on 25 June 2024, using footage from the day. Shows how open-source evidence from protest videos can be used to identify those responsible.
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Organizer speaks“We will win the election” – Nepal’s Gen Z protest leader Sudan Gurung talks to Start Here
Sudan Gurung, who called the 8 September march, talks about the movement's demands, the role of Discord and social media, working alongside pro-monarchy groups and the decision to run in the election. YouTube version of the Start Here interview cited in the playbook.
Organizer speaksWhat do Nepalis want from their new government? - World Questions podcast, BBC World Service
BBC panel in Kathmandu after the 2026 election, with Gen Z activist Rakshya Bam alongside ministers and a lawyer, taking audience questions on the September 2025 killings, police reform and youth emigration.
Organizer speaksहाम्रै सरकार हुँदा पनि राष्ट्रपतिले नमान्ने ??? सुदन गुरुङ | Sudan Gurung with Bikash Thapaliya
Nepali-language TV interview with Sudan Gurung in October 2025, after the interim government took office; the title points to his frustration that the President was not accepting the movement's demands.
Why Gen Z brought down the government in Nepal | The Stream
Recorded days after the government fell, three Nepali writers and journalists discuss the social media ban, the corruption grievances behind the protests and the army-mediated talks over an interim leader.
Why ‘Gen Z’ Protests Are Spreading Across Asia
Explainer that places Nepal's uprising alongside Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as a wave of youth-led revolts, looking at shared causes and the role of social media.
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Organizer speaksDiomaye Président : Amadou Chérif Diouf raconte les coulisses de la victoire du 24 mars
Pastef's finance secretary Amadou Chérif Diouf tells the behind-the-scenes story of the 24 March 2024 victory. The video accompanies the Le Soleil interview cited in the playbook and gives a party insider's account of how the campaign was run.
Sénégal : chronique d’un basculement | ARTE Reportage
A 24-minute ARTE report filmed after the postponement of the presidential election, following the weeks that led to Faye's victory. Gives the street-level context of the crisis that civil society and Pastef turned into a vote.
Sénégal: Ousmane Sonko, l’opposant qui a fait élire Bassirou Diomaye Faye
AFP explains how Ousmane Sonko, barred from the race, transferred his support to Bassirou Diomaye Faye and got him elected. A short guide to the substitute candidate strategy at the heart of the case.
Présidentielle au Sénégal : comment expliquer la victoire de Bassirou Diomaye Faye ?
Senegalese journalist Ass Mademba Ndiaye analyses, live from Dakar, why Faye won in the first round. A quick analytical reading of the result for French speakers.
Senegal’s Democracy: How Did We Get Here and What Shall We Expect?
A one-hour CSIS panel on how Senegal reached the election of Bassirou Diomaye Faye and what to expect next. Useful for the institutional and civil society context behind the result.
Senegal's 2024 Presidential Elections and Reflections on the State of Democracy in West Africa
A 21-minute Wilson Center discussion of the election that almost did not happen, after the attempted postponement. Places the case in the wider picture of democracy in West Africa.
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Organizer speaksCHODŹ Z NAMI! Dołącz do społecznych sztabów Akcji Demokracji
Akcja Demokracja's own call to join its nonpartisan civic campaign committees (sztaby społeczne), embedded on the project page; shows how the organization pitched local volunteering to new recruits. In Polish.
Recommended or cited by Akcja Demokracja: Społeczne sztaby (project page)
Organizer speaksWe voted for abortion and won the elections!
A short video message from the Polish Women's Strike after the October 2023 election, released with its statement that women and young people delivered the result; shows how the movement framed its "vote for abortion" campaign afterwards.
Recommended or cited by European Civic Forum: Polish Women's Strike protested in 2020, then voted in 2023
Organizer speaksCafe Akcja: plan Akcji na wybory przedstawia Bogumił Kolmasiak
Recorded in February 2023, Bogumił Kolmasiak sets out Akcja Demokracja's plan for the October election and invites supporters to form local citizen campaign teams. Shows how the turnout drive was pitched to volunteers eight months out.
Organizer speaksPrzed wyborami powstaną sztaby społeczne - dlaczego? Mówi Bogumił Kolmasiak z Akcji Demokracja
On the naTemat poliTYka podcast, Bogumił Kolmasiak explains why Akcja Demokracja set up citizen campaign teams and why he worried more about people being kept from voting than about ballot fraud. Clarifies how the teams differed from election monitoring groups.
Society in action. The power of mobilisation and self-organisation
A day-long Batory Foundation conference held a year after the 15 October 2023 election, looking at how Polish civil society mobilised and organised itself, with comparisons to France in 2024. Long, but useful for the research findings on the mobilisation.
Polarization that boosted voter turnout - lessons from Poland's 2023 parliamentary elections
A UCL SSEES talk in which Mikołaj Cześnik uses Polish National Election Study data to explain the record 2023 turnout as a product of polarisation and strategic mobilisation. Helpful for seeing which previously apathetic groups turned out and why.
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Organizer speaksDr. Ailbhe Smyth - The People Say 'Yes': A Victory for Abortion Rights in Ireland
Together for Yes co-director Ailbhe Smyth speaks to the Irish Global Health Network about the referendum that repealed the Eighth Amendment. An account of the 2018 win from one of the three people who led the campaign.
Organizer speaksShoutOut: Know Your Queer History Episode 9: Ailbhe Smyth
Ailbhe Smyth talks about her decades of activism, from founding Marriage Equality to co-founding the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment and co-directing Together for Yes. It traces the line from the 2015 marriage campaign to the 2018 repeal campaign through someone who was in both.
Organizer speaksMeet Two of the Activists Behind Ireland’s Historic Vote to Repeal a Ban on Nearly All Abortions
Days after the 2018 vote, Democracy Now! speaks with Together for Yes co-director Gráinne Griffin and canvassing coordinator Annie Hoey about how the campaign was built. Hear the people who ran the coalition and its doorstep operation.
Organizer speaksLessons from the Movement to Overturn Ireland’s Abortion Ban
A Columbia Law School panel on how Irish activists overturned the abortion ban, with Ailbhe Smyth, Andrea Horan and the director of the documentary The 8th. Useful for the strategic choices behind the coalition, aimed at campaigners elsewhere.
Yes or No? On the doorsteps with canvasses
TheJournal.ie follows Yes and No canvassers on the doorsteps of County Meath a month before the 2018 vote. A short news piece, included because it shows the door-to-door work the campaign relied on.
Together for Yes- Campaign for Abortion Rights in Ireland
A short film from CREA's series on abortion rights campaigns in Argentina, Ireland, Kenya and Poland, retelling Together for Yes as a story of popular mobilisation and alliance building. A compact overview for comparing movements.
Lessons from the Irish Referendum
A Verso Books panel recorded two weeks after the referendum, drawing lessons from the repeal campaign for abortion rights organising in the United States. Includes an activist who worked on the campaign and a journalist who covered it.
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Organizer speaksRecetas municipales. Una conversación sobre el cuidado de las ciudades
Thirty-minute documentary by ZEMOS98, recorded in spring 2015, in which Barcelona en Comú's Gala Pin and Marta Cruells and Madrid municipalists discuss how the 15M generation decided to contest city halls. Explains the movement-to-institution step from the people taking it.
Recommended or cited by P2P Foundation Wiki: Barcelona en Comú
Organizer speaks"I ENS PREGUNTARAN QUI SOM" Discurs d'Ada Colau per Guanyem Barcelona #SomGuanyem
Ada Colau's speech for Guanyem Barcelona, the platform that became Barcelona en Comú, published by the party. Shows how the founders framed the project and who it was for at the start.
Recommended or cited by P2P Foundation Wiki: Barcelona en Comú
Organizer speaksAda Colau on Feminizing politics - Film ADA FOR MAYOR (Alcaldessa)
Clip from the documentary 'Ada for Mayor' (Alcaldessa) in which Ada Colau explains what she means by feminising politics: a style that admits doubt instead of projecting certainty. Cited by Oxford's Urban Transformations blog as one of the lessons from Barcelona en Comú.
Recommended or cited by Oxford Urban Transformations: Eight lessons from Barcelona en Comú on how to take back control
Organizer speaksOrganizing in the 2020s: challenges and innovations at international level
Fearless Cities 2021 panel on grassroots organising for transformative candidacies that lack money and media power, with Barcelona en Comú's Kate Shea Baird. Covers direct communication and mobilising a majority to win.
Organizer speaksFeminization of politics / La feminización de la política
Closing panel of Fearless Cities 2021 on the feminisation of politics, with Ada Colau and Gerardo Pisarello of Barcelona en Comú alongside Manuela D'Ávila and Irací Hassler. Discusses proximity, alliances and governing as a conversation.
WORKSHOP 1 HOW TO CREATE A PARTICIPATORY MUNICIPALIST CANDIDACY
Recorded workshop from the 2017 Fearless Cities summit hosted by Barcelona en Comú, on how to build a participatory municipalist candidacy. The closest thing on video to the platform's own 'how to win back the city' guide.
Recommended or cited by URBACT blog: How new municipalism shapes public participation: the Summit of Fearless Cities
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Organizer speaks1471 - Becky Bond and Zack Exley: Lessons From Bernie's "Big Organizing"
The authors of Rules for Revolutionaries explain the big organizing model of Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign: volunteers with real leadership roles, barnstorms and mass phone calls as an alternative to paid microtargeting.
Organizer speaksZack Exley | Lessons from the Sanders Campaign
Zack Exley, who set up the Sanders campaign's distributed volunteer program, gives a Personal Democracy Forum talk on the lessons he drew from the 2016 campaign. Useful for hearing the architect of the barnstorm model explain it to an audience of digital campaigners.
Organizer speaksBecky Bond | Big Organizing in Practice: Knock Every Door
Becky Bond presents Knock Every Door, the volunteer canvassing project she and other Sanders alumni ran after 2016, as an application of big organizing. Shows how the method was carried beyond the presidential campaign into deep conversations at the door.
Organizer speaksBecky Bond And Zack Exley Interview with Cenk Uygur on The Young Turks
The two authors of Rules for Revolutionaries talk with Cenk Uygur about how the Sanders campaign organized volunteers at scale. A second long interview to set beside their Majority Report appearance, aimed at a general progressive audience.
Movement Builders Webinars | Series 2: Hosting an Online Barnstorm
Practical training from the British network NEON on how to run an online barnstorm, the mass meeting that recruits volunteers and gets them organizing events and contacts straight afterwards.
Recommended or cited by Commons Library: Barnstorming in the Australian Context
Webinar Distributed Organizing
A webinar of about an hour presenting the distributed organizing guide from NGP VAN and Tectonica: how to structure autonomous volunteer teams in an election campaign and where to find resources to do it.
Recommended or cited by Commons Library: The Definitive Distributed Organizing Guide
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Organizer speaksRunning the 21st Century Campaign | Joe Rospars + More | Talks at Google
A 2008 panel with Joe Rospars (Obama's new media director) and digital leads from other campaigns on small-donor fundraising, online volunteer networks, supporter-generated content and targeted advertising.
Organizer speaksTeddy Goff, Digital Director for Obama for America, at Digital Book World 2013
The digital director of Obama's 2012 re-election describes how the campaign used email, social media and data to mobilize supporters, in a talk aimed at an audience outside politics.
Organizer speaksMarshall Ganz on the Future of the Obama Movement
Marshall Ganz, who designed the volunteer training for the 2008 Obama campaign, speaks at the Personal Democracy Forum about the future of the movement that campaign created and what it demands in terms of organizing.
Organizer speaksQ&A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird
Recorded at Harvard's Internet and Politics conference in December 2008, weeks after the election, Ganz and Bird answer questions on using the internet to support self-organized local groups, the campaign's use of video, and what to do with the volunteer base it built. Good for the relationship between strategy, training and online tools.
Recommended or cited by Marshall Ganz, Harvard faculty page (Panel Discussions)
Organizer speaksa conversation with Marshall Ganz
Listed on Ganz's Harvard page as the second part of the December 2008 Berkman session with Jeremy Bird, where Ganz argued that the campaign depended on the people doing the work more than on the tools, and that self-organization takes skill, practice and coaching. Explains the reasoning behind Camp Obama's training model.
Recommended or cited by Marshall Ganz, Harvard faculty page (Panel Discussions)
Organizer speaksJeremy Bird: Scaling Grassroots Movements with the Obama Campaign
Jeremy Bird, who tested the neighborhood-team model in South Carolina in 2008, talks to a community-building conference about how the Obama campaigns scaled a volunteer organization. Useful for organizers outside politics who want the team structure explained in general terms.
Organizer speaksA new kind of politics: Jeremy Bird at TEDxUChicago 2014
A short TEDx talk in which Jeremy Bird reflects on the grassroots organizing behind the Obama campaigns and what it suggests for politics more broadly. A compact entry point before the longer Harvard Q&A.
The Power of Organizing: Betsy Hoover at TEDxDePaulU
Betsy Hoover, an organizer by training who later ran online organizing for Obama's re-election, talks about finding and motivating people online and how online and offline organizing meet. Extends the 2008 lesson that digital tools only work when tied to trained local organizers.
Recommended or cited by Commons Library
South Korea · 2024–2025
The light stick revolution
Arrive in minutes, return every Saturday, care from afar
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Organizer speaks[시선집중] 탄핵 완료시까지 집회 계속... 장소는 광화문으로 이동 - 이지현 참여연대 사무처장, MBC 241215 방송
Radio interview from 15 December 2024 with PSPD's Lee Ji-hyun, one of the coalition's coordinators, the day after the first impeachment vote. The title says the rallies would continue until impeachment was completed and move to Gwanghwamun.
Organizer speaks[모닝콜] '내란의 밤' 계엄군 막은 진짜 주연들 "'비키라'는 계엄군 눈빛·태도 못 잊어" (2025.12.03/뉴스투데이/MBC)
One year on, two young parliamentary aides who stood in front of military trucks on the night of 3 December recount it. The interview also covers the "human Kisses" sit-in, the Namtaeryeong standoff and why so many young women took part.
농민🧑🌾과 응원봉✨의 만남, 신세계 열어버린 '남태령 대첩'
Short reportage on the 28-hour standoff at Namtaeryeong, where police stopped the farmers' tractor march and an SOS on social media brought citizens with light sticks to the pass. Useful for seeing how an online call turned into a crowd overnight.
MZ가 탄핵 응원봉을 든 이유, "윤석열로부터 내 소중한 것들 지킬 거야" - 뉴스타파
Newstapa asks young protesters, mostly women in their 20s and 30s, why they brought K-pop light sticks to the impeachment rallies, and a sociologist reads the trend as soft power pressing the political class. Companion to the Newstapa article cited in the playbook.
South Korea 2024 Martial Law Crisis: Its Hard-Won Fight For Democracy | CNA Correspondent
CNA documentary marking one year since martial law: how citizens rushed to the National Assembly, how lawmakers forced their way in, and what changed after Yoon's removal. An English-language overview of the whole arc.
[full] 밀착 기록, 계엄의 밤 | 추적60분 1391회 KBS 241206 방송
KBS crew filmed at the National Assembly from the declaration until martial law was lifted and aired this three days later, looking at how lawmakers and citizens defended the Assembly that night.
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Organizer speaks" අපි රට හදනවා..." අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක දුන්නු පිළිතුරු | Anura Kumara Dissanayake | 10 Questions
Sinhala-language Newsfirst interview with Anura Kumara Dissanayake from January 2022, a few months before the Aragalaya; the title quotes him saying "we are building the country". Shows how he addressed a mass TV audience.
Organizer speaksJVP MP Bimal Rathnayaka on media, including social media
A short clip, posted by researcher Sanjana Hattotuwa, in which NPP MP Bimal Rathnayake credits the 2024 victories to young people at home and abroad using smartphones and social media, saying no TV channel helped the party. Spoken in Sinhala; Groundviews published an English translation.
Recommended or cited by Groundviews
‘We’ve tried everybody else’: what’s next for Sri Lanka’s turn to the left? | The Take
Al Jazeera's The Take explains how the 2022 collapse and the Aragalaya protests led voters to elect Anura Kumara Dissanayake, and what pressures the new government faces with the IMF.
Sri Lanka's path forward and Asia's response | DW News Desk
DW panel recorded two days after the presidential vote, on why voters rejected the old guard after the 2022 crisis and what a leftist president means for recovery.
How the Left Won Sri Lanka - Devaka Gunawardena Pt. 2/2
Political economist Devaka Gunawardena explains the dynasties that ran Sri Lanka before 2024 and how Anura Kumara Dissanayake built support across ethnic and class lines as an outsider. Part two of a two-part interview; part one covers the debt crisis and IMF terms.
Interview on disinfo around 2024's Presidential Election in Sri Lanka
A brief BBC interview, broadcast days before the September 2024 presidential vote, in which Sanjana Hattotuwa discusses disinformation around the election. Short, but gives the information environment the NPP campaigned in.
NPP's Victory: What Lies Ahead for Sri Lanka Under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake?
Journalist Sulochana Ramiah Mohan unpacks the factors behind the NPP's 2024 victories and the breadth of its support, including the growing role of women in Sri Lankan politics. A journalist's overview rather than an insider account.
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Organizer speaksNahid Islam | July Movement, Jamaat-e-Islami & NCP | SCANeDalous with SameerScane
Long-form podcast with Nahid Islam ahead of the 2026 election, covering the July movement, relations with Jamaat-e-Islami and the founding of the National Citizen Party.
Organizer speaks‘জুলাই গণঅভ্যুত্থানে দুইবার গুমের শিকার হয়েছি' | Podcast | July Uprising | Nahid Islam | Ekattor TV
Bangla-language podcast from July 2026 in which Nahid Islam recalls the uprising; the title quotes him saying he was forcibly disappeared twice during the movement.
Organizer speaksকেমন বাংলাদেশ চান সারজিস আলম ও হাসনাত আব্দুল্লাহ | Sarjis Alam | Hasnat Abdullah | Prothom Alo
Two months after Hasina fell, two of the movement's central coordinators tell Prothom Alo what kind of Bangladesh they want to build.
জুলাই আন্দোলনের শেষ পাঁচদিন যা যা ঘটছিল | BBC Bangla
BBC Bangla reconstructs the last five days of the 36-day movement, from the Jamaat ban on 1 August to Hasina's flight on 5 August, and what the later international investigation found.
জুলাইয়ের টানা ৩৬ দিন | ছত্রিশ জুলাই প্রামাণ্য চিত্র | Channel 24
Bangla TV documentary on the 36 days of July 2024, released for the first anniversary, with millions of views.
The Student Faces Of The Bangladesh Revolt | First Things Fast
Short English news explainer made two days after Hasina fled, profiling student coordinator Nahid Islam and Abu Sayed, whose killing galvanised the protests. Basic background only.
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Organizer speaksმარიამ კაულაშვილი და ილია ღლონტი - ჯგუფ „დაიტოვეს“ წარმომადგენლები
Ilia Glonti and Mariam Kaulashvili of the Daitove group, which coordinated protest logistics on Facebook, are interviewed on Georgian television. A rare chance to hear the people behind the group, in Georgian.
Organizer speaksHas Georgia Reached the Point of No Return? Nino Dolidze on Democracy, Elections, Disinfo &more EP59
ISFED director Nino Dolidze talks about democracy, elections and disinformation in Georgia. Useful for understanding how independent election observers work under growing pressure.
Organizer speaksSovereignty w/o Sovereignty&Peace w/o Peace: Georgia's Post-Election Crisis&Current Mass Resistance
A Columbia University Harriman Institute panel on Georgia's post-election crisis and the mass resistance that followed, with anthropologist and protest participant Tamta Khalvashi. Combines academic analysis with first-hand experience of the movement.
Did Georgian police use a chemical weapon against protesters? - BBC World Service Documentaries
A year-long BBC Eye investigation into claims that Georgian police added a chemical to water cannons used on protesters. Shows how protesters' testimonies and medical evidence were turned into accountability journalism.
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Georgia: Till the Last Breath | ARTE.tv Documentary
An ARTE report made one year into the Georgian uprising, around the local elections of 4 October 2025. Shows how the movement kept going while the government's methods stayed the same.
Georgia’s civil society teams up to monitor crucial election, defying 'foreign agent' law | VOA News
A short VOA news piece on Georgian civil society groups joining forces to observe the 26 October 2024 election despite the foreign agents law. A brief look at election monitoring as an organizing task; short news, included for lack of longer material on the observers.
4 videos
Organizer speaksLas entrevistas de Aimar | Sebastián Kraljevich, jefe de estrategia de Boric
Boric's chief strategist Sebastián Kraljevich is interviewed on Cadena SER's 'Las entrevistas de Aimar'. A source for how the campaign's strategy was read from the inside by the person who designed it.
Organizer speaksIzkia Siches por triunfo de Boric: "Fue determinante tener una campaña ciudadana"
Short news clip in which runoff campaign manager Izkia Siches credits Boric's victory to having run a citizens' campaign. Useful as a first-hand verdict on the role of self-organised supporters, though it is brief.
Organizer speaksGabriel Boric Win in Chile Is “Huge Victory” for Social Movements That Fought Off Far-Right Threat
Two Chilean movement activists explain on Democracy Now! why they read Boric's runoff win as a victory for social movements. Javiera Manzi describes how the Coordinadora Feminista 8M committed to campaign the day after the first round and argues that opposing Kast was not enough without an active campaign.
Cristóbal Huneeus: “Si los menores de 30 años van a votar en segunda vuelta, Gabriel es presidente”
Data analyst Cristóbal Huneeus argues on CNN Chile, before the runoff, that the result depended on whether voters under 30 turned out. Useful context for the campaign's focus on young and new voters.
6 videos
Organizer speaksBefore Alexandria Was Known As AOC, There Was A Movement That Recruited Her To Run
Short film by Justice Democrats about the movement that recruited Ocasio-Cortez before she ran. It gives the recruiters' own account of their candidate-search model.
Organizer speaksAlexandra Rojas on The Open Mind: New Dealers Reborn
Alexandra Rojas, a Brand New Congress co-founder who ran the field in the campaign's last two months and then led Justice Democrats, discusses the group's project on the public-affairs show The Open Mind.
Organizer speaksFilmmaker behind Ocasio-Cortez's viral ad explains why campaigns are getting personal
The filmmaker behind the campaign's viral launch video explains to CBS News why campaign ads are getting more personal. Useful context for the personal style of the launch video.
Organizer speaksKnock Down The House | FULL FEATURE | Netflix
Full documentary following four women who ran for Congress for the first time in 2018, including Ocasio-Cortez in her primary against Joe Crowley. Shows the daily work of an insurgent campaign up close.
Organizer speaksAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Interview with NowThis – Extended Cut | NowThis
Extended interview recorded after Ocasio-Cortez defeated incumbent Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary. The candidate talks about the campaign right after the win.
Organizer speaksThe 39 Year Old Challenging Nancy Pelosi | Saikat Chakrabarti | Warm Intro
Long interview with Saikat Chakrabarti, recorded as he ran for Congress himself. The title frames it around his race against Nancy Pelosi; the channel's own clip from it covers how he recruited Ocasio-Cortez.
5 videos
Organizer speaks"We'll be much bigger than the tories" | Aaron Bastani meets Momentum's Laura Parker
Aaron Bastani interviews Laura Parker, then Momentum's national coordinator, about Labour, Jon Lansman and the Conservatives, nine months after the 2017 election. It shows how the organisation's leadership saw its role and its growth after June 2017.
Organizer speaksMomentum's Plan to Win
Momentum's 2019 strategy call with Jeremy Corbyn, in which the organisation set out its Plan to Win and asked supporters to get involved. It shows the satellite model built after 2017 sharing its election strategy openly with volunteers.
Tory Britain in 2030 - Daddy, why do you hate me?'
The satirical Momentum film in which a girl in 2030 asks her Conservative-voting father why he hates her. Momentum's own election page links this copy and says nearly 8 million people watched it; it is the reference example of the cheap, one-idea video format in the playbook.
Recommended or cited by LSE British Politics and Policy (Matt Walsh), Understanding Labour's ingenious campaign strategy on Facebook
The UK's New Digital Left: Paid Social, Civic Tech, and Mobilizing the Youth Vote, with Samir Patel
Samir Patel of Blue State Digital London discusses how the British left's push in digital helped Labour in 2017: Facebook targeting by the party and by advocacy groups, youth mobilisation and citizen-built civic tech. Context on the digital side of the satellite campaign.
Momentum steals Labour party limelight | World
Short Financial Times report by Henry Mance on Momentum's followers and the events the group ran alongside Labour's September 2017 conference. A news piece, included for an outside view of the movement three months after the election.
5 videos
Organizer speaksclkao - The civic hacking revolution in Taiwan, a BetaTalk
Weeks after the occupation ended, g0v co-founder clkao explains how civic hackers used hackpads, livestreams, wireless networks and open data to keep the public informed during the Sunflower occupation. One of the earliest first-hand accounts in English.
Organizer speaksKeynote: Plurality: From Sunflower to Global Digital Democracy, with Audrey Tang
Audrey Tang traces the line from the 2014 occupation to vTaiwan, petitions and the Plurality approach, in conversation at Cambridge's Technology and Democracy Conference. Good for understanding how protest tools became institutions.
Organizer speaksSunflower Student Movement 10 Years On | Connected with Divya Gopalan
Ten years on, Jiho Chang, who was on the ground in 2014, revisits the storming of the legislature, the case against the trade pact, internal rifts among protesters and how the media portrayed them.
Organizer speaksHow the Sunflower Movement Shaped Taiwan
Short TaiwanPlus piece in which former student leader Lin Fei-fan explains why the movement mattered and compares it with Ukraine's Euromaidan.
Organizer speaksGovernment by the people, with the people | Audrey Tang | Future of Democracy Series
Audrey Tang and Beth Noveck discuss how Taiwan uses civic tech for participation and deliberation, including the vTaiwan process that grew out of the g0v community. A full transcript is linked from the video page.
5 videos
Organizer speaksRevisiting the Yes Equality Campaign: A Decade of Marriage Equality
National Library of Ireland panel marking ten years since the referendum, with former Yes Equality co-director Brian Sheehan alongside activists Karl Hayden and Anna MacCarthy. They reflect on the 2015 referendum and the Yes Equality campaign from the inside.
Organizer speaksShoutOut: Know Your Queer History Episode 5: Tiernan Brady
Tiernan Brady, Yes Equality's political director and a former GLEN member, talks about his part in the Irish marriage equality campaign in the Know Your Queer History series. He later directed the Australian campaign, so the episode links the two cases.
Recommended or cited by GCN, Tiernan Brady recalls Marriage Equality campaign in latest ShoutOut episode
Organizer speaksYes Equality Launch - Press Questions and Close
Footage of the press questions at the Yes Equality launch on 9 March 2015, with Gráinne Healy, Kieran Rose and Mark Kelly answering journalists. A primary record of how the three organisations presented the campaign on its first day.
Organizer speaksPresentation by GLEN, Irish Council of Civil Liberties and Marriage Equality
Presentation by GLEN, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Marriage Equality to the Convention on the Constitution in April 2013, with Tiernan Brady, Moninne Griffith and Gráinne Healy among the speakers. It shows the case the future Yes Equality leaders made two years before the referendum.
Recommended or cited by Wikipedia, Tiernan Brady
Marriage Equality: Bring Your Family With You
Bring Your Family With You, a short film from the LGBT youth and parents' coalition led by BeLonG To, asking viewers to talk to family and friends about the vote. A campaign video, included because the case credits BeLonG To's videos with bringing families to the polls.
Recommended or cited by Breac (University of Notre Dame), Changed Utterly: Reading about the 2015 Marriage Referendum
4 videos
Organizer speaksThe men behind Led By Donkeys on hypocrisy, the Brexit frontline and direct action
Co-founders Ben Stewart and Oliver Knowles tell Channel 4 News why they started pasting politicians' own quotes on billboards, what impact they think it had and whether direct action changes things. Recorded as their book came out and the 2019 election was called.
Recommended or cited by Now Then Magazine, Festival of Debate presents Led By Donkeys: the four men behind the billboards
Organizer speaksDesigning disobedience| Led By Donkeys
Design Indaba talk by Led By Donkeys on how a night-time guerrilla poster campaign against Brexit grew into a wider movement against political hypocrisy. It tells the method in the founders' own words: billboards carrying politicians' quotes, then reach on social media.
Recommended or cited by Al Majalla, Satire campaign ruffles politicians' feathers ahead of UK vote
Organizer speaksLed By Donkeys: "Liz Truss was fair game" | The New Statesman
The New Statesman's Will Dunn meets Led By Donkeys after the lettuce banner that interrupted Liz Truss, and asks whether a Labour government will change their approach. The group explains why it keeps scrutinising politicians after they leave office.
Organizer speaksWall of Grief and Love the Podcast - Episode 1: Beginnings
Oliver Knowles and James Sadri of Led By Donkeys recall how the National Covid Memorial Wall began as a protest by bereaved families, before a charity took over its care. A first-hand account of an action built together with the families.
6 videos
Organizer speaksFmr. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on "A Different Kind of Power" | Amanpour and Company
Christiane Amanpour talks with Jacinda Ardern about her memoir A Different Kind of Power, including her unexpected rise to prime minister in 2017 and the lessons she draws from her time in office.
Organizer speaksJacinda Ardern thinks politics needs more kindess | NPR
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jacinda Ardern about her memoir, starting from election night 2017 and the pregnancy test she took the same day. Ardern reflects on that moment and on leading the country afterwards.
Organizer speaksLabour’s general secretary talks to RNZ’s political reporters
On election day 2017, Labour general secretary Andrew Kirton talks to RNZ's political reporters and says the party expects a high overseas vote. A short practitioner clip from inside the campaign at its end.
Organizer speaksMorning Report: Election 2017 Leader Interview - Jacinda Ardern
A long RNZ Morning Report interview with Jacinda Ardern two weeks before the 2017 vote, part of the station's in-depth leader series. Shows how she defended Labour's platform under pressure in the middle of the campaign.
Let's do this TV Ad (30s)
Labour's 30-second Let's do this TV ad from August 2017, built on the slogan Ardern adopted in her first hours as leader. A campaign ad, included because the Brave New Words episode on this campaign embeds it.
Recommended or cited by Words to Win By / Brave New Words (Anat Shenker-Osorio), Let's Do This, New Zealand
The 2017 New Zealand Election Explained
An explainer published the day after the 2017 election covering New Zealand's electoral system, the parties, the course of the campaign and the knife-edge result. Gives context for the Labour surge after the leadership change.
5 videos
Organizer speaksGuillaume Liege: How Data and Technology Have Transformed Electoral Campaigns | OMR Festival 2018
Guillaume Liegey, whose firm designed En Marche!'s Grande Marche, gives a 20-minute festival talk billed to explain how the Macron campaign worked and how data, digital tools and field volunteers fit together in modern campaigns.
Organizer speaksHow did President Macron build a new political party? And will it last?
An Oxford panel from February 2018 in which Guillaume Liegey, who helped build En Marche!'s field operation, discusses with Andrew Adonis and historian Sudhir Hazareesingh how the movement was built and whether its model survives the move into government.
Recommended or cited by Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Organizer speaksOn the campaign trail in France - Fighting for Macron | DW Documentary
DW follows an En Marche! district chair and his volunteers canvassing high-rise estates in the Paris suburbs before the first round, showing door-to-door work with disillusioned and first-time voters up close.
Organizer speaksMacronLeaks : "depuis décembre, on se fait pilonner"
A short franceinfo clip on the MacronLeaks whose title quotes the campaign saying it had been under constant attack since December; the same words were attributed to digital chief Mounir Mahjoubi in May 2017. Useful for how the campaign framed the hack publicly. Short news piece.
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer. French Government Actions on Fighting Information Manipulation.
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, author of the main post-mortem of the Macron Leaks, speaks at NATO's strategic communications centre about how the French state responds to information manipulation; useful context for the campaign's defence against the leak.
6 videos
Organizer speaksThe digital component of Ukraine’s resistance to Russian aggression
Mykhailo Fedorov discusses Ukraine's digital resistance to the Russian invasion at an Atlantic Council event co-hosted with StrategEast. A direct account from the minister who led the digital front of the campaign.
Organizer speaksМихайло Федоров: Нові послуги в Дії, Starlink та що пише міністру Ілон Маск
On Ukrainian breakfast television, Mykhailo Fedorov talks about the role of the Diia app in the war, Starlink and his messages with Elon Musk. A first-hand account, in Ukrainian, of the direct approach to tech executives.
Simon Shuster: Volodymyr Zelensky and the Invasion That Shook the World
Time journalist Simon Shuster talks about his book The Showman and how a former comedian became a wartime leader. Useful for the inside story of how the presidential office built its communication.
Speeches that have made Europe: Volodymyr Zelenskyy (2022)
The European Parliament's research service places a 2022 Zelensky speech among the speeches that shaped the European Union. A short look at why his wartime addresses to European audiences landed.
Why is Ukraine winning? Liubov Tsybulska on Ukraine's strategic communication during war
Ukrainian strategic communication specialist Liubov Tsybulska explains how Ukraine communicated during the war. Gives a practitioner's view of state strategic communication alongside the presidency's own work.
How Zelensky is winning the information war against Putin
CNN's Brian Todd looks at how Zelensky used social media to lift Ukrainian morale and win support abroad in the first weeks of the invasion. A short news explainer, useful as a quick introduction.
5 videos
Organizer speaksHumour v Rumour, Masks, The Spokesdog And The Premier's Bottom - How Taiwan Tackles The Coronavirus
Audrey Tang tells BBC Click how Taiwan answered pandemic rumours with fast, funny official memes, including the spokesdog and the premier's self-mocking post. A compact introduction to humour over rumour.
Organizer speaksConfronting Disinformation: A Conversation with Audrey Tang
Conversation at Harvard's Shorenstein Center with Audrey Tang on confronting disinformation, from rapid government responses to work with civic fact-checkers.
Organizer speaksTICTeC 2018: CoFacts, the chatbot that combats misinformation.
At TICTeC 2018, ttcat presents Cofacts, the volunteer LINE chatbot and open hoax database that checks rumours in closed chat groups. Covers how the system works and what reports reveal about how false messages spread.
Organizer speaksCofacts, A collaborative fact-checking system with LINE. -English version-
A Cofacts contributor walks through the crowdsourced fact-checking system on LINE: the chatbot, the volunteer editors and the fully open data and code. Practical for anyone building a tip line for closed messaging apps.
Organizer speaksTaiwan's Digital Minister Speaks To WION
Full WION interview with Audrey Tang on Taiwan's digital pandemic response and on using humour against disinformation.
Global (began in Sweden) · 2018–2019
Climate strike
A repeatable ritual, local groups and organized press
5 videos
Organizer speaksSchool strike for climate - save the world by changing the rules | Greta Thunberg | TEDxStockholm
Greta Thunberg explains, three months into her strike, why she started skipping school on Fridays outside the Swedish parliament and what she wants adults and politicians to do; the founding statement of the movement.
Recommended or cited by Wikipedia: Greta Thunberg
Organizer speaksWhy you should be a climate activist | Luisa Neubauer
Luisa Neubauer, one of the faces of Fridays for Future in Germany, makes the case for becoming a climate activist, drawing on the first year of the strikes.
Recommended or cited by Wikipedia: Luisa Neubauer
Organizer speaksThe one thing you can and should do to prevent climate change | Carla Reemtsma | TEDxMünster
Carla Reemtsma, a spokesperson for Fridays for Future in Germany, argues in an 11-minute talk that the single most useful thing people can do about climate change is collective political action.
Recommended or cited by Wikipedia (de): Carla Reemtsma
Organizer speaksUganda’s First Fridays for Future Climate Striker, Vanessa Nakate, Joins COP25 Protests in Madrid
Vanessa Nakate, who began striking alone outside Uganda's parliament, talks to Democracy Now! at the COP25 protests in Madrid about how floods and droughts hit farming communities in her country and why she strikes.
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Organizer speaks#betd21 Brianna Fruean & Vanessa Nakate - Young Keynotes
Keynotes by Vanessa Nakate and Pacific activist Brianna Fruean at the German Foreign Office's energy conference in 2021, an example of how strike organizers took the movement's message into government forums.
Recommended or cited by Wikipedia: Vanessa Nakate
6 videos
Organizer speaksThe Battle for Reproductive Rights in Kansas ft. Ashley All
Ashley All, one of the leaders of the No campaign, talks through how a solidly Republican state voted down the abortion amendment. A long conversation in which one of the people who shaped the strategy explains it at length.
Organizer speaksKansas Case Study: Messages That Win in a Post-Roe America with Ashley All @ NC NOW 2022 - SD 480p B
Conference session at NC NOW 2022 in which Ashley All presents Kansas as a case study in messages that win after Roe, built on a nonpartisan effort to defeat the amendment. Low-resolution recording on a personal channel.
Organizer speaksWomen for Kansas presents "It's Still About No" Zoom Webinar
Zoom webinar from Women for Kansas, one of the coalition partners, titled "It's Still About No", with Ashley All and lawyer Erin Thompson among the panelists. Useful for hearing the No campaign discussed at length, with one of its leaders on the panel.
Organizer speaksHow Activists Worked To Secure An Abortion Rights Victory In Kansas
Short TV interview in which campaign manager Rachel Sweet describes the organizing that got voters to the polls and defeated the amendment. A news segment, but a quick introduction to the field side of the campaign.
Organizer speaksKansas Abortion Advocates Were 'Willing To Accept People In The Middle’
Ashley All, the campaign's spokesperson, reacts to the result on Meet the Press NOW and explains why the campaign was willing to accept people in the middle. A short news interview that states the big-tent approach in her own words.
Campaign Case Study: Kansas Vote Neigh
Short case study from the Center for Artistic Activism, which worked with Loud Light, on Vote Neigh, the youth turnout campaign run during the Kansas vote. Useful for the creative side of mobilizing young voters.
4 videos
Organizer speaksDebates y escenarios en pos de la legalización del aborto (María Alicia Gutierrez).
Talk by María Alicia Gutiérrez, a member of the National Campaign since its start, in a seminar on debates and scenarios for legalising abortion at the Gino Germani Research Institute (UBA). A practitioner's account from within the Campaign's academic wing.
Organizer speaksAcceso al Aborto Legal y Salud Sexual en Argentina: Entrevista a Martina Ferreto (Campaña Nacional)
Interview with Martina Ferreto of the National Campaign on access to legal abortion and sexual health in Argentina. Relevant to the post-law phase, when the Campaign's networks keep the right working in practice.
The Green Wave: Marching towards legal abortion in Argentina
Short Amnesty International film on the green wave and the marches towards legal abortion in Argentina. Shows the street mobilisation and the green scarf as a shared symbol.
“Que sea ley”, la batalla de las mujeres en Argentina
RFI report on 'Que sea ley', Juan Solanas's documentary about Argentine women's fight for legal abortion. A pointer to the long-form film on the 2018 mobilisation.
5 videos
Organizer speaksWinning Change in Unlikely Places: Lessons from Historic Marriage Equality Campaigns
A Harvard Kennedy School masterclass in which Tiernan Brady walks through how the Australian and Irish marriage equality campaigns were designed and won. Useful for his reasoning on persuading the middle rather than mobilising only supporters.
Organizer speaksGay marriage - How to steer a political campaign | London Business School
A short excerpt of Tiernan Brady speaking to London Business School students about steering the Australian and Irish marriage equality campaigns, the only two national public votes on the issue. A quick entry point to his approach.
Organizer speaks2019 UniSA Nelson Mandela Lecture Delivered by Sally Rugg: How Powerful We Are
Sally Rugg gives the 2019 UniSA Nelson Mandela Lecture on her book How Powerful We Are, a behind-the-scenes account of how Australia won marriage equality. She sets out to correct later retellings of the campaign and talks about what ordinary supporters can do.
Organizer speaksYes, Yes, Yes With Alex Greenwich MP, Dr Shirleen Robinson & Senator Sarah Hanson Young
Audio from the launch of Yes Yes Yes: Australia's Journey to Marriage Equality, recorded a year after the vote and released as a podcast episode by the Australia Institute. The co-authors, both campaign leaders, reflect on how the postal survey was fought.
Australia has voted
Australian Marriage Equality's highlight reel released the day the result was announced, thanking those who knocked on doors, made calls, put up posters and talked with loved ones. A campaign video, useful as a quick visual record of the field tactics.
Recommended or cited by Wikipedia, Tiernan Brady
6 videos
Organizer speaksMódulo 1 - CURSO ONLINE DE MULTIPLICADORES DO PLEBISCITO POPULAR
First module of the online course for plebiscite multipliers, run by the plebiscite's national secretariat with the DIEESE labour school. This is the training itself, given to volunteers before the vote collection.
Organizer speaksA proposta de plebiscito popular para virar o jogo – com Igor Felipe | Outra Manhã 28.3.2025
Recorded in March 2025, before the launch, Igor Felippe Santos presents the popular plebiscite as a way to turn the political tide. Useful for the reasoning behind choosing this format.
Organizer speaksPlebiscito Popular: Resultados e Perspectivas - 4V Podcast EP 7
Podcast in which Simone Nascimento talks with Igor Felippe, an MST activist and plebiscite spokesperson, about the plebiscite's results and what comes next for social mobilization.
Organizer speaksPlebiscito Popular quer ouvir o povo com Neiva Lazzarotto e Lucas Monteiro | De Fato #98
Episode of the De Fato podcast (Brasil de Fato RS) with Lucas Monteiro, the plebiscite's coordinator in Rio Grande do Sul, and union leader Neiva Lazzarotto, recorded ahead of the first national vote-collection drive in early July 2025.
Plebiscito Popular dialoga com população sobre o fim da escala 6x1 e a taxação dos super-ricos
Short Brasil de Fato report on the launch of the plebiscite, in which popular movements, union federations and other groups set out to ask the public about the 6x1 schedule and taxing the super-rich. A news piece.
Taxação 'BBB', memes com gatos e mais: entenda o novo posicionamento do governo nas redes
Short Terra explainer on the federal government's new social media tone around "Taxação BBB" (billionaires, banks and bets), including cat memes. It covers the government layer, which the playbook keeps apart from the plebiscite.
4 videos
Organizer speaks“La consulta popular fue una reacción lógica a lo que nos sucedió”: Antonio Sanguino
Labour Minister Antonio Sanguino tells La Silla Vacía that the consulta popular was a logical reaction to the Senate committee shelving the reform. A first-hand account of why the government turned to the referendum threat.
Organizer speaksSobre la suspensión de la consulta popular y la recta final de la Reforma Laboral
Senator Ariel Ávila, one of the reform's allies in the Senate, comments on his own channel on the suspension of the consulta popular and the final stretch of the labour reform. Shows how an inside legislator read the endgame.
Consulta popular: Senado derrota a Petro pero asume el compromiso de la reforma laboral
La Silla Vacía explains the May 2025 Senate session in which the consulta popular was voted down while senators took on a commitment to revive the labour reform. Useful for seeing the referendum threat as leverage over Congress.
El Senado cedió a la presión de Petro y aprobó la reforma laboral
La Silla Vacía's reading of the June 2025 Senate vote that passed the labour reform, framed as the Senate yielding to Petro's pressure. A critical outside view of whether the pressure strategy worked.
6 videos
Organizer speaksAzevedo: “Movimento Vida Além de Trabalho (VAT) é para acabar com a escala desumana 6x1”
Long interview with Rick Azevedo, founder of the Vida Além do Trabalho (VAT) movement, on its goal of ending the 6x1 schedule (six days on, one off).
Organizer speaks#343 - Eleições de 2026 devem impulsionar luta pelo fim da escala 6x1 - BdF Entrevista Rick Azevedo
Brasil de Fato interview with Rick Azevedo, by then a Rio city councillor, on how VAT turned workers' anger into a movement and why he expected the 2026 elections to push the fight against the 6x1 schedule.
Organizer speaksVida Além do Trabalho: Priscila Santos explica por que a escala 6x1 destrói vidas
Priscila Santos, activist and former national coordinator of VAT, talks about exhaustion, hope and grassroots organizing in the fight against the 6x1 schedule. It gives voice to an organizer other than the founder.
Organizer speaksErika Hilton fala à CNN sobre PEC do fim da escala 6X1 | BASTIDORES CNN
Long CNN Brasil interview with deputy Erika Hilton, author of the constitutional amendment to end the 6x1 schedule, on the proposal.
Ricardo Antunes fala sobre a escala 6x1 e o mundo do trabalho no Pauta Pública 150
Sociologist Ricardo Antunes discusses the 6x1 schedule, the VAT movement and what lies behind the precarization of work. Labour-sociology context for the movement.
Movimento Vida Além do Trabalho e o Fim da Escala 6x1 | Campus
University TV report from TV UERJ on the Vida Além do Trabalho movement and the 6x1 schedule, which governs most work relationships in Brazil.
Brazil · 2018 · The other side: a case study, not a model
The WhatsApp machine
Pyramids of WhatsApp groups instead of TV
6 videos
BOLSONARISMO E PODER DIGITAL, COM ROSANA PINHEIRO-MACHADO
Anthropologist Rosana Pinheiro-Machado analyzes, on the Instituto Lula channel, how Bolsonarism built power on digital networks. Complements the Janones case by explaining the ground the left had to contest and why progressive digital mobilization needed a different language.
Pauta Pública #12 | A Máquina do Ódio - com Patrícia Campos Mello
Agência Pública podcast with Folha reporter Patrícia Campos Mello on the story she published just before the 2018 election exposing the mass WhatsApp messaging scheme, and on her book The Hate Machine. A first-hand account of how the scheme was uncovered.
Conversas: Patrícia Campos Mello e o ódio na internet
Long conversation with Patrícia Campos Mello, the first reporter to show from the inside how the 2018 WhatsApp network was fed, and on hate on the internet.
Technology, Misinformation, & the Brazilian Elections with David Nemer
James Naylor Green interviews David Nemer, a researcher who followed pro-Bolsonaro WhatsApp groups from the inside, on technology and misinformation in Brazilian elections.
🇧🇷 Social media: The new battleground in Brazil's election | The Listening Post
Al Jazeera's media programme The Listening Post looks at how social media became the main battleground of Bolsonaro's 2018 campaign. Recorded during the election.
Computational Power: Automated Use of WhatsApp in Brazilian Elections
Academic talk at Syracuse University's Maxwell School on the automated, strategic use of WhatsApp in Brazil's 2018 presidential election.
Argentina · 2023 · The other side: a case study, not a model
From TV studio to feed
TV clips multiplied by fan creators
7 videos
Encargados digitales de Milei: Los políticos tradicionales le hablaron al joven como si fuera tonto
Chilean TV news interview with the two young managers of Milei's and Villarruel's TikTok accounts, who describe how they aimed content at young voters and claim traditional politicians talked down to them. Watch critically: it is the operators' own account, useful for understanding the method, not for its claims.
#MercenariosDigitales - Capítulo 1: Manipuladores trasnacionales
Chapter 1 of 'Mercenarios Digitales', the cross-border investigation by CLIP and partners including Chequeado into political influence consultants operating across Latin America. The series profiles Fernando Cerimedo, later a Milei campaign adviser.
#MercenariosDigitales - Capítulo 2: ¿Cómo operan las máquinas de influencia?
Chapter 2 of CLIP's 'Mercenarios Digitales' investigation, on how influence machines operate. Useful for recognising the techniques behind coordinated digital campaigns of the kind studied in this case.
LSE III Event | A far-right frontrunner in Argentina’s election: Who are Javier Milei’s supporters?
An LSE International Inequalities Institute talk on the eve of the 2023 election, presenting survey data on who Milei's supporters were. Finds them ideologically inconsistent, spread across regions and classes, and mostly young and male.
El Efecto Milei en Redes Sociales - Fernanda Ruiz y Natalia Zuazo - Desiguales
On the public channel's Desiguales programme, Natalia Zuazo and Fernanda Ruiz analyse Milei's activity on social media and the role his followers play in spreading it. Recorded shortly after the August 2023 primaries.
Por qué votan a Milei: así piensan los seguidores del libertario. Documental exclusivo de LA NACION
A LA NACION short documentary on why people were voting for Milei, combining analysts' readings with interviews with supporters. It links his appeal to overlapping crises and to the role of Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok in amplifying his message.
La estrategia de redes sociales de Javier Milei: 754 likes en un día
An LN+ segment examining Javier Milei's social media strategy, starting from the 754 posts he liked in a single day. Dates from his first months in office, so it shows the campaign's digital habits continuing into government.
United States · 2024 · The other side: a case study, not a model
The podcast route
Long talks on non-political shows, then the clips
6 videos
What is a news influencer?
Pew Research Center's short explainer from its 2024 study of 500 news influencers: who they are, how many Americans get news from them and how few have worked in journalism, the media terrain the podcast strategy exploited.
Recommended or cited by Pew Research Center: America's News Influencers
Harris and Trump campaigns turn to gamers for support
A short ABC News report from late October 2024 on how both campaigns courted gamers and streamers to reach young voters; a news piece included only because no longer analysis could be verified.
Recommended or cited by Wikipedia: Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign
Inside the 2024 General Election
The Harvard Institute of Politics post-election session where both campaigns' leadership explain their 2024 choices to each other and to an audience. Watch it as primary-source analysis of how each side read the electorate, including its media and outreach decisions.
Trump’s success among young men illustrates influence of online 'manosphere'
A PBS NewsHour report on the roughly 15-point shift of young men towards Trump and how his campaign courted them online in spaces far from mainstream media. A concise, sourced overview of the manosphere strategy.
What Trump votes tell us about the ‘manosphere’
A Connecticut Public radio panel of people researching how young men voted in 2024, asking whether podcasts shaped their choices and whether Democrats can compete in those spaces. Useful for separating measured effects from assumptions about the podcast strategy.
Influencers at the Ballot Box: How Online Creators Shaped the 2024 Election
An American Association of Political Consultants webinar on how online creators and influencers shaped the 2024 election, with consultants from both parties. Covers how campaigns pick creators, produce content with them and handle disclosure rules.
Romania · 2024–2025 · The other side: a case study, not a model
The candidate who came from the feed
Telegram, unlabelled influencers and mass accounts
6 videos
Marea breșă a TikTok. Cât de ușor poate un candidat să obțină 1 milion de vizualizări
Romanian investigative outlet Recorder shows, with the help of entrepreneur Levi Elekes, how easily a made-up candidate can reach a million TikTok views through artificial boosting. A concrete demonstration of the platform weakness the Georgescu campaign is accused of exploiting.
Recommended or cited by DFRLab: Rise of unknown Romanian presidential candidate preceded by Telegram and TikTok engagement spikes
Cine e Călin Georgescu?
A Recorder investigative profile of Călin Georgescu and how he went from near-unknown to over two million votes in the first round. Gives the background that the TikTok numbers alone do not explain.
The TikTokers accused of triggering an election scandal - BBC Trending podcast, BBC World Service
BBC Trending talks to influencers about the paid campaigns that led to the cancellation of Romania's December 2024 election. Shows how influencer networks were recruited, often without knowing who was behind the brief.
How far-right candidate Georgescu's TikTok rocked the Romanian election
A 20-minute Sky News explainer on how Georgescu's TikTok presence carried him to a surprise lead in the first round. Useful as an English-language overview of the method and its consequences.
Manipulated or Mobilized? TikTok, Poll Failures, and the Surge of Romania's Far-Right
An election observers' network briefing on Georgescu's surprise first-round win, weighing platform manipulation against genuine mobilization and polling failures. Useful for separating what was artificial from what was real support.
Voxeurop Live | Romania, the laboratory of TikTok populism
A Voxeurop live discussion on why Romania's December 2024 election was cancelled over suspected fraud and foreign interference, and what it says about TikTok populism in Europe. Brings a European media perspective to the case.
Germany · 2021–2025 · The other side: a case study, not a model
First in the feed
Arrive early, short clips and many accounts reposting
7 videos
So plante Erik Ahrens die TikTok-Strategie der AfD | ZAPP | NDR
A 26-minute investigation by NDR's media magazine ZAPP into Erik Ahrens and how he planned the AfD's TikTok strategy; the closest available look at the method from the inside, told by journalists. In German.
Recommended or cited by Wikipedia (de): Erik Ahrens
Algorithmen im Wahlkampf: Welche Parteien junge Menschen in ihrem Feed sehen
Bertelsmann Stiftung's short explainer of its audit with the University of Potsdam on which parties TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and X put in young people's feeds before the 2025 election. In German.
Recommended or cited by Bertelsmann Stiftung: Algorithmen im Wahlkampf (project page)
The Rise of Germany's New Right (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
A full FRONTLINE documentary by Evan Williams on the AfD's rise ahead of and after the 2025 election, giving the wider political context in which its social media strategy operated; it is not focused on TikTok alone.
Recommended or cited by Wikipedia: 2025 German federal election
re:publica 26: Viral, emotional, radikal - hätte die AfD ohne Tiktok zehn Bundestagsmandate weniger?
A re:publica 26 panel built around DIE ZEIT's estimate that TikTok won the AfD about 1.6 points, roughly ten Bundestag seats, in 2025. Debates whether this reflects the best strategy, neglect by other parties or a platform that rewards populist content.
Feel-Good-Rechtsextremismus: Die Strategie der AfD | "Propaganda 4.0" von Johannes Hillje
Johannes Hillje presents the new edition of Propaganda 4.0 on rbb, describing the AfD's shift to what he calls feel-good right-wing extremism: radical demands packaged in friendly, approachable visuals across its own studios and social channels. He also criticises how media and other parties respond.
Propaganda made in TikTok: So manipuliert uns die Plattform - mit Marcus Bösch
On the Netzpiloten podcast, Marcus Bösch discusses TikTok's power in election campaigns, the propaganda potential of AI video and how sounds anchor political slogans. A wider look at the platform mechanics the AfD exploits.
AfD auf TikTok: Warum ist sie so erfolgreich? | ARD Doku: "Die TikTok-Armee der AfD"
An excerpt from the ARD Story documentary Die TikTok-Armee der AfD, in which reporters go undercover in the AfD supporter bubble before the 2025 election. Shows how supporters and party officials try to flood the platform with content to steer the algorithm.
Organizing in general
Relational and distributed organizing explained by the people who teach it, useful for any case.
3 videos
Organizing 201: Distributed Models & Relational Tactics - Toolbox
A session from Arena, a training school for campaign staff, that combines distributed organizing models with relational tactics, meaning getting volunteers to mobilize their own networks of contacts.
Relational Organizing for Downballot Campaigns
A webinar on how to plan a relational organizing program in local campaigns with small teams: strategy, recruiting and supporting community mobilizers, contact tactics and supporting technology.
Relational Organizing and Movement Building | Organizing 101
Introductory training from the Broadbent Institute, a Canadian progressive think tank, on relational organizing and movement building, part of its Organizing 101 program for activists and organizers.
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