Case Studies
Activist projects that worked – or didn't – and why.
How far is too far?
An enlightening debate on disruptive protest, with an activist who spends time in police custody for doing it.
e06: Disruptive protest
Miriam Meyer is a young activist who gets arrested regularly, for blocking roads with the climate action group Last Generation. In this candid interview, I speak to her about the fine line between pushing your proposals, and turning the public against you.
e05: Taking the power back
An interview with Chris Smalls, the leader of the first successful union drive in Amazon's history. From May 2020, and very relevant today.
Tiny protest, big results
Last week, two activists glued themselves to a painting to protest climate change. It was smarter than you think.
Providing hope in the dark
Highlights of an inspiring interview I did with Miguel Duarte, the migrants rights activist who helped save 14,000 people... and faced 20 years in prison for it.
A contrarian campaign to vaccinate the planet
How can governments do a better job of persuading people to get vaccinated against COVID? I went through all the best practices I could find, and wrote it up.
Media activism: A Greek crisis story
A look inside two grassroots media campaigns, working on the frontline of a financial war.
Video: a behind-the-scenes look at a successful grassroots campaign
What we did and what we learned -- from an activism project that had an impact in only four weeks.
Successful activism works like this
A post-mortem of a recent, local campaign I worked on to save a piece of Portugal’s natural beauty from private development.
e04: The grassroots battle to eliminate COVID
A dive into how grassroots groups are changing how we tackle COVID, with Vicky van der Togt, founder of the Zero Covid Alliance.
Introducing Campaign Accelerator
A new project I’m working on to support targeted, local, grassroots campaigns.
e03: Creative protest and how to build a movement
An inspiring, hands-on interview with the activist Radomir Lazovic, one of the founders of Don’t Let Belgrade Drown, a political movement that’s making big waves (!) in Serbia.
e02: Exposing the far-right
What do you do, when your country is holding the biggest trial of a Nazi party since Nuremberg, and the media can’t be trusted to cover it properly? I speak to Antonis Bougias of the Golden Dawn Watch grassroots journalism project in Greece, to find out.