Organizing in Politics: Lessons from Italy, Australia, and United Kingdom [LCN Event Recording – 2022]

Organizing in Politics: Lessons from Italy, Australia, and United Kingdom [LCN Event Recording – 2022]

Dan Firth, Federica Vinci, Leading Change Network, Stephen Donnelly

Type

Videos
Region

Global
Practice

Coaching, Public narrative, Relationship building, Team structure, Strategy, Action
Language

English

A Leading Change Network event recording about bringing organizing into politics. Panellists shared and reflected on what they had learnt.

Introduction

With elections happening across the world this year, what does it mean to center community organizing in politics? On October 12th, 2022 we explored on this important question with our diverse panel of organizers –

Stephen Donnelly from Australia, founder of Dunn Street and former Assistant Secretary for the Australian Labor Party in Victoria and founder of Labor’s Community Action Network
Federica Vinci from Italy, co-founder and former President of Volt Italia, currently serving as Deputy Mayor of Isernia, Italy
Dan Firth from the United Kingdom, Director of Campaigns and Engagement at New Economics Foundation and former Director of Community Organising at the Labour Party

They shared and reflected on their rich experiences around bringing organizing into politics. The session was moderated by Benedict Hugosson from the Swedish Social Democrats. From challenges in navigating resistance to organizing to bridging community campaigns and elections to using organizing to identify and develop grassroots leadership – there was a lot of lessons and questions that left us all with hunger to learn and share more!

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Year: 2022
Author: Dan Firth, Federica Vinci, Leading Change Network, Stephen Donnelly
Tags: Lessons learned_Reviews_Reflections_Debriefs, Organizing, Political participation
Access : Member-only
Topics : Political and electoral organizing
Regions : Global

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