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Tom Liacas (he-him)

Tom Liacas (he-him)

Supporting grassroots justice-oriented activists around the world: A year’s worth of learnings

Learn about the Global Grassroots Support Network’s membership and activities as well as the top challenges facing grassroots activists

7 min readSep 5, 2023

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Supporting grassroots justice-oriented activists around the world: A year’s worth of learnings

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Tom Liacas (he-him)

So you’re funding everything except climate activism.. How’s that working out for you?

Supporting activities like research, GR and comms has not gotten us very far. Funding movement-building will enable bolder policy changes.

5 min readMay 16, 2023

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So you’re funding everything except climate activism.. How’s that working out for you?

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Tom Liacas (he-him)

The “making of” the 2019 climate moment and how to make the next one a lot bigger

How can funders, unions and NGOs, best participate in and support social movements before, during and after movement moments?

6 min readFeb 23, 2023

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An image showing the cover of the Building the Whirlwind report, published by the Broadbent Institute

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Tom Liacas (he-him)

Blueprints for Change: New focus in 22

Learn about our pivot to share best practices among those supporting grassroots activist groups working on climate and social justice

3 min readMar 27, 2022

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Blueprints for Change: New focus in 22

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Tom Liacas (he-him)

Lessons from the “dark side” for social/climate justice activism

11 min readAug 23, 2021

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Lessons from the “dark side” for social/climate justice activism

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Tom Liacas (he-him)

Systems-change guides at a time when we really need to change the system

The “crisis within a crisis” moment we are living through right now, rising up against white supremacy and anti-black racism in the midst…

2 min readJun 30, 2020

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Systems-change guides at a time when we really need to change the system

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Tom Liacas (he-him)

What’s the difference between “distributed” and “decentralized” organizing?

Something I wrote to help clear up the differences between “distributed” and “decentralized” organizing, a hot topic in progressive…

4 min readNov 30, 2019

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What’s the difference between “distributed” and “decentralized” organizing?

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Tom Liacas (he-him)

Why it’s important to measure the impact of people-powered advocacy

If you can’t measure it, it won’t get properly funded. One of the things holding back people-powered campaigns that can be solved quickly

4 min readSep 11, 2019

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Why it’s important to measure the impact of people-powered advocacy

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Tom Liacas (he-him)

Network-building to scale up progressive power: Six months’ worth of learnings

Back in April of 2018, with the help of an initial crew of volunteer bottom-liners — mostly seasoned campaigners themselves — we launched…

5 min readOct 31, 2018

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Network-building to scale up progressive power: Six months’ worth of learnings

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Tom Liacas (he-him)

Introducing… Blueprints for Change

For the last 2 years, as I did trainings on advocacy campaign innovation across the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia, I kept hearing…

4 min readApr 18, 2018

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Introducing… Blueprints for Change

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Tom Liacas (he-him)

Tom Liacas (he-him)

Power builder for justice-oriented movements. Founded: Blueprints for Change, Climate Justice Organizing HUB, Global Grassroots Support Network.

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