Aboveground organizers will need to facilitate practical experimentation by belowground militants, who in turn must cultivate zones of indistinction from the broader, legal movement ~ Lake Effect Collective The Democratic National Convention descended on Chicago during the last week of August, bringing with it swarms of police and politicians who quickly rendered the city uninhabitable.
Tag: Activism
Sticking your claim
Stickering may be limited as a means of changing minds, but its role in the opening up physical space is underappreciated
Birmingham Uni bosses preferred court to dialogue with solidarity camp
In our third article from Palestine solidarity campers, the the Student and Staff Encampment Coalition write about their two months at the Univerity of Birmingham campus. Other articles in this series: On the 11th of July, at 5am we were evicted from our encampment on the University of Birmingham (UoB) campus. We were made to
Trans Youth Occupy Department of Education
Fourteen trans activists from the Trans Kids Deserve Better, all aged 18 or under, have occupied the Department for Education’s (DfE) Westminster headquarters to protest for “the right to a safe and inclusive education, and the rights of trans youth and adults”. Besides the occupation, hundreds of people have demonstrated outside the building in solidarity
The extreme broadness of ‘extremism’
Just Stop Oil are being branded “fanatics” for disruptive actions whose like hardly raised an eyebrow a decade ago
Infiltration and what we can do about it
Every few years, the issue of infiltration into anarchist and activist groups becomes a topic of conversation again. Most recently it has been the journalist Max Parry, targeting Palestine Action. Journalists are the least of the threats against us – the list includes informers, corporate spies and the police. Anyone campaigning for justice or change
Where are the crip Utopias?
Crips are excluded on the sole basis that they cannot conform to the ableist ideal of an activist
The herbal solidarity project resisting state oppression
Freedom introduces its new PROFILE category, where we will focus on people or organisations; we begin with activist Nicole Rose.
Hundreds of thousands back on the streets for Gaza
Today’s Gaza demo was massive, with only 9 arrests.
Earth First! winter moot 2024
9th-11th February at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham.