A celebration of nonviolent protest and an investigation into the tactics, effectiveness and challenges facing activists in the UK and around the world. Shami Chakrabarti (Director of Liberty) says in the film “Without dissent, without protest..democracy will stultify, democracy will die.” Caroline Lucas (Green MP) says, “We have to be prepared for peaceful direct...
This camp has been temporarily postponed to avoid a clash with ROYAL AIR FORCE WADDINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW. New date to be announced ASAP Helen John will be at RAF Waddington setting up a permanent peace/protest camp on Saturday 30th June 2012, in response to the expected arrival of drone pilots who will ‘remotely pilot’...
Brian Martin is a scholar of science and society who writes with a clear and frank voice. His writing about war, peace, and social change often looks at the inside, underside and backside of nonviolent action for practical, proven insights to increase the odds that your campaign will be successful. Brian’s latest publication,...
With so many government appointed ‘heroes’ filling our lives these days (all anyone’s got to do it seems is put on one government uniform or another or go to Afghanistan to sit about eating pizza for a couple of weeks to fall into the cynically trumpeted hero department of society), honoured with ‘welcome home’...
Six activists have barricaded themselves into meeting rooms on two floors of British Gas offices in Staines, Middlesex, as part of the ‘Winter Warm-Up’ weekend called by the campaign group Fuel Poverty Action. British Gas is being targeted as one of the Big Six energy companies making profits out of rising energy bills. It...
Protesters, abled bodied and disabled protest over cuts and changes to financial support (The Welfare Reform Bill) which will see them targeted and suffer hardship. Wheelchair users chained their wheelchairs together to blockade traffic as our government keeps pouring billions into amoral and questionable offense projects which are passed off as so called defence,...
As early progress in Iceland shows since the banking collapse, the 21st century will be the century of the common people, of us The Dutch minister of internal affairs said at a speech during free press day this year: “Law-making is like a sausage, no one really wants to know what is...
Large sections of the population, particularly the most vulnerable, are being forced to pay for the reckless mistakes of the banks, either through government cuts or recession-related redundancies. The banks continue to perpetuate a culture of high risk and pay large bonuses to their top employees, in some cases with taxpayers’ money. In many...
