Resources for Action

Direct Action - A Handbook
22 Mar 2011 - 14:12

Contents of this handbook

1.Why take direct action

2. Ideas for nonviolent direct action

3. How to plan an action

4. Affinity groups

5.The buddy system

6. Roles during actions

Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns
23 Mar 2011 - 13:49

Social change doesn't just happen. It's the result of the work of committed people striving for a world of justice and peace. This work gestates in groups or cells of activists, in discussions, in training sessions, in reflecting on previous experiences, in planning, in experimenting and in learning from others. Preparing ourselves for our work for social justice is key to its success.

This handbook shares what people have already developed in different contexts.

mass action handbook

24 Mar 2011 - 10:21

going to a mass mobilization offers activists an opportunity to briefly live in the world we want to see. we have democratic spokescouncils, we share jobs, we solve our own problems, we provide for each other, we share skills, we learn skills...we spend those few days in participatory living on a mass level, not solely on a local level.

Nuclear New Build and Hinkley – Important update from South-West Against Nuclear (SWAN) and Stop Nuclear Power Network (SNPN)

31 Aug 2011 - 14:03

Things are hotting up with the government and nuclear industry’s plans for nu-killer new build in Britain. If we want to put the brakes on their insane plans to build a fleet of new potential Fukushimas at up to eight sites around England and Wales, we need to get active TODAY!

BETTER ACTIVE TODAY THAN RADIOACTIVE TOMORROW!

Here are a few ideas for getting involved. We’re sure you’ll have more of your own: feel free to share and discuss!

Get informed

You’ll find a brief summary of where things are at with nuclear new build in Britain after the action suggestions below.

Recipes for Disaster: an anarchist cookbook
22 Mar 2011 - 16:42

"This is a handbook for direct action. It's not the only- there are thousands: every gardner's guide is a direct action handbook, as is every cookbook. Any action that side-steps regulations, representatives, and authorities to accomplish goas is direct action. In a society in which political power, economic capital, and social control are centralized in teh hands of an elite, certain forms of direct action are discouraged, to say the least; this book is about those in particular, for anyoen who wants to take control of her life and accept responsibility for her part in determining the fat of humanity.

South West Against Nuclear - Blockade Success
6 Oct 2011 - 09:49