I’m sorry that my phd in history is not good enough in talking about how history is produced. Feel free to disagree, but the reality is that we don’t know what will work until time has passed and we can connect the dots. I get that’s not an exciting and interesting answer, but it’s, very simply, true.
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I sincerely apologise. It was never my intention to diminish you or your profession and opinions and that is my error.
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Is there some sort of manual on how to stage the perfect protest?
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ACT 3 is a variant on a popular Act of Dissent, namely this: the epitome
of good manners in all decent homes is, upon receipt of junk mail
containing a Freepost pre-addressed envelope, to a) insert the contents of
the junk mail into the prepaid envelope, and b) post it back to the fuckers
that sent it. This is based on the sound logic that if someone sends you
their rubbish you are entitled to send it back, at their expense.
My variation on the practised etiquette on receipt of unwanted missives
is based on the idea that if someone sends me rubbish I am entitled to
send it back AND some of my own.Foxtons estate agent sent me a glossy card inviting me to sell my home;
I sent back Weetabix. This was accompanied with a note that the company
should regard this as a request to be removed from their mailing list.
A motor company sent me half a tree’s worth of promotional cack;
I sent back an out-of-date tin of sardines.
Things took a turn for the weird when I received a note from the
postman explaining a letter addressed to me did not have the correct
postage on it and if I wished to receive the letter I should go to the post
office, pay a small fine and the value of the postage. Which I did. The
letter was a leaflet from Will’s Art Warehouse.
Enraged at paying for a promotional leaflet, I inserted a large unwanted
hardback book into a Jiffy bag and posted it to Will’s Art Warehouse.
Without a stamp. I have not heard from Will since.On discussing this Act with some old anarcho-squatters from the ’70s,
they revealed that they would post breeze blocks to people they disliked,
who, on receipt of the stampless package, had to pay for the delivery at
the other end.
One day later I approach the counter staff at my local post office, who
know me well, with a trial breeze block wrapped in brown paper.
‘No, Mark,’ they say as I offer them the package. ‘If you want to send
this to Mr Gove, you will need a stamp.’
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If there was, it would probably be banned.
I have a couple of recent books, “Practical Radicals”, and “How To Win An Information War”, which I hope may offer some hints.
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Doing the thing that has serious consequences would seem to be a more serious statement of their dedication to a cause, no?
Standing on a road? What’s the point of that?
You want martyrs? Why?
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While JSO have caused closures of many urban roads, blocking the A303 (main route to Exeter) would be fraught with risks. From memory I cannot think of any gantries near that stretch although there are some bridges not too far away (as per their Dartford Crossing protest), and that looked fairly risky to me too.
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