I missed writing last Sunday when I was going to follow on from the previous item on effective action by looking specifically at protests, in the sense of organised marches, and petitions. So here goes.
A lot of angst is spilt in some circles about the morality of direct action and when and whether it should be branded as non-violent (NVDA - a nice safe sounding acronym) or even whether direct, presumably as opposed to indirect, action can ever be justified.
Read more: Direct, Indirect, Violent, non-Violent : or simply effective
Elsewhere Keith Farnish has written about the Tools of Disconnection in his book "Underminers" (available online here and worth a read). The Tools of Disconnection as Keith outlined them in his earlier book "Time's Up" refer to the forces which industrial civilization deploys to keep its subjects from Connecting with themselves, the people they directly depend on and interact with, and the natural ecosystem(s) of which they are a part and which support their existence.
So given that the GP is more or less distracted by, and conflicted about, the priorities of a hundred different important topics and unable to set a clear direction any more, perhaps we need to go back to first principles and start again with a new movement that is once again focused on the existential crisis which threatens to extinguish the makers of the anthropocene even as they declare the new epoch open.
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