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Introduction

Hannah Arendt - Protest gives us the public sphere, the space for conversations

Cynthia Weber - 6 Elements of Protest

  1. Discontent - what bugs you? what motivates you to protest? what are your core values and how does it differ from the current reality?
  2. Problem Articulation - how do you signify whats bugging you? how should things be so they won't bug you? there are two approaches -either link it to the bigger systems at work, the cultural, political, socio processes of the world that are the cause of the problem. or imagine what the "better world" could be like. how would your life be lived if everything was the way you wanted it to be? what would "the good life" be like?
  3. Action Plan - devise a goal and match it with strategies to achieve them. [NOTE: A PROTEST IS NOT A PROBLEM SOLVING PLAN, don't mix up the two]
  4. Implementation - do it
  5. Deal with resistance - is it from within or without? how will you deal with counter resistance or coopresistance? where does it come from and why?
  6. Declare Victory - think of how or why your protest is succcessful. write it down, make a postmortem, ensure that the legacy of your protest will persist after by condensing its message into something short, like a history. make it a legend, so that it can be retold and revied in the future as the seed of a story or a dream....
  • occupy movement - started with Adbusters, by people living economically precarious lives, articulated as "we are the 99%", prefiguring the world we want to live in by practicing Everyday Communism, and participatory democracy. implemented by occupying Zuccotti Park (close enough). good way of dealing with resistance. police brutality generated sympathy. created general assembly structure and working groups with rules to privilege the disadvantaged.

James Bridle - drones, freedom of information act

  • Reenactment of protest 10 years after the iraq protest.
  • Historiography to current events
  • Dronestagram
  • "Dark Matter"
  • FOI Requests
  • 'Disposition Matrix" - decides who gets droned
  • Stripping people of citizenship - Story of Mhd Sakr, killed by drones in Egypt.
  • Laser light from Drones
  • Legibility, invisibility of technology - rendering it visible makes it concrete. You have to write technology down, in a way it make policy concrete. It makes it more accessible in a way if you have the technical know-how to decode it.

David Benque - The New Weathermen

  • The New Weathermen
  • Synthetic biology, applying engineering techniques to bio - blue prints for the unknown
  • GMO debate, frankenfood, "right to know" - james delingpole watermelons, red on inside green on outside - polarised by left/right.
  • Beautiful trouble
  • Stephen Duncombe's Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy -- PDF
  • Center for Story-based strategy
  • Techno progressives vs Bio conservatives
  • biopunk: kitchencounter scientists hack the software of life
  • the new weathermen manifestor
    • biooccupy diesel
    • pirate pollen club
    • palmops
    • biolulz
    • overton window
    • open access, diy bio, comtelpro
    • "The answer to "No to Monsanto" is not "No to GMO" but rather "Open GMO".

How to make a Freedom of Information Act Request

From https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request/the-freedom-of-information-act

  • Anyone can make a request for information – there are no restrictions on your age, nationality or where you live.
  • Your request will be handled under the Data Protection Act if you ask for information about yourself.

You can request information from publicly funded organisations that work for the welfare of the whole population, eg:

  • government departments
  • local councils
  • schools, colleges and universities
  • health trusts, hospitals and doctors’ surgeries
  • publicly funded museums
  • the police
  • non-departmental public bodies, committees and advisory bodies
  • http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/contents

Possible Leads

Singapore Issues

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance
  • Josef Ng's protest of homosexuality > His arrest > Performance art ban > Loo Zihan's reenactment
  • Book as protest
  • Rock as protest
  • Tree as protest > Toa Payoh Tree?
  • The Haze - From Bloomberg: There are 17 timber firms and 15 palm oil firms, including Singapore-listed Wilmar International Ltd. (WIL), Kuala Lumpur-based Sime Darby Bhd. (SIME) and Singapore-based Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd., with land in areas affected by fires, T. Nirarta Samadhi, an Indonesian government spokesman, said June 21, citing data from the non-government World Resources Institute. Wilmar and Sime Darby have told Bloomberg News they have a zero-burning policy. There had been contradictory statements from Indonesian ministers and officials on whether Singapore-linked companies were engaged in illegal land clearing, Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs Chee Wee Kiong said in an e-mailed statement sent by Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday. Chee requested the Indonesian government clarify the statements or share evidence relating to any involvement by Singapore-linked companies, the ministry said in the statement. Indonesian government officials should not name companies they suspect of having caused the fires and instead let police investigate the matter, Yudhoyono said yesterday.

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The Methods of Nonviolent Action

Source: Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Vol. 2: The Methods of Nonviolent Action (Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1973).

Formal Statements:

  1. Public Speeches (Egypt; E; WA-USA)
  2. Letters of opposition or support
  3. Declarations by organizations and institutions (Egypt)
  4. Signed public statements (Egypt; Libya; Bahrain; E)
  5. Declarations of indictment and intention
  6. Group or mass petitions

Communications with a Wider Audience

  1. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols (Egypt; E; E; Libya; WI-USA; B; L; L; WI-USA)
  2. Banners, posters, and displayed communications (Egypt; Iraq; UK; WI-USA; WA-USA; ME-USA; Athens-GR; Bologna-IT; Albany, NY-USA)
  1. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books (Egypt; E; PA-USA; PA-USA; Madrid-ES; Barcelona-ES)
  2. Newspapers and journals (Libya; UK; Libya; WI-USA)
  3. Records, radio, and television (Egypt; E)
  4. Skywriting and earthwriting

Group Representations

  1. Deputations
  2. Mock awards
  3. Group lobbying (WI-USA)
  4. Picketing (US airports)
  5. Mock elections

Symbolic Public Acts

  1. Displays of flags and symbolic colors (Egypt; E)
  2. Wearing of symbols
  3. Prayer and worship (Egypt)
  4. Delivering symbolic objects (Egypt; Bahrein; Afghanistan; Spain)
  5. Protest disrobings
  6. Destruction of own property
  7. Symbolic lights
  8. Displays of portraits (Libya)
  9. Paint as protest (Egypt; E)
  10. New signs and names
  11. Symbolic sounds (UK)
  12. Symbolic reclamations (Egypt)
  13. Rude gestures (Egypt)

Pressures on Individuals

  1. "Haunting" officials GR
  2. Taunting officials (GR; Albany, NY-USA)
  3. Fraternization (Egypt; E; PA-USA; WI-USA)
  4. Vigils

Drama and Music

  1. Humorous skits and pranks (Bangles; E; UK; WI-USA; Spain)
  2. Performances of plays and music (WI-USA)
  3. Singing (Bangles; CA-USA BoA flash mob; DC-USA)

Processions

  1. Marches (Egypt; WI-USA; Yemen; OH-USA; LA-USA)
  2. Parades
  3. Religious processions
  4. Pilgrimages
  5. Motorcades

Honoring the Dead

  1. Political mourning (Bahrain)
  2. Mock funerals (Suez-E)
  3. Demonstrative funerals (Bahrain; B)
  4. Homage at burial places

Public Assemblies

  1. Assemblies of protest or support (Egypt; Libya; Iraq; Yemen; UK; UK; WI-USA; WI-USA; Libya; UK; L; L; US airports; Greece; PA-USA; MA-USA)
  2. Protest meetings (#occupywallstreet US).
  3. Camouflaged meetings of protest
  4. Teach-ins (Philadelphia, PA).

Withdrawal and Renunciation

  1. Walk-outs (Stoughton, WI)
  2. Silence
  3. Renouncing honors
  4. Turning one's back (USA)

THE METHODS OF SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION

Ostracism of Persons

  1. Social boycott
  2. Selective social boycott (USA)
  3. Lysistratic nonaction (USA VA; Spain)
  4. Excommunication
  5. Interdict

Noncooperation with Social Events, Customs, and Institutions

  1. Suspension of social and sports activities
  2. Boycott of social affairs
  3. Student strike
  4. Social disobedience
  5. Withdrawal from social institutions

Withdrawal from the Social System

  1. Stay-at-home
  2. Total personal noncooperation
  3. "Flight" of workers
  4. Sanctuary
  5. Collective disappearance
  6. Protest emigration (hijrat)

THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: (1) ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS

Actions by Consumers

  1. Consumers' boycott
  2. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods
  3. Policy of austerity (USA)
  4. Rent withholding
  5. Refusal to rent USA
  6. National consumers' boycott
  7. International consumers' boycott

Action by Workers and Producers

  1. Workmen's boycott
  2. Producers' boycott

Action by Middlemen

  1. Suppliers' and handlers' boycott

Action by Owners and Management

  1. Traders' boycott
  2. Refusal to let or sell property
  3. Lockout
  4. Refusal of industrial assistance
  5. Merchants' "general strike"

Action by Holders of Financial Resources

  1. Withdrawal of bank deposits (USA; WI-USA)
  2. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments (Greece)
  3. Refusal to pay debts or interest (USA; USA)
  4. Severance of funds and credit
  5. Revenue refusal (USA)
  6. Refusal of a government's money

Action by Governments

  1. Domestic embargo
  2. Blacklisting of traders
  3. International sellers' embargo
  4. International buyers' embargo
  5. International trade embargo

THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: (2) THE STRIKE

Symbolic Strikes

  1. Protest strike
  2. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)

Agricultural Strikes

  1. Peasant strike
  2. Farm Workers' strike

Strikes by Special Groups

  1. Refusal of impressed labor
  2. Prisoners' strike
  3. Craft strike
  4. Professional strike (WI-USA; WI-USA)

Ordinary Industrial Strikes

  1. Establishment strike
  2. Industry strike (Egypt)
  3. Sympathetic strike

Restricted Strikes

  1. Detailed strike
  2. Bumper strike
  3. Slowdown strike
  4. Working-to-rule strike
  5. Reporting "sick" (sick-in)
  6. Strike by resignation
  7. Limited strike
  8. Selective strike

Multi-Industry Strikes

  1. Generalized strike
  2. General strike (Egypt)

Combination of Strikes and Economic Closures

  1. Hartal
  2. Economic shutdown

THE METHODS OF POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION

Rejection of Authority

  1. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance
  2. Refusal of public support
  3. Literature and speeches advocating resistance

Citizens' Noncooperation with Government

  1. Boycott of legislative bodies
  2. Boycott of elections
  3. Boycott of government employment and positions
  4. Boycott of government depts., agencies, and other bodies
  5. Withdrawal from government educational institutions
  6. Boycott of government-supported organizations
  7. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
  8. Removal of own signs and placemarks
  9. Refusal to accept appointed officials
  10. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions

Citizens' Alternatives to Obedience

  1. Reluctant and slow compliance
  2. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision
  3. Popular nonobedience
  4. Disguised disobedience
  5. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse (WI-USA)
  6. Sitdown (Egypt)
  7. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation
  8. Hiding, escape, and false identities
  9. Civil disobedience of "illegitimate" laws (Egypt; E)

Action by Government Personnel

  1. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides
  2. Blocking of lines of command and information
  3. Stalling and obstruction
  4. General administrative noncooperation
  5. Judicial noncooperation
  6. Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents
  7. Mutiny (Egypt; E)

Domestic Governmental Action

  1. Quasi-legal evasions and delays
  2. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units (IN-USA)

International Governmental Action

  1. Changes in diplomatic and other representations
  2. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events
  3. Withholding of diplomatic recognition
  4. Severance of diplomatic relations
  5. Withdrawal from international organizations
  6. Refusal of membership in international bodies
  7. Expulsion from international organizations

THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION

Psychological Intervention

  1. Self-exposure to the elements (#occupywallstreet US)
  2. The fast
    1. Fast of moral pressure
    2. Hunger strike
    3. Satyagrahic fast
  3. Reverse trial
  4. Nonviolent harassment

Physical Intervention

  1. Sit-in (Yemen; UK; DC-USA (Keystone XL))
  2. Stand-in
  3. Ride-in
  4. Wade-in
  5. Mill-in
  6. Pray-in
  7. Nonviolent raids
  8. Nonviolent air raids
  9. Nonviolent invasion (UK)
  10. Nonviolent interjection
  11. Nonviolent obstruction (Athens-GR; Barcelona-ES; Athens-GR; Albany, NY-USA).
  12. Nonviolent occupation (Bahrain; B; UK; WI-USA; B; B; WI-USA; WI-USA; WA-USA; CA-USA BoA flash mob; PA-USA "play in"; DC-USA; PA-USA (Philly Uncut); Spain; (Athens-GR; Bologna-IT; Athens-GR; Cairo-E).

Social Intervention

  1. Establishing new social patterns (Egypt; E; E; Bahrain; WI-USA; WI-USA; PA-USA; Spain; Madrid-ES; Madrid-ES; Athens-GR; Athens-GR; (#occupywallstreet US))
  2. Overloading of facilities (#occupywallstreet US)
  3. Stall-in
  4. Speak-in
  5. Guerrilla theater
  6. Alternative social institutions (Egypt)
  7. Alternative communication system (Egypt; E; Libya; WI-USA; L; L; OH-USA; Arab world; Madrid-ES; (#occupywallstreet US))

Economic Intervention

  1. Reverse strike
  2. Stay-in strike
  3. Nonviolent land seizure
  4. Defiance of blockades
  5. Politically motivated counterfeiting
  6. Preclusive purchasing
  7. Seizure of assets
  8. Dumping
  9. Selective patronage
  10. Alternative markets
  11. Alternative transportation systems (Uganda)
  12. Alternative economic institutions

Political Intervention

  1. Overloading of administrative systems
  2. Disclosing identities of secret agents
  3. Seeking imprisonment
  4. Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws (Egypt; E; WI-USA; DC-USA)
  5. Work-on without collaboration
  6. Dual sovereignty and parallel government (Egypt; E; E; E)
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