Building genuine resilience to repression If your security culture is isolating you and your group from the wider movement or your allies, it may be making you less safe, rather than safer. Information security is important - but narrow interpretations of ‘security culture’ can put activists at greater risk and hamper
Two large Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) cinemas were packed out for the Melbourne premiere of Everyone to Kenmure Street, a Glaswegian story of how a community spontaneously mobilised to block an early morning deportation of two Muslim neighbours. From the quick-thinking person who slid underneath the immigration van,
A Community Organiser Principle A little community organiser principle of mine has been "never cancel a meeting". I don't know if it came from Saul Alinsky or whether I picked it up somewhere amorphously, but I recall this principle every single time someone cancels or moves
It’s everywhere. It’s now a ‘Weed of National Significance’
If One Nation is coming to Victoria as an institutionalised political force, there might be some lessons to draw from the Kennett era. Here are some of them.
Whistleblowers can shake and undermine governments, industries, and major institutions. Even minor leaks can provide vital intel and form a major boon for a campaign. Every bit of encouragement, support and protection we can provide as a movement is worth it.
Each time I have heard this massacre list something different strikes me. This year I heard of a massacre at Oxley in central Victoria. More than two hundred people were killed. It shocked me how large this number was and that I hadn’t known of it before.
The template for repression is very old, but the political context for surveillance and repression is always changing. As activists we need to analyse and understand this context.