#greenham — Public Fediverse posts
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Build it permissionlessly and let it loose
One of the uncomfortable truths of activism is that, given a choice between anarchism and anarchy, many anarchists choose anarchism. The ideology, identity, culture, meetings, and certainties feel safer than taking a genuinely risky step into the unknown of stateless liberty and self-organisation. It's easier to belong to the subculture than to build the social relationships and trust needed to live without the structures there critiquing. A lot of radical politics gets stuck at this point: […]https://hamishcampbell.com/build-it-permissionlessly-and-let-it-loose/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKoWKF3ktXI
Watching this video reminded me how much activist history gets distorted by sectarianism.
At places like #Greenham, divisions formed around the "colour" of the gates - different ideologies, identities, and political cultures. The trouble is that the loudest and most conflict-driven voices end up telling the history afterwards.
The people saying *"look at me"* get remembered, while the people saying *"don't look at me, I'm busy, look at the issue"* are usually too busy doing the actual work to document it.
This leaves us with a skewed activist memory, where internal drama becomes history and the slow, collective labour that made things happen fades into the background.
It's not just a problem of the past. We keep reproducing the same mess today.
#activism #GreenhamCommon #history #socialchange #OMN #stupidindividualism #openweb #makeinghistory
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#OnThisDay, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking #Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #PeaceProtests #Histodons
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📍: Slipway, Newbury Boat Co
ℹ️: slipway
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.4033037238305&mlon=-1.31309555961937#map=17/51.4033037238305/-1.31309555961937
📸: Photo by barryskeates on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/31059504@N08/13651313633#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #flickr #water #canon #reflections #boat #lock #berkshire #kennetandavon #avon #newbury #waterway #kennet #greenham #70d #canon70d
