Tag Archives: Getting Active
Getting Active: Read it up!
In the current recession-hit times political media, especially in the form of the printed word, becomes an essential tool in the armoury of the radical both in communicating ideas and engaging with people generally. Below is a roundup of the latest editions of some of the more regular radical papers. Hereford Heckler With verve and [...]
Getting Active: Local it up
♦ West Glasgow Against Poverty (WestGAP), the long-established, independent, community-based anti-poverty charity opened its doors on Saturday 26th June to launch WestGAP 100, a new community fundraising initiative. Hundreds of people came to their Community Advice and Resource Centre in Partick, Glasgow to find out about the group, its activities and how they can contribute [...]
Getting Active: 2010 Election Special
Getting Active – Taking Action As we’ve seen the parliamentary process is anything but democratic. There is no way of holding politicians to account for their actions once elected. MP’s expenses scandal might have highlighted the greed and corruption inside Westminster but we can still only vote for another set of politicians, equally as greedy [...]
Getting Active: Keepin’ it local
♦ Five years after the initial national Community Action Gathering a second is being organised later this month in Nottingham. Invitations have been sent out to all radical, community-orientated local groups and individuals throughout the country to a gathering at the Sumac Social Centre on Saturday 27th March.
Getting Active: Revolting students
At the University of Sussex, Brighton 106 students took militant action and occupied the top floor of an on-campus building on Feb 8th against the threat of compulsory staff redundancies and course cuts. The occupiers strategically chose the conference centre room so as not to disrupt fellow students but rather to disrupt a “key part [...]
Getting Active: Football’s coming home
As reported elsewhere in Freedom football fans are becoming more vocal and more militant in their dissent against the corporate take over of the beloved game. The massive explosion in players wages and transfer fees, exorbitant ticket prices, introduction of corporate hospitality sponsorship deals, plus the celebrity lifestyles of the top players and profit-seeking owners [...]
Getting Active: Getting Organised
One of the more intriguing aspects of last year’s impressive Anarchist Movement Conference was the emerging realisation amongst serious anarchists that there was at last a recognisable potential for building a proper movement. To that end it inspired a re-assessment of how anarchists choose to organise with each other, how they work together, how they [...]
Getting Active: Social Centres
Anarchists have always sought to build open social environments – back in 1906 The Workers Friend Club, just down the road from Freedom, became the hub for the anarchist movement of Rudolph Rocker’s day and would regularly hold mass meetings, cultural events and late night weekend dances. Such autonomous spaces developed into the social centres [...]
Getting Active: Anarchist Student Groups
University campuses have always been fertile ground for the expression of political ideas and action, from the Paris university occupations in 1968 that pre-figured a general workers revolt, to last year’s uprising in Greece where campuses were used as a base to plan strategies, encourage involvement and mobilise the population against state repression. In the [...]
