Blackbird Learning Circle – a base for community action We are forming a learning circle to create a basis for action groups. These could include: The learning circle is part of the Blackbird Community Project, here in Northampton, the overall aim of which is to build a proactive and non-hierarchical community. The project already includes…
Category: Theory
THE STATE WE’RE IN: discussion write-up
The session began with a presentation on many societal issues, including those faced by easily singled-out minorities such as refugees, travellers, queer people, disabled people, and the impoverished classes. Through our discussions, we continually highlighted how these issues feed off each other and how they are effectively impossible to tackle if viewed individually. The group…
USE YOUR VOICE – for youth
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences
How to organise a free foodshare
WHAT IS A FOODSHARE? A Foodshare is an event or organisation where food is shared for free. Foodshares are necessary in today’s society because the system we live under does not guarantee basic wellbeing for everyone, so we must support one other. Food can be sourced in various ways: INTRO This how-to is based on…
A guide for mentally surviving the cost-of-living crisis
The short survival manual created by squatters and eviction resisters to support anyone who wants to exercise their right to resist unjust system.
BC History: 1991
In June 1990 I was on a train coming home from the committal hearing of a pair of peace activists in Oxford Crown Court. I recognised the couple across the aisle, who had also been at the hearing, and we got chatting.