If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
As mandated the motion “protect students” in June guild council, I helped facilitate two training events for students. One was activist legal training teaching students about police powers to take your name, date of birth and residence, to stop and search you the requirements of it, the ramifications of being arrested and ways to avoid getting arrested common mistakes and police tricks. The other one was methods of peaceful resistance how to use non compliance tactics to resist police force and violence, how make a difference and avoid getting hurt. The sessions where run by a woman who has devoted her life to non violent tactics as methods for change and who works for the “activist legal project” an oxford based NGO. Both of these sessions can be run again for your group and if you are interested contact me at e.bauer@guild.bham.ac.uk

Much of the information about legal issues can also be found here on the activist legal projects website http://www.activistslegalproject.org.uk/

“The power that corporations and governments have over our society is maintained through oppression and through the continuing co-operation of groups and individuals. The withdrawal of that co-operation restricts or dissolves their control. Put another way, their power depends on our continuing obedience; when we refuse to obey, their power begins to crumble.” –activist legal project