Nuclear Waste Shipment Meets Massive Resistance in Germany – Skyler Simmons (2006)

1990-2010, Blockade/Barricade, Date, Disruptive Spaces, Occupation, Tactics of Disruption, The 'Natural World'

An article, found in the January-February 2007 issue of the Earth First! Journal, details the diversity of tactics French and German farmers, students, environmental activists, and anarchists, among others took in November of 2006 in an attempt to shut down a nuclear waste shipment traveling between the two countries. Sit-ins, erections of burning barricades, parked tractors in the path of the train were some of the tactics employed, in addition to actions taken to derail the police guarding the route, ultimately delaying the shipment and increasing nuclear waste transportation costs.

Newsletter by the Free Speech Movement (November 10, 1964)

1946-1989, Date, Disruptive Spaces, Institutions, Students, Subjectives of Refusal

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. Students protested the ban of on-campus political activities and asserted their right to free speech and academic freedom. This is a newsletter from the FSM published November 10th, 1964.

Newsletter by the Free Speech Movement (November 2, 1964)

1946-1989, Date, Disruptive Spaces, Institutions, Students, Subjectives of Refusal

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. Students protested the ban of on-campus political activities and asserted their right to free speech and academic freedom. This is a newsletter from the FSM published November 2nd, 1964.

Newsletter by the Free Speech Movement (October 20, 1964)

1946-1989, Date, Disruptive Spaces, Institutions, Students, Subjectives of Refusal

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. Students protested the ban of on-campus political activities and asserted their right to free speech and academic freedom. This is a newsletter from the FSM published October 20th, 1964.

Newsletter From the Free Speech Movement (October 9 1964)

1946-1989, Date, Disruptive Spaces, Institutions, Students, Subjectives of Refusal

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. Students protested the ban of on-campus political activities and asserted their right to free speech and academic freedom. This is a newsletter from the FSM published October 9th, 1964.

“The Combat is Also Ours!” – Paris (May 1968)

1946-1989, Date, Students, Subjectives of Refusal, Workers

This document, written by the Parti Socialiste Unifié in May 1968, explains the unity between the struggles of workers and students.

“because the student’s struggle against the bourgeois university is the same as that of the workers against the capitalist regime… because only the unified action of students, workers and farmers can allow the popular movement to realize its final goal: the establishment of a power in the service of workers.”

“We are not a movement of an -ism” – Paris (May 1968)

1946-1989, Capitalism, Date, Defining the Enemy, Disruptive Spaces, Students, Subjectives of Refusal, Urban Spaces, Workers

In this document, students and workers in Paris in May 1968 explain that reforms are not enough. Destruction and permanent revolution is necessary for the people to prevail.

We currently live in a pre-revolutionary time, hence one of destruction. This permanent struggle, engine of all true progress, will arrive at the revolution, a positive reality, but in no way definitive, for there is no established revolution. And so we say that THE REVOLUTION WILL BE PERMANENT OR IT WILL NOT BE AT ALL.

Workers, Students! – Paris (May 1968)

1946-1989, Capitalism, Date, Defining the Enemy, Occupation, Students, Subjectives of Refusal, Tactics of Disruption, Workers

This document, written during the events in Paris during May 1968, calls for students and workers to continue the resistance, continue the occupations, and keep their power.

“We must continue to the very end!

We occupy the faculties, the offices, the factories!

We will stay there!

Occupy Wall Street – Students (2011)

2011-Present, Capitalism, Date, Defining the Enemy, Disruptive Spaces, Occupation, Students, Subjectives of Refusal, Tactics of Disruption, Urban Spaces

This document declares the occupation of student, university spaces during Occupy Wall Street.

“We join a long tradition of student activism and struggle. We the indebted and the future unemployed and underemployed stand committed to this movement for our collective lives.”

SDS Fire (1969)

1946-1989, Consciousness Raising, Date, Subjectives of Refusal, Tactics of Disruption, Workers

On December 6, 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) published these writings. They cover a variety of topics including revolution, military conquest, and justice. It is a deep critique of the United States in which it sentences the United States government “to death.” Additionally, it identifies other enemies such as capitalism and imperialism. Overall, they aim to destroy bourgeois consciousness and create new revolutionary ways of living.

During the 1960’s the Amerikan government was on trial for crimes against the people of the world. We now find the government guilty and sentence it to death in the streets.