Making Waves #19 Winter 2007 | Turning the Tide

Making Waves #19 Winter 2007

Making Waves is our periodic journal. It contains a range of features, usually topical and specially commissioned. Many contributors are involved or associated with Turning the Tide. Here you can read current and past issues.

 

Making Waves #19 Winter 2007

 

Social change work falls into three broad categories: reform, revolution and building the constructive alternative. Turning the Tide works in all three areas, and in this issue of Making Waves we focus on nonviolent direct action.

 

page 2, Camp for climate change action 2007 – recounts the slow but steady progress of a community of activists agitating for change and promoting awareness about climate change

page 4, Creative sollutions to climate camp clamp-downs - one activist banned by the police from the climate camp shares her experience of trying to understand 'the other side' and still get inside

 page 7, Naked protest against Trident - a (small) group of cyclist protesters bare (ha!) their feelings about about nuclear weapons

page 8, Towards ending the arms fairs at the Excel Centre and anywhere else - reports on on-going grassroots campaigning against Defence Systems & Equipment exhibition held regularly in London

page 10, Something that has inspired me this month ... - an RPs reflects about the impact a book about Fair Trade has had on her consumption habits and conversations with neighbours

page 11, CD review - 'The Tide is Turning' by Seize the Day

 

 

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