Resources

Direct Action Resources

Preparing for action - includes info on support systems - affinity groups and buddying, roles on actions, safety and fashion tips.

Action Planning - covers the why, what, who, where and when of action planning, roles and tasks for planning a successful action.

Street Actions - covers communicating, staying safe, roles on actions, safety and support on actions.

Affinity Groups - covers what they are, why work in them, how to create them and roles on affinity group actions

Practical Protest Techniques - includes ideas for using your body and a few simple tools including D-locks, armtubes, tripods to create effective blockades.

Road Raging Top tips for wrecking road building: comprehensive anti roads protest guide (also applicable to many other types of action).

Delia Smith's Basic Blockading - very useful guide to blockading tactics with arm tubes, D-locks and tripods and lots of essential safety advice.

ACT UP New York - has resources for direct action including articles on nonviolence, affinity groups and planning a campaign.

Starhawk's Activism Resources includes briefings on nonviolent direct action, strategy, consensus, medical, solidarity, anti-oppression.

Guide to Public Order Situations - a basic guide to staying safe and surviving a public order situation, including info on policing tactics and how to deal with them.

Peace News' - tools section of the website includes articles on dealing with fences, organising mass actions, making giant puppets and 'improving' billboards.

Bodyhammer - tactics and self defence for the modern protestor a guide to making and using shields and body armour on the streets and street tactics and formations.

Schnews DIY guide - has lots of 'how to' guides for direct activists collected from a number of different sources including how to do office work, how to win campaigns.

Activist Trauma Group - includes info on dealing with the effects of police brutality, burnout and post traumatic stress disorder.

Black Cross Health Collective - basic first aid information for activists including preparing for a demo, tear gas and pepper spray, aftercare.

Protection against tear gas and pepper spray 101 - more information on dealing with teargas and pepper spray.

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