In the Streets

For those of you not content with conventional protest, the NIO Collective  has put together other ways to protest.

It is up to you to do research and determine if these are safe and legal forms of protest in your area.

We do not encouraging you to break the law or put anyone’s safety at risk.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND CREATIVE RESISTANCE

by the NIO Collective

I. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

For those who seek to abandon conventional protest models which limit people to holding signs and chanting in conditions approved by police. All actions should be recorded and local media should be alerted. The idea is to be disruptive, cause disturbances, and breach the public consciousness. See the list of resources below to help find a target.

1) Chain yourself outside your local abuser and disrupt their business.

2) Stage a die in. More than one person is needed to stage this action. At least one activist lies down on the steps of an abuser as if they were dead — silent & immobile — and another needs to hold signs and take pictures.

3) It’s time to take this war right into the classrooms where sociopathic professors teach vivisection to their students. Enter their classrooms, disrupt their lecture, and take over until you are removed. Read one or two succinct paragraphs about the misery and torment the animals endure.

4) Create a human blockade to shut down an abuser.

5) For comprehensive information about civil disobedience, see the ACT UP Civil Disobedience Index.

II. CREATIVE RESISTANCE

1) Start a Critical Mass bike ride.

2) Take inspiration from the Chipko Movement or the Gulabi Gang.

III. ALLIANCE POLITICS

1) 13 Ways to Promote Alliance Politics: thirteen initial suggestions for building the diversified and unified global movement that alone can dismantle the systems of oppression that have devastated biodiversity, triggered ecological collapse, and thwarted human potential for over ten thousand years ─ which is quite long enough. We enjoin those interested in enlivening possibilities for change through a markedly different theory and politics to read, learn, think, grow, and expand their frames of reference until problems and potential solutions come into focus. In this evolutionary process, we mediate theory and practice, such that we learn not only by reading but also by doing; not in solitary confinement, but in dialogue with others.

2) Deep Vegan Outreach: a radical new model, vision, and approach, which we are calling “deep vegan outreach.” We have major projects underway, such as involve producing a “social cookbook” which emphasizes the crucial role veganism can play in healing the earth and will be a vehicle for reaching communities hitherto ignored by the vegan movement

3) Planting the Seeds of Deep Veganism: We need to move away from consumerism and the systems that reinforce speciesism and oppression. In addition, gardening can be an excellent way of bringing people together in the community and sharing vegan principles. It seems so much more organic to do outreach with members of the community already engaged in this common project rather than evangelizing with leaflets to other suburban whites.

RESOURCES TO FIND A LOCAL TARGET

Flashpoint I: Animal Research Labs

Flashpoint II: Lab Animal Suppliers

Flashpoint III: Slaughterhouses

Flashpoint IV: Fur Farms

The Fur Farm Intelligence Project

The Final Nail

PrimateLabs.com