I personally think the decision to obey lockdown laws and switch to online meetings and actions is what killed the momentum of XR after the first year and a half in which I was involved (obviously there were other things too - the horizontalism which led to/ failed to prevent the Canning Town tube action being a large one). There should have been no expectation for immuno-compromised folks to do anything in person, but the rest of us shouldn't have collapsed into anxious kowtowing liberalism imho - and I say that as someone who believes in the existence of COVID and the relative efficacy of the vaccines [certainly the first time I had it, pre-vaccine, it wiped me out and fucked my breathing; times after the vaccine, it was far less severe to experience].
"Foster’s marriage fell apart. For turning off valves on an oil pipeline, he was sentenced to one year in prison and two years probation. His intractability, however righteous given the exigencies of the climate catastrophe, cost him the life he had built and caused irreparable harm."
This speaks to my ambivalence about Palestine Action as a teacher... I was quite fortunate to have my case thrown ot last time I was arrested for protesting. ergle bergle.
I personally think the decision to obey lockdown laws and switch to online meetings and actions is what killed the momentum of XR after the first year and a half in which I was involved (obviously there were other things too - the horizontalism which led to/ failed to prevent the Canning Town tube action being a large one). There should have been no expectation for immuno-compromised folks to do anything in person, but the rest of us shouldn't have collapsed into anxious kowtowing liberalism imho - and I say that as someone who believes in the existence of COVID and the relative efficacy of the vaccines [certainly the first time I had it, pre-vaccine, it wiped me out and fucked my breathing; times after the vaccine, it was far less severe to experience].
"Foster’s marriage fell apart. For turning off valves on an oil pipeline, he was sentenced to one year in prison and two years probation. His intractability, however righteous given the exigencies of the climate catastrophe, cost him the life he had built and caused irreparable harm."
This speaks to my ambivalence about Palestine Action as a teacher... I was quite fortunate to have my case thrown ot last time I was arrested for protesting. ergle bergle.