-
Personal resilience
-
Attitudes
- Preparedness
- Scenario planning
-
Lifestyle choices
- Debt free/financially resilient
-
Physical
- Self defence knowledge & skill
- Fitness
-
Self Care
- High self esteem
- Healing awareness
- Burnout awareness
- Optimum nourishment
- Time off/rest
-
Support infrastructure(s)
-
Acute & post trauma support
- Debriefs & check-ins
- Medics
-
Support for friends & family impacted
- Financial
- Emotional
- Internationalism
-
Prisoner support
- Supporting friends & family to visit
- Animals/rehoming
- Printing PSOs/paperwork help
-
Establishing support groups
-
Examples
- Vegan Prisoner Support Group
- Practical help/nutrition
- Animal Rights Prisoner Support, ARPS
- ALF Supporters Group
- Anarchist Black Cross Groups
- Bristol Defendent Solidarity
- Letter writing
-
Underground Support
- Money
- Safe houses
- Friendship & solidarity
- Avenues for expression e.g. zines, communiques
-
Movements for existence
- Food
- Shelter e.g. squatting, housing coops
- Health & medicine e.g. radical herbalists
-
Emotional support
-
Healing support
- Accessible/radical counselling
- Support groups
- Zines & awareness
- Friendship & relationship building
-
Resilient Cultures of Resistance
-
Cultural Attitudes
- Emotionally supportive/expressive
- Unlearning hierarchy of actions & tactics
- Awareness of machismo
- Repression taken seriously
- Acceptance & normalisation of more militant & radical tactics when appropriate
- Honouring all experiences
- Courage, defiance, persistence, dedication
- Supportive of healing work
-
Repression Aware Culture
-
Workshops & popular education
- Know your rights
- Resilience to repression
- Sustaining resistance/burnout awareness
- Security culture
- Greater understanding of militancy & history of struggle
-
Lessen fear
- Dissolve unknown/unpredictable/uncertainty
- Contingency planning
- Aware of histories of repression
-
Security Culture
- Surveillance awareness
- IT/technology
- Make repression difficult & expensive
- Anti-snitching
- Infiltration awareness
- Not communicating with police
-
Solidarity Culture
- Real awareness & support 'none forgotten'
-
Solidarity actions
- Direct actions for prisoners
- Info nights & awareness raising events
-
Statements
- Never condemning others
- Press releases
- Active solidarity with other movements/struggles
-
Resilient Group Structures & Cultures
- Avoiding hierarchies
- Succession of leadership
- Mass movement
- Collective leadership/leaderful groups
- Loyalty & solidarity
- Action learning
- Developing new tactics to new laws