Cross-posted from Medium by Patrick Young This is the third segment in the Lawyers, Lockboxes and Money series, a project that explores the role shared social movement infrastructure has played in social movement uprisings and how this infrastructure has evolved over time, moving across issue areas and geographies to knit… Continue reading
Cross-posted from Rising Tide Toronto “[Saturday] morning, twenty people dressed as construction workers arrived at 232 Douglas Drive in Toronto, erected construction fencing and turned the well-manicured lawn into a site of destruction. They also postered and flyered the neighbourhood to bring attention to one the people behind the ongoing… Continue reading
Cross-posted from Medium by Patrick Young — Part II of the Lawyers, Lockboxes and Money series Every mobilization, every blockade, every march depends on a complex network of movement infrastructure that will likely never make it to the front page of the papers. To make all of these things possible,… Continue reading
cross-posted from Meduim By Patrick Young Shared social movement infrastructure in popular uprisings Across the United States and around the world, the past decade has been marked by a series of dramatic episodes of social movement uprisings. Thousands of people have taken to the streets facing down chemical weapons and… Continue reading