Nothing scares the authorities more than when we join the dots and build unexpected alliances
Climate Change isn't an accident. It has happened through specific exploitation of specific communities. From sub Saharan Africa to communities by airport expansions in the UK, the impacts of climate change condemn predominantly poor and Black communities to bearing the brunt of climate change, whilst the perpetrators ( those in the White House, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to name a few) usually conceal themselves from any impacts behind fast cars and gated communities.
Tackling climate change means joining the dots between injustices. In London, communities and projects separately tackling poverty, inequality, racism and climate change came together to see their interconnectivity, develop solidarity and plan actions and campaigns to tackle the issues together and head on.
By recognising that the state wants to compartmentalise our concerns, by dividing our struggles, is exactly what keeps the state oppressing. We can counteract state oppression by using our skills to fight back against them. We will not believe the divisions they want us to believe; the myths of ‘violence vs. non-violence’ of ‘activism vs. extremism’, that if you engage in direct action and self-defence for our communities that 'your either with us or against us' or ‘you’re a terrorist and we are the law-keepers’ and, laughably, that ‘we (anyone who challenges the law) are all domestic extremists now’. Nothing scares the authorities more than unexpected alliances between resistance movements. They don’t know where we are coming from and don’t know where to start.
Photo: Paul Choy
