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“Global Ecology not Global Economy”: What can we learn from the history of the 1990s eco-anarchist direct action movement?
September 20
@ London Anarchist Bookfair
Leake Street Arches, Leake Street, SE1 7NN
In the 1990s, signing on the dole while living in a tree on the route of a planned bypass was where it was at. Everyone spent all their time pouring sugar in the petrol tanks of JCB diggers and then dancing all night dropping Es at illegal free parties.
Well, OK, that wasn’t everyone and not every day was like that, but… the British ecological direct action movement of the 1990s pioneered tree houses and tunnels as tactics of resistance to the construction of capitalist infrastructure and carried out a wide array of militant action and sabotage against road building, quarrying, mining, genetic engineering, airports and housing developments.
What can we learn from the impressive ecological struggles and eco-anarchist politics of the 1990s and early 2000s? Come and delve into the Mayday Rooms’ eco-anarchist collection, get hands-on with some archive materials and hear ecological anarchists of various generations reflect on what we can take for the future from the histories of our movements.