MB Civic

Micah White ..

The history of activism is a cat-and-mouse game of surprising tactical innovations that spark an insurrectionary situation and the counterstrategies developed to put down the revolt. In 1848, the invention of the barricade toppled the King of France and sparked a Europe-wide people’s uprising. In 1999, the unique mixture of a carnivalesque mood with human lockboxes disrupted the World Trade Organization’s Seattle meeting and launched the alterglobalization movement. In 2003, the speed of the Internet empowered the world’s first worldwide, synchronized antiwar protest. In each of these cases, the power structures were taken by surprise, were slow to respond but eventually, through trial-and-error, discovered a successful counterstrategy. If there is one law of activism it is that every tactic which works initially will eventually be defeated if too often repeated

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