Handbook
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- Foreword
- When does a direct action campaign start?
- What's direct action?
- Nonviolence
- The schedule of destruction
Chapter 2. YOUR CAMPAIGN - SOME FIRST STEPS
- Setting up a group from scratch
- Money, bank accounts and treasurer
- Points of contact
- Group structure
- Campaign meetings
Chapter 3. BOOSTING NUMBERS AND SUPPORT
- Leaflets
- Posters
- Stickers
- Petitions
- Postcards
- "Beat the Bulldozer" Pledges
- Door-knocking
- Stalls
- Route walks
- Public meetings and debates
- Social events
- Newsletters
- Mailing lists
- Banners and flags
- The campaign office
- Big events
- Telephone info lines
- Phone trees
- The internet
- Autonomous local groups
- Buying, blagging and borrowing
- Wish lists
- Fundraising
Chapter 5. DEALING WITH THE MEDIA
- Getting the most from the media
- Press contacts and lists
- Press releases
- Photo-opportunities
- Media information packs
- Spokespeople
- Doing interviews
- Letters pages
- Bad press
Chapter 6. GETTING INFORMATION
- Libraries
- Local papers
- Journalists
- Council offices
- Maps
- Environmental information regulations
- Post, phone and fax
- Company searches
- World Wide Web
- Contractors' offices
- Inside sources
- Infiltration
- Observation, photography and tailing
- Using the info
- Politicians
- Road-building agencies
- Financiers
- Contractors
- Consulting engineers
- Surveyors
- Security guards
- Private detectives
- Tree "surgeons" and chainsaw operators
- Bailiffs and Sheriff's Officers
- Climbers
- Potholers
- Police
- Local road supporters
- Contract award procedures
Chapter 8. PREPARING FOR ACTION
- Route monitoring
- Grid maps
- Camps - when and why?
- Off-route camps and accommodation
- Welcome centres
- Communication gadgets - CB's, mobile phones, pagers etc
- Quartermasters, Quartermistresses and resource allocation
- Bicycles and vehicles
- Driver lists
- Setting up a legal support team
- Bail addresses
- Legal briefings and bust cards
- Good lawyers
- Action observers
- Police Liaison
- Affinity groups
- Direct action training and preparation
- Vigils
- Emergency mailout
Chapter 9. OCCUPYING THE THREATENED AREA
- Siting defences
- Establishing your camp
- Building a tree camp
- Building tree defences
- Defending buildings
- Tunnels
- Barricades trenches and tank traps
- Dams
- Positive defensive tactics
- Evictions
- Tree evictions
- Eviction of buildings
- Dealing with cherry pickers
- Tunnel evictions
- After eviction
Chapter 10. GOING ON THE OFFENSIVE
- Thinking Strategically
- Stopping surveyors
- Site invasion
- Crane sits
- Blockades
- Days of action
- Targeting the evidence gatherers on site
- De-arresting
- Targeting contractors off-site
- Office occupations
- Bureaucrat baiting
- Shareholder actions
- Subvertising billboards
- Hunger strikes
- Filming on actions
- Criminal damage and the campaign
- Secrecy or openness when organising?
- Dealing with violence on actions
Chapter 11. RECLAIMING THE STREETS
- Critical mass bicycle rides
- Street party
- Cycle lane painting
- Car bouncing bonanza
Chapter 12. TOOLS FOR THE JOB!
- Locks
- Coat loop lock-ons
- Cherry picker catchers
- Arm tubes
- Lock-ons
- Chainsaw blocking tools
- Tripods
- Bipods
- Monopoles
- Scrap cars
- Caltrops
- Smoke bombs
- Anti-quickcuff gauntlets
- General security
- Office security
- Computer and document security
- Infiltrators
- Publications
Chapter 14. SUSTAINING YOURSELF & THE CAMPAIGN COMMUNITY
- Tolerance
- Mutual support
- Burn-out
- Gender issues
- Living communally
- Maintaining personal stamina
- Common camp ailments
- Natural additions to your First Aid kit
- Wildlife and Countryside Protection Act 1981
- European Law
- Public processions and assemblies
- Squatting land and buildings
- Some relevant police powers
- Arrestable offences
- Getting arrested
- At the police station
- Bail conditions
- Support at the police station for those nicked
- Preparing for trial
- The trial
- Sentencing and penalties
- Not pay fines
- Prison
- Prisoner support
- Injunctions
- Seeking injunctions against them
- Police complaints
- Suing the police
APPENDIX
- Contract work schedule
- Postcards
- Pledge
- Lamp post prussiking
- Compost toilets
- Phone tree structure
- Wish lists
- Press releases
- Grid map
- Legal briefing
- Bust card
- Short "if you are arrested" leaflet
- Witness statement form
- NVDA training schedules
- Concensus flow chart
- Emergency mail-out leaflet
- Knots
- Walkways
- Tripods
- Section 6 notice
- Eviction summons
- Injuction affidavit - Application
- Injuction affidavit - Affidavit
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