Recent articles by Zelda Grimshaw

22 June 2023
“Like the Hydra”: Strategic incapacitation fails to decapitate the climate movement
Blockade Australia’s return this week, in larger numbers and across three locations, represents a victory over ‘Strategic incapacitation’, a policing technique that aims to smash the organising ability of a group of people, such that the group can no longer function. “Like the hydra, we are back threefold. You cannot decapitate the climate movement,” they stated.

25 November 2022
‘Strike Force Guard’: suppression of climate protest threatens us all
“The totalising control that [NSW police] have on my life is crushing and it is clearly designed to be so,” writes an activist in this collection of first-hand accounts of the suppression of climate protest by NSW police ‘Strike Force Guard’.