Zelda Grimshaw

Zelda Grimshaw is a life long campaigner for peace, earth and human rights. She was a UN observer of the ballot for independence in East Timor in 1999 and remains connected to struggles in East Timor and West Papua. Zelda is passionate about decolonisation, dismantling patriarchy and creating climate justice.

Recent articles by Zelda Grimshaw

“Like the Hydra”: Strategic incapacitation fails to decapitate the climate movement

“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.

‘Strike Force Guard’: suppression of climate protest threatens us all

‘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’.