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’.