Today I protested outside the city Atos offices. It was a sobering experience; we could see how long the assessments took, we could see how people struggled to even get to the place, and, perhaps most soberingly, we could see how little people cared. We gave out about 15 leaflets during the day, despite trying to engage with people, and a mere six people turned up to leaflet. Able-bodiedness is only a temporary state; even if you don't believe in "organised compassion", don't you want to be supported if you're hit by a car tomorrow?
The sardonically named Diary of a Benefit Scrounger has an idea for a silent protest

I think people are starting to think more about a multi-faceted approach. The government are cutting fast and hard at all sorts of services, and trying to sacrifice one to save another won't work. I really liked sebastienne's post on this where she argues that

to engage in direct resistance, to simply say "no, don't do this", is to stay on the road that has been chosen for you, but to try to push back against the flow of traffic, the direction of power. Whoever wins, you lose, because you've allowed those in power to define the terms of the discourse, and your endpoint is still a point on their road. It is far better, therefore, to strike off the road, to show the other way as best you can".

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The very idea that we must choose a cause to fight, resist the single cut that is the most evil, and stay true to that campaign, is our defeat. We feel it, because the size of the whole project terrifies us, but to come to the place where we choose we have already implicitly accepted so much.

Against the “Right” to Protest: dissent is not a commodity makes a similar point that "protest is not heritage. It is not a “right” to be invoked when threatened. It is a disruptive action designed to fundamentally challenge structures of power". When we accept things like pre-planned routes, collaboration and clearance by authorities, and the careful management of protest so it doesn't disturb anyone, it also means that we accept someone else's terms and, both literally and metaphorically, stay on their road.

The Deterritorial Support Group has some interesting ideas around similar themes of how to resist fighting on anyone's terms but our own.

So yeah, I'm thinking our protests have to be less wildcat and more feral. Keep them unpredictable and creative and startling, keep them on our terms and not on anyone else's.

Speaking of creative, I came across this amazing, amazing fanvid for Jurassic Park. From the dinosaurs' point of view. Sometimes I fscking love remix culture.