Tag: direct action

Activism, Immigration, Justice

No Kings – Oct 2025 – Oakland

directactionnovel

Several thousand people marched in Oakland CA on the October 18, 2025 No Kings Day. Marches took place in numerous cities around the Bay Area.

And I heard there might have been protests in other places?

  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.
  • No Kings Day – October 2025 – Oakland CA. Photo by Luke Hauser/RQ.

Photos by Luke Hauser/Reclaiming Quarterly

Contact: ReclaimingQuarterly@gmail.com

Culture, Direct Action, Middle East

Campus Uprisings Support Palestine

directactionnovel

Reports from Various Campuses – April 28, 2024 – click here

Nothing like Spring to bring out student activism. So mote it ever be!

2024 sees a wave of protest of the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. Like the anti-Apartheid movement in the 1980s, the key demand is that Universities and their various billion-dollar endowments divest from criminal regimes.

The tactics are classic Occupy (and also echo the “shanty-towns” of the Apartheid protests) – set up a highly visible, round-the-clock encampment and let the authorities create your publicity.

With an ineptitude matched only by the Republican Congressional Caucus, administrators at one campus after another have blundered into confrontations that spotlight the protests.

A challenge for these protests – dealing with anti-Semitism – never far from the surface in American politics.

Personally, when I (a goy) am involved in protests of Israel’s policies, I take my lead from Jewish Voice for Peace.

Photo – Columbia University – by Lev Radin/Crooked.com

Book Review, Culture

Get A Life: A Memoir by Dress Wedding

directactionnovel

Get a Life

Get A Life: Chronicles of a Conscious Scofflaw

by dress wedding

Get A Life shares Reclaiming activist dress wedding’s journey of engaging in subversive actions and taking chances to build a life of freedom and meaning. The colorful narrative traces his evolution from drug-dealing Grateful Deadhead with self-esteem issues to becoming a nonviolent activist confronting injustice and police over decades in many different facets of the peace movement.

In early activist life, dress became a self-proclaimed witch, embracing the Reclaiming Tradition. And eventually moved to a very different form of action, becoming co-founder of Oakland’s Harborside Health Center in 2006, one of the largest and most respected cannabis retailers in the world.

In 1983 dress was arrested while wearing a wedding dress at an anti-nuclear action at Lawrence Livermore Labs in Berkeley, California. He has been wearing dresses ever since as a personal action against patriarchy, challenging people to think about what it means to “be a man” in our world. Dress writes in depth about how this personal action has impacted others in his life, especially his children and their mother. Also its impact on the Harborside marijuana business as he helped transform the new world of medical cannabis. The book offers a brief critique of the state of cannabis regulation, before outlining hopes for a new venture providing legitimate payments to the industry.

Throughout the manuscript dress notes how imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy has benefitted him and those around him. He explores how depression has affected him as a male in a society that suppresses this possibility. His motivation has always been to improve the human condition and relieve suffering, and his hope for the book is to inspire others to join in this effort.

Website & more information.

Available at Amazon etc.

Direct Action, Politics

Jewish Voice For Peace Demands Gaza Ceasefire

directactionnovel

Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israel-Hamas conflict look down on fellow protestors occupying the rotunda of the Cannon House office building on Capitol Hill. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

October 18, 2023 – The group Jewish Voice for Peace is holding a sit-in inside the Cannon House Office Building in DC. The group claims “over 350 are inside, including two dozen rabbis.”

The group chanted “Ceasefire!” and held signs reading, “Jews say ceasefire now!” The refused to leave “until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.”

Demonstrations are not allowed inside U.S. congressional buildings.

Jewish Voice for Peace activists, among other protesters, were arrested during a demonstration outside the White House on Monday.

Thanks to Nicole Darrah/Yahoo News for details.

Black Lives Matter, Climate Justice, Direct Action, Immigration, Justice, Photos

Activist Photos from Luke Hauser

directactionnovel

Photos of direct actions and other convergences by Luke Hauser from circa 2000-2015.

Includes Occupy, Black Lives Matter, peace and anti-war actions, climate justice, immigrant rights, and more.

Click here for index of actions.

Middle East, Politics

Ten-Year Sentences for Iran protesters

directactionnovel

400 or more people have been given sentences ranging up to 10 years for taking part in recent anti-government protests.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/13/iran-jails-400-for-up-to-10-years-over-widespread-uprisings

The UK Guardian reports:

“The movement was sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian woman who was allegedly beaten into a coma by morality police for wearing her headscarf the wrong way. But it has since morphed into the biggest civil uprising for years, with Iranians expressing their rage over decades of oppression, misogyny in the name of religion, and international isolation.

“Authorities have responded with force, firing at and beating protesters. The UN office of the high commissioner for human rights has said more than 300 people have been killed in the crackdown, including at least 40 children.”

FILE PHOTO: Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2, 2022. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya/File Photo

Photo Reuters 2022.

Activism, Direct Action, Politics

Russians Resist Ukraine Invasion – 7500 arrests

directactionnovel

UPDATE (March 6) – UK Guardian now reports over 7500 arrests throughout Russian – click here for full UKG report.

*****

Click here for original Feb 24 story

(February 24) The UK Guardian reports 1700 arrests in the Russian Federation in protest of Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine. Pjotr Sauer and Andrew Roth report from Moscow:

“Vladimir Putin has said there is broad public support for the invasion of Ukraine that he announced just before dawn on Thursday morning. But by evening, thousands of people in cities across Russia had defied police threats to take to central squares and protest against the military campaign.

“Police had made at least 1,702 arrest in 53 Russian cities as of Thursday evening, according to the OVD-Info monitor, as they cracked down on the unsanctioned protests. Most of the arrests were made in Moscow and St Petersburg, where the crowds were largest.”

Image: Moscow protester, February 2022 – by Konstantin Zavrazhin

Climate Justice

Forest Defense – Logging Alert near Mendocino Woodlands

directactionnovel

The decades-long effort to limit logging in Northern California’s Jackson State Demonstration Forest, which contains Mendocino Woodlands, is currently facing vast areas of active and proposed new cuts.

Mendocino Woodlands is home to four Reclaiming witchcamps as well as dozens of other grassroots camps and retreats.

Read a report from forest defender Fly.

Photo courtesy SaveTheRedwoods.org

Climate Justice, Culture

Last Wild Witch – on Youtube!

directactionnovel

Starhawk’s classic eco-fable for all ages – read by Georgie Craig. With surrealistic illustrations by Lindy Kehoe.

Youtube – with all of the pictures!

In the heart of the last magic forest lives the last wild witch…

Will the children of the perfect town find their inner power and let a little magic into everyone’s lives?