The first Green and Black Cross Network Gathering

Lon­don June 18th 11–6 Fol­lowed by a social. Venue TBC

Sup­port is attack!

Green and Black Cross were set up after the Mill­bank demon­stra­tion of Novem­ber last year through iden­ti­fy­ing a need for the type of sup­port that had been devel­oped in the Cli­mate Move­ment. Since then we have sup­port­ed hun­dreds of peo­ple from many back­grounds in their rebel­lions and protests.

Lon­don June 18th 11–6 Fol­lowed by a social. Venue TBC

Sup­port is attack!

Green and Black Cross were set up after the Mill­bank demon­stra­tion of Novem­ber last year through iden­ti­fy­ing a need for the type of sup­port that had been devel­oped in the Cli­mate Move­ment. Since then we have sup­port­ed hun­dreds of peo­ple from many back­grounds in their rebel­lions and protests.
From a legal sup­port hot­line to tire­less legal observers on the streets, brave action medics to a kitchen team smug­gling flap­jacks behind police lines. Our empha­sis on sup­port is to allow the poten­tial for fur­ther rebel­lion, for peo­ple to rise up and in doing so take con­trol of the direc­tion of their lives and spread a rela­tion­ship of sol­i­dar­i­ty and mutu­al aid.

It’s time to get involved!

At Lon­don we’ve devel­oped work­ing groups around forms of sup­port includ­ing Legal, Kitchens, Medics, Toi­lets and Rad­i­cal Child Care. We want not only to strength­en these groups in the region but also to expand a sup­port net­work. If you’re from Man­ches­ter and you’ve been legal observ­ing on demon­stra­tions, if your from Leeds and you’re think­ing about pro­vid­ing food at pick­et lines, if you live in Bris­tol and you want to be there when pro­tes­tors get injured, where ever you live and you are think­ing about get­ting involved – come! Share skills, swap sto­ries and find out more. The day will be split between intro­duc­tions to the project, ques­tions and debate on the Green and Black Cross net­work struc­ture, work­ing group time to share and devel­op our prac­tices and end­ing the day with a social event.

Why Lon­don? Unfor­tu­nate­ly GBC is present­ly Lon­don based. We aim to bring about a hor­i­zon­tal net­work that con­tains region­al auton­o­my. To do this though we want to share where we’re at so far and to make this pos­si­ble to organ­ise we’ve called the gath­er­ing in the big smoke.

Want to get involved soon­er but need some skills and or infor­ma­tion? GBC has set up a project to offer info/skill shares for groups who want to be trained up in a par­tic­u­lar sup­port role. We can offer skill shares in your rea. Get in touch with GBC@riseup.net.

We’re trans­form­ing rela­tion­ships, we’re fight­ing destruc­tion. Get involved with GBC and make way for the move­ment! For more info and pos­si­bil­i­ties of crash space email GBC@Riseup.net

Full details — fol­low the link in the Action Dates & Gath­er­ings link, to the left