2026-06-12

planted: 12/06/2026last tended: 13/06/2026

Listened:
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  - Says Extinction Rebellion's analysis of non-violence is misleadingly selective of history of past movements.
  - Women's suffrage, Civil Rights Movement, anti-apartheid, Poll tax. All had wings using violence that arguably contributed to the movement.
  - Talks about Radical flank effect.
  - Malm not a fan of Gandhi overall.
  - Discusses Nelson Mandela and MK. Non-violence until it was ineffective. Then violence.
  - He says the question is not whether sabotage alone can bring about the change required (it can't). But can the wider movement bring change without the radical fringe?
Listened:
- Today in Focus: On the ground in the Belfast riots
  - Thugs targeting anyone who is an immigrant.
  - I felt sad and angered by the persecution of entirely innocent people.

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