What is Resist?
We are in the process of building an online platform so that people can:
Share your skills, share your story, Work together, Change something, Make a difference.
Films that make a difference
We believe that good storytelling strengthens social movements, so every year we want to select stories from Resist to turn into films.
During 2008 we asked people to upload their stories of resistance and spoke with many writers and political thinkers.
Using what we learnt, we've chosen to make our first film with the actor Gael Garcia Bernal about the wall that is being built between Mexico and America. It raises serious questions about systemic poverty, and how we are going to manage the shift of millions of people in the coming decades. This is of course not just a Mexico/USA issue.
For climatic reasons, for economic reasons, for security reasons, people are moving and they are moving in a world that is effectively getting smaller and smaller. There are walls everywhere - between countries and across cities. They are built to protect those who can afford to protect themselves, they are built to keep the displaced and the poor outside.
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Voices in support of Resist
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Information and knowledge are so important to so many issues of inequality that making this available more broadly will change the dynamic of development.
Charles Leadbeater, ranked one of the top thinkers in the world
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To change the equation we need to simultaneously resist and create something new.
Naomi Klein, author
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The answer on how to make a difference does not come from up on high. There is no one right answer. There are lots of different right answers and you have to find your own way.
Noam Chomsky, author
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The era of apathy is over. It’s our individual responsibility to share, to participate, to join the conversation.
Roland Harwood, head of Nesta Connect
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There is great urgency to connect people and ideas, build networks and virtual encyclopedias of how to struggle, resist and organise.
Mike Davis, author
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The people themselves who are suffering human rights violations are using new technologies and standing up as agents for change in their own lives.
Colm Ó Cuanacháin, Senior director of campaigns, Amnesty International
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Films are becoming like political elections. You need people who will email friends and walk the streets to talk about a project.
Jess Search, Chief Executive of the Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation
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What's New
New Communication Technology and Social Change lecture at Saybrook
On June 13th Resist will be joining a discussion at Saybrook
‘New media technologies and strategies are transforming the nature and potential of social activism—from their novel use in the Obama campaign and administration, and in nonprofit organizations, to their deployment by social movements such as the “Twitter Revolution” in Moldova. In this seminar, we will reflect upon these changes, learn some of the skills necessary to utilize these technologies and strategies effectively, critically assess the comparative strengths, weaknesses, and social implications of newer and traditional forms of social change, and consider the impact of the emergence of such technologies on our educational, research, and activist work at Saybrook’.
Resist at the G20 London protests
follow the Guardian’s news blog here http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/mar/31/g20-summit-protests