10 Ways to Make a Protest More Effective

This is an extract from a notebook I had whilst I was studying at Goldsmiths in 2011. I was doing a project on how to make a political protest materially more effective.

1. More Noise - Instruments, drums, speaker systems.
2. More material objects - e.g. bikes. Make the body of protesters is less flexible and more difficult to ‘kettle’.
3. More information sharing through encrypted message channels.
4. Easier ways to tell where and when things are happening - signs, encrypted messaging.
5. Methods of connecting people together - rope, chains, buttons, velcro.
6. Things that create bulk like inflatables, large models of animals, hay-bails etc.
7. Shields and learning to do the roman tortoise formation.
8. No pop music.
9. Masks and other ways of concealing identity.
10. Protective armour and arm extensions.

• Demonstration
• Protest
• England
• London