Anonymity is the ability to do things without having to give up your identity or admit that you did it.
Without borders means there is no restriction of movement.
Guerrillas are people who do things on an independent basis, irregularly, and often get huge amounts of stuff done in a short amount of time.
What do these things have in common?
Currently, these three ideas are central in some forms of modern activism.
For Anonymous, having anonymity makes people equal because there is no sex, race, or religion to separate individuals from the whole. In this way, they become a collective, more powerful than the sum of the parts.
The Without Border Movements (Doctors, Artists, Engineers, etc W/O Borders) is trying to address the biases and harm that immigration and border policies around the world can do to people. Freedom of movement is a right guaranteed by the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Guerrillas, for example
Guerrilla Gardeners and
Guerrilla Grafters are able to quickly facilitate change because by inserting different elements into a community in a short amount of time with little to no public alerts.
Combined, the three movements represent the perfect stew for mass change, I think: a large crowd of people with nothing separating them from each other doing stuff with a pretty good time frame before the protests can be controlled. And of course, a common cause unites them all: a desire to create change.
What do you all think? Are there more keys to a successful protest? How do you carry the momentum forward to get it moving further? What activist styles do you all know and/or like?
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