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	Tactical frivolity
		Tactical Frivolity is a tradition of public protest associated with "Pink Blocs," womanist and gay-themed marches that use drumming, samba, dance, radical cheerleading, clowns and fairies to create an atmosphere of festivity and humor during street protests.
		The first Pink Bloc was formed in the Pink/Silver line of the World Bank/IMF anti-globalization movement protest on September 26 in Prague, Czech Republic.
		Other Tactical Frivolity traditions include Reclaim the Streets and Carnival Against Capitalism.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Tactical_frivolity.html (73 words)

	Tactical frivolity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tactical Frivolity is a form of public protest employing whimsy.
		Sometimes associated with 'Pink' and/or 'Silver' blocs or womanist and gay-themed marches, tactical frivolity blocs use drumming, samba, dance, radical cheerleading, clowns and fairies to create an atmosphere of festivity and humor during street protests.
		Participants usually wear pink and silver costumes as a way of engaging the "carnivalesque" spectacle, and to differentiate themselves from other blocs that utilise different tactics, such as the White Overalls, Black Bloc and NGO marches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tactical_frivolity (248 words)

	Anti-globalization - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although local police were surprised by the size of N30, law enforcement agencies have since reacted worldwide to prevent the disruption of future events by a variety of tactics, including sheer weight of numbers, infiltrating the groups to determine their plans, and preparations for the use of force to remove protesters.
		After the November 2000 G-8 protest in Montreal, at which many protesters were beaten, trampled, and arrested in what was intended to be a festive protest, the tactic of dividing protests into "green" (permitted), "yellow" (not officially permitted but with little confrontation and low risk of arrest), and "red" (involving direct confrontation) zones was introduced.
		Many, such as anarchists who participate in the Black Bloc tactic argue that breaking windows is not necessarily a violent action unless humans beings are harmed in the process.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Anti-globalization (5936 words)

	Activism - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The word 'activism' is often synonymous with protest or dissent.
		It can take a wide range of forms, from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, to rallies and street marches, direct action, or even guerilla tactics.
		In contemporary use, "activism" tends to be a word associated with the actions and ideologies of those on the political left.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Activism (225 words)

	Guerrilla communication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Such spectacles often take the form of street and guerrilla theater, such as the theater of Augusto Boal.
		Another way to create such spectacle is via tactical frivolity.
		Pie-throwing as performance art is a classic form of guerrilla communication.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/g/gu/guerrilla_communication.html (151 words)

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	www.encyclopedian.com /search.php?searWords=Tactical (96 words)

	Blocking Movement
		The bloc tactic involves activists who form an affinity group in order to provide solidarity, resist police repression, and carry out actions ranging from peaceful marches to targeted vandalism and the unarresting of other activists.
		As such, what defines a bloc is not ideology but the utilization of particular bloc tactics prepared and executed by affinity groups.
		As one pamphlet notes: “This must also have caused a real headache for the police, stretching their resources intellectually as well as physically… Bringing out water cannon and concussion grenades on people chucking Molotovs is one thing: doing the same against a pink-coloured Samba band lays the authorities wide open to accusations of heavy-handedness” (http://www.wombles.org.uk/background/lessons.php).
	www.affinityproject.org /practices/blocking.html (1316 words)

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	Empire WAS Re: [imc-sheffield] tactical frivolity?? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Apparently Mark does not have Tactical Frivolity at all.
	lists.indymedia.org /pipermail/imc-sheffield/2004-November/1111-30.html (174 words)

	GLOBAL RESISTANCE: We are everywhere - NI 338 - Resistance is the secret of joy
		It is: a pink fairy; a pie in the face; a man in a dress; a fire juggler; a samba rhythm.
		Did the ‘Tactical Frivolity’ women dressed in outrageous pink dresses, wild wigs, nine-foot-high fan tails and feather dusters dancing towards lines of confused Czech police during the International Monetary Fund meetings in Prague pose a terrorist threat?
		Around the world a new spirit is reinventing tactics of resistance, rejecting the tedium of ritual marches from A to B, the verbose rallies where the party faithful listen passively to long speeches by ‘leaders’.
	www.newint.org /issue338/secret.htm (1625 words)

	sociology - Anti-globalization
		Anti-globalizationists are sometimes perceived to be marginalized by mainstream media and governments because of their strongly "anti-business" views; most media across the world are owned by wealthy individuals or large corporations, who are believed by activists to have conflicting interests with the rest of society.
		One of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, resulting in the death of a young citizen of Genoa called Carlo Giuliani during the demonstration and several hundred demonstrators hospitalized after police attacks and torture in custody, was the Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest, from July 18 to July 22, 2001.
		All in all, there were several hundred demonstrators injured and several hundred arrests during the days surrounding the G8 meeting; most of those arrested have been charged with some form of "criminal association" under Italy's anti-mafia and anti-terrorist laws.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Anti-globalization_movement (4363 words)

	www.rhythms of resistance.co.uk : dancers : tactical frivolity
		Tactical Frivolity is a space that exists in the gap between total compliance and violent confrontation.
		It is not driven by absolutes but by stretching the limits of understanding, to include all humans in a productive constructive course towards a joyous celebration of life.
		I can only say that I value the hearts and minds of those I am opposing more than any violent vent of frustration.
	www.rhythmsofresistance.co.uk /?lid=116 (426 words)

	frivolity - OneLook Dictionary Search
		frivolity : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		Frivolity : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Words similar to frivolity: bagatelle, buffoonery, clowning, fluff, frippery, frivolities, frivolousness, harlequinade, prank, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=frivolity (168 words)

	In-Between Art and Politics
		Initially their work was small-scale but effective and even back then it had elements of the cheeky, surprise tactics
		a tactic, the incarnation of the spirit of contemporary resistance to neoliberalism and if the FBI wants to infiltrate this movement, it may have to do so wearing tutus.
		Engaged in ‘Tactical Frivolity’women dressed in outrageous pink dresses, wild wigs, nine-foot-high fan tails and feather dusters dancing towards lines of confused Czech police during the International Monetary Fund meetings in Prague?
	www.colostate.edu /Colleges/LibArts/kf/class/cr.html (1621 words)

	Talking 'bout a Pink Revolution - Whet Moser - radiationvibe.com
		They're practitioners of what is referred to in the activist community as "tactical frivolity." This can include roving dance parties, protest valentines and "tactical flirting," the art of sweet-talking cops into letting a protest continue.
		This language, though, is a sort of tactical coyness.
		The Pink Bloque's goal is to avoid the dismissals or outright hostility that activist groups face by appealing to the soft spot in the public's heart for pink jumpsuits and top-40 music.
	www.radiationvibe.com /rocklotto.html (1227 words)

	TIME.com: Words from the Center of Sorrow -- Mar. 9, 1970 -- Page 4
		The result in U.S. politics is shallowness, a kind of provincial frivolity, mere tactical counterpunching.
		He is despairing when neither the U.S. under President Eisenhower nor Buckley's National Review perceived that Khrushchev is not Stalin and that the tactics and necessities of the Communist world are changing.
		It cannot continue along the line from which the only alternatives are retreat or atomic holocaust.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,878816-4,00.html (665 words)

	UK Indymedia - CODEPINK meet-up points for March 20th
		Just as the 'fl bloc' tactic, or sit down protests or whatever can be brilliant tactics they all have their limitations and are not to be something simply rolled out on every occassion.
		The tactic is great in some situations like mass mobilisations when there are loads of blocs, and during RTS style demos.
		And people often think Pink Silver means pacifist - this makes the tactic totally pointless; we should strive to be tactical with our use/non-use of violence as tool to get what we want.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/03/287220.html?c=on (1066 words)

	[imc-sheffield] tactical frivolity?? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		My girlies were all coming down to particularly see this one.
		Steve, I mentioned Mark in a previous email to you as possibly having a copy - I don't know his surname, but Mark who is samba band and did a few film screenings ages ago at the back of New roots in Burngreave - showed Tactical Frivolity, McLibel and Drowned out.
		Helene atw wrote: I can't find my copy of Tactical Frivolity.
	lists.indymedia.org /pipermail/imc-sheffield/2004-November/1111-2p.html (153 words)

	Indymedia UK - Davos: Tactical Frivolity, Ch4 crew and others detained or deported (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Davos: Tactical Frivolity, Ch4 crew and others detained or deported
		If you look 'wrong' or if you are a journalist without accreditation to the actual WEF conference then you have no rights in Davos...
		Please install the CAcert root certificate to verify the authenticity of the site, for more information see the security page.
	www1.indymedia.org.uk /en/2001/01/1456.html (201 words)

	Grenzcamp 2002 Jena \| Pink & silver goes Jena and other places \| 01.07.2002 18:32
		tactics it achieves not only to enter forbidden geographical space, (be it red
		pink & silver is to remain successful in the future, its tactics and style
		Because in order to translate the concept of "tactical frivolity"
	www.nadir.org /nadir/kampagnen/camp02/produced/2002/07/36.shtml (1117 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Anarchist
		Anarchists, such as the WOMBLES, often played a major role in planning, organising and participating in the subsequent protests.
		The protests tended to be organised on anarchist direct action principles with a general tolerance for a range of different activities ranging from those who engage in tactical frivolity to the fl blocs.
		While communism is proposed as a form of social and economic organisation by many anarchists, other anarchists consider it a danger to the liberty and free development of the individual.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Anarchist (5985 words)

	Indymedia Scotland: ACT NOW! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Performing in the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, the Community Play BLACK SUN OVER GENOA coincides with the G8 Summit 2005 taking place in Gleneagles, Scotland this summer.
		The devised play will be packed with passion and spectacle and includes a mass choir, carnival style ‘tactical frivolity’, haunting film footage, and a huge cast of people from all ages and backgrounds.
		It will be a dramatic and memorable celebration of ordinary people standing up for justice, compassion and hope in the future for our children.
	scotland.indymedia.org /newswire/display/1345/index.php (300 words)

	Pink Silver March - Tactical Frivolity : Italy imc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pink Silver March - Tactical Frivolity : Italy imc
		I love this group and their "tactical frivolity".
		I wish so much I could be frolicking
	italy.indymedia.org /news/2001/07/3405_comment.php (660 words)

	Global Revolt (1842774832) STARR - Zed Books
		Direct Action gives a short history of the worldwide anti-globalization movement and provides social activists with all they need to know about the key concepts and manifestos in this richly diverse mobilization of the people.
		It provides a veritable user's guide to the key debates going on in the movement and explains the array of tactics and actions people are using around the world to put pressure on the powerful in order to defeat free market capitalism and globalization.
		It emphasizes the political alternatives available and stresses the positive contribution activists can make.
	www.palgrave-usa.com /catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1842774832 (978 words)

	Mayday - Guidelines for the Noisy Block to Farmleigh - Indymedia Ireland
		To anarchists not Black, socialists not Red and ecologists not Green.
		We invite you to join us in creating a PINK AND SILVER political and tactical
		heart of Pink and Silver as 'tactical frivolity': a creative, joyous, fun,
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=64502 (1847 words)

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