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Resistance – A touring exhibition and DIY archiving project – documenting and celebrating UK grassroots movements for social change.

Learn from the past to create the future.

STATEMENT on the PALESTINE ACTION PROSCRIPTION

The Resistance project has now for nearly a decade mounted exhibitions of the social history of UK protest, including photos and videos of non-violent direct action.

As a result, we have been pleased to feature the direct actions of the PALESTINE ACTION group in our exhibitions, alongside other anti-war campaigns. These include the 1996 Hawk warplane action, where the Seeds of Hope women were found not guilty of criminal damage because of the need to prevent the greater crime of genocide, a very close parallel with the activities of Palestine Action.

The British government is currently trying to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group in legislation condemned by a wide range of human rights organisations as a major breach of civil liberties.

We firmly oppose this proscription and declare our commitment to continue to exhibit media showing all types of campaigning in the historic and honourable tradition of non-violent direct action.

Some photos of recent exhibitions.

If you would like to support and help develop the Resistance Exhibition/Archive, then please donate whatever you can afford. This is a labour born of love and the belief that our history matters.

News

5th March 2025

Resistance Expo at GEI17

On February 25 2025 we presented a cut-down version of the portable exhibition at the Green Events and Innovations Conference in Royal Lancaster London, hosted by A Greener Future.

11th November 20245th December 2024

Black Resistance 2024

Our second exhibition for #BlackHistoryMonth ran from October 25 to 27 in Soho Studios.

20th October 202222nd October 2022

𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 launches this November in Soho, London

𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 comes to Soho, London, showcasing more than 40 years of UK protest and popular resistance photos, videos and artefacts from a wide variety of social movements. From Friday 4 November to Sunday 13 November, every day from 12pm – 8pm. PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday 3 October 6pm-10pm Black Door, Soho Studios, 17-19 Archer Street, London …

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Resistance Archive

Here is a prototype for the Resistance Archive. When it is launched the archive will build an entire social history of protest, from more than 50 years of video, photo and documents. Feel free to try it out by clicking some tags in the word cloud, or by typing into the search bar (detailed advice below).

Search supports the following functions:

Function	Symbol	Description
AND	,	Includes results containing both terms.
OR	\|	Includes results containing either term.
NOT	–	Excludes results containing the term.
Grouping	()	Groups terms for complex queries.
Phrase	“”	Matches an exact phrase.

Examples

Basic Queries:

climate,change → Matches entries with both “climate” AND “change”.

protest | activism → Matches entries with either “protest” OR “activism”.

-violence → Excludes entries containing “violence”.

Complex Queries:

(environment | sustainability),policy → Matches entries containing either “environment” OR “sustainability” AND “policy”.

“climate crisis” | (renewable,energy) → Matches entries with the exact phrase “climate crisis” OR both “renewable” AND “energy”.

-corporate,(greenwashing|deception) → Excludes entries with “corporate” while requiring “greenwashing” OR “deception”.

How To Archive Online

Are you storing protest materials from your past the past of your family and friends?

Photos, videos, flyers, newsletters, other disobedient objects?

We have produced a guide to online archiving for you. The guide has been written for the Resistance Project, a collective dedicated to preserving, collating and distributing radical protest and campaign materials.

Download the Guide
In the guide you can learn how to put your precious items online making them safe, accessible and inspirational.