“Remember that you do not organise just to win. You organise because the oppressive conditions of this institution require an urgent response.
Sometimes you will not win, and that is ok. See yourself as part of a continuous cycle of people who have been doing resistance work in Cambridge for a long time.
Clear the path for others and bring them in, give them the tools you wish you had when you started getting involved in student activism.”
Lola Olufemi’s advice to student activists in the Cambridge Disorientation Guide (2018). Image credit: Abera Khan.
Organising guides
The Disorientation Guides produced by 12 Pints Press are essential reading for anyone interested in social justice activism in Cambridge. Inside you can find carefully archived information for building and sustaining movements based at the University.
Student Organiser’s Handbook (2015)
Focused more on strategy and tactics – the Student Organiser’s Handbook compiles tips from previous generations of organisers to encourage new students to get out there and start organising!
A timeline of activism
A short history of student activism in Cambridge (1914-2018), archived by 12 Pints Press in their Disorientation Guides.
Cambridge Radical Archives 