W e without are nothing resilience. It’s what told myself time and If we’re to sustain our activism, whatever the social justice issue may be, then we need to learn how to recover from the difficulties we face, the traumas we experience and the failures we encounter.
CONFRONTATION AND FAILURE At the beginning of 2014, I was participating in my third whale defence campaign in the Southern Ocean, directly intervening in the illegal killing of protected whales. The previous year we’d been massively successful – saving the lives of 932 whales – but here we were again, facing down a colossal whaling fleet, backed by the Japanese government. A typical David and Goliath story.