Good security practices are essential to effective, sustainable organizing. We have decided to review these practices by reading two zines about security culture, Security Culture: A Handbook for Activists and Confidence. Courage. Connection. Trust: A Proposal for Security Culture.
Both act as concise overviews of the basics when it comes to security culture. Each zine also provides extra insight into a particular area of the concept: Confidence. Courage. Connection. Trust offers practical strategies for maintaining confidentiality in real-life scenarios, with a focus on navigating relationships. Its suggestions are bolstered with anecdotes from the author about their personal experience using the strategies presented. The unique insights of Security Culture: A Handbook for Activists, meanwhile, include an overview of different arms of law-enforcement and intelligence agencies run by the Canadian state, as well as a brief guide to informants and infiltrators. Together, these two short readings offer activists a firm foundational education in strong security practices.
Both Confidence. Courage. Connection. Trust. and Security Culture: A Handbook for Activists can be obtained from The Anarchist Library. Both plain-text and imposed zine format are available for each reading. For the sake of convenience, plain-text PDFs of each can also be downloaded off this webpage just below:
As always, we meet at Camas Books and Infoshop, 2620 Quadra Street, on unceded Lekwungen Territory at 6:30pm on Sunday August 18th.