PITSTOP FOR PROTEST

by Bradley Welch

The 1965 march to Selma was a catalyst in the U.S. Civil Rights movement. Like the recent murder of George Floyd, the murder of Jimmy Lee Jackson, a black man shot dead by white law enforcement officers precipitated events that ignited protest and resistance. Just as today in Santa Monica, Minnesota and other US cities and states, churches and homes were used as chains of shelter, providing safety, sustenance and support, enabling protestors to move and remain cohesive. Self-service Protest provides an archive and resources for contemporary protestors and activists. Pit-Stop for Protest develops this concept to create a place of safety, camouflage and rejuvenation for protestors in London. Providing communal baths, sleeping accommodation, food and workshop space, the proposal has a public face of bathing and pleasure shadowed by a secret underworld of activism and resistance where protestors rest and re-group before continuing with the demonstrations engulfing the city.
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