Anti-base activists sustained a permanent two-year encampment protest

Evidence

Soon, the No Dal Molin activists also built their own base, which they called the Presidio—a headquarters for the movement, adjacent to the Dal Molin construction site. Beginning as a trailer parked in a cornfield, over time it grew to include two large tents and three shipping containers, with a full-scale kitchen, storage, and toilets. Starting in 2007, No Dal Molin members occupied the Presidio around the clock for more than two years, making a permanent encampment and permanent protest against the base. The Presidio became a kind of community center, a common ground where people could meet and connect with people from diverse political and social backgrounds. The Presidio was more than a movement headquarters. It became, as Guido Lanaro put it, “like a second home.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 909

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A built community center as counterpoint to a military base raises narrative possibilities around physical place-making competing for land and meaning.
• XREF: connects to: Transnational protest camps fragment by ideological affinity into separate villages — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1119; Mass protest wins tactical concessions while structural demands remain unmet — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 278
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Transnational protest camps fragment by ideological affinity into separate villages — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1119; Mass protest wins tactical concessions while structural demands remain unmet — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 278

Broader Connections

• Transnational protest camps fragment by ideological affinity into separate villages #complicates (0.71) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1119