Anti-Militarist Network

The Safer Spaces Agreement covers all spaces, real and virtual, that the AMN organises or uses, and applies to everyone operating within the Network.

We reject a society that exploits people and planet in the interests of private profit and privilege, and that fosters exclusion and oppression. Oppression can happen at a political, social or personal level and typically occurs on the basis of ethnicity, class, gender, gender identity, gender presentation, sexuality, age, income, ability, appearance, immigration, activist experience, and other forms of difference and inequality. We consider any behaviour that demeans, marginalises, threatens or harms anybody, as oppression and we commit to resisting it.

• Anyone who is responsible for violence, intimidation, harassment or unwanted sexual contact will by their behaviour exclude themselves from the Network.

• We reject any form of language and behaviour that perpetuates oppression, however unintentionally: for example a racist or sexist joke, or interrupting someone on the basis of unspoken privilege.

Providing a safe and welcoming space is everyone’s responsibility. We ask those in the network to challenge attitudes and behaviour in a way that is respectful and constructive, whilst treating the needs of the oppressed, and our desire for a safe space, as paramount.