Date: May 26th
Category: Modern Movements | Legacy & Impact | Looking Forward
History isn’t finished.
It’s not just dusty banners and archived footnotes — it’s happening right now.
Today’s rebels are tomorrow’s monuments, museum exhibits, and GCSE exam questions. They’re creating history in real time — with hashtags, hand-painted signs, legal challenges, walkouts, documentaries, and dance routines.
This May 26th, The Time Traveller’s Guild salutes the modern movements and everyday activists shaping a fairer future — and reminds us all that resistance is an ongoing, evolving art form.
🌍 1. Climate Justice: The Fight for a Liveable Future
From Greta Thunberg to global indigenous land defenders, the climate movement is the resistance of our age. Young people are leading school strikes. Scientists are gluing themselves to motorways. Communities are demanding change at the highest levels — and growing food in car parks while they wait.
🌱 Guild Recommends:
- Fridays for Future
- Stop Rosebank (UK-specific oil field campaign)
- Indigenous Environmental Network
🧑⚖️ 2. Legal Rebels: The Right to Resist
Lawyers, whistleblowers, and watchdogs are using the system to hold the system accountable. Whether it’s challenging unjust laws, defending protestors, or exposing corruption, this is quiet resistance with teeth.
⚖️ Follow:
- Liberty (UK) – Fighting for civil liberties and protest rights
- Good Law Project – Using strategic litigation to challenge power
- Article 19 – Defending freedom of expression worldwide
🌈 3. Intersectional Pride: The Queer Liberation Continuum
Today’s LGBTQ+ activists are not just celebrating identities — they’re defending lives. From trans youth fighting bans, to drag queens turning cabarets into classrooms, the movement remains bold, beautiful, and profoundly necessary.
🌈 Watch for:
- Black Pride UK
- Queer Youth Assemble
- Drag Story Hour as resistance — joy is protest, too.
📣 4. Mutual Aid & Grassroots Networks
In times of crisis, mutual aid groups have risen where institutions failed. From pandemic-era food deliveries to refugee resettlement networks and community legal clinics, solidarity — not charity — leads the way.
🧺 Guild Shoutout:
- London Renters Union
- ACORN (UK community union)
- The Solidarity Apothecary – Herbal care for marginalised groups
🖥️ 5. Digital Dissent & Cyberspace Resistance
In an age of surveillance capitalism, resistance lives online. Hacktivists, digital privacy advocates, and meme-lords are challenging Big Tech, defending open knowledge, and creating secure spaces for global activism.
💻 Follow:
- Mozilla Foundation
- Signal App / Digital Security Trainers
- Data & Society Institute
🛍️ Carry It Forward: The “Future Rebels” Capsule Collection
Inspired by the signs, slogans, and symbols of 21st-century resistance:
- “Be the Footnote Future Historians Can’t Ignore” hoodies
- “Joy Is a Form of Resistance” totes
📚 Want to Join the Movement?
- How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright
- Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
- Youth to Power by Jamie Margolin
- The Resistance Library – Firestorm Books
💬 Share Your Fight: #FutureRebelsGuild
Are you part of a modern movement? Starting your own? Tag your action, art, or hope with #FutureRebelsGuild and tag @TimeTravellersGuild — we’ll feature changemakers in our May 31 round-up.
