Mark ButlerMark Butler has spent a lifetime trying to learn from, and support, emancipatory and popular militancy. At the moment he does this mainly through work with the Church Land Programme, a small, independent non-profit organisation based in KwaZulu-Natalprovince, South Africa. He is still learning but was largely responsible for typing up this chapter (as part of a larger project on struggles around extractive industries). However, the central section, and the leading insights, ideas and politics, are simply an honest attempt to capture the thinking and the words of people on the ground where these developments are going down - as well as the extraordinary work of mutual encouragement and reflection these militants do with his colleagues at the Church Land Programme. Read More Read Less