{"id":28120,"date":"2018-01-21T16:34:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T16:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=28120"},"modified":"2018-01-21T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T16:34:51","slug":"a-cardiff-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/a-cardiff-activist","title":{"rendered":"A Cardiff Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Adam Johannes, the founder and coordinator of the Cardiff People&#8217;s Assembly against Austerity talks about the movement, austerity and his attitude on politics.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28160\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28160\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/edited3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/edited3.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/edited3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/edited3-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28160\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/edited3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/edited3.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/edited3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/edited3-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript> &#8216;War is the enemy of the poor&#8217; &#8211; Adam Johannes talking at a NO NATO march in Newport \/ Photography by Nigel Pugh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Adam Johannes strikes you as an intellectual. His signature round glasses, greying hair and the calm, collected way he talks are a testament to the fact. Before actually asking him, I convinced myself that he was an academic. I struggled to hide my surprise when he told me that he describes himself as an office worker, musician and freelance writer. His twitter bio writes \u201c<em>MC, Style Councilor, Community Worker, Broadcaster, Hip Hop Ambassador, Popular Educator, Word-smith, Medicine Man, Intellectual Freedom Fighter, Fashion Model.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adam is a founding member and coordinator of the Cardiff People\u2019s Assembly, the Welsh capital\u2019s branch of the UK-wide People\u2019s Assembly Against Austerity. The movement identifies as \u201ca broad, united national campaign against austerity,\u00a0cuts and privatization, linked to no political party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Assembly Against Austerity, UK was launched with an open letter published in\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0in February 2013 and was backed by public figures such as\u00a0Tony Benn and\u00a0Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Assembly began with a founding conference of 5,000 people in London. \u201cWe share a broad set of principles, and a brand. Obviously, it\u2019s quite useful when you\u2019re a part of a national campaign,\u201d Adam says.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28137\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-28137 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-after-austerity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-after-austerity.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-after-austerity-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-after-austerity-500x750.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28137 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-after-austerity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-after-austerity.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-after-austerity-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-after-austerity-500x750.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript> &#8216;Theresa May Out&#8217; Protest in Cardiff \/ Photography by Taz Rahman &#8211; amonochromedream.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2008 financial crisis led many Western governments to implement fiscal austerity policies. Adam argues that during the first year of the crisis both Labour and the Conservatives shared the opinion that the way out of recession was by cutting public spending and austerity policies. \u00a0\u201cThe People\u2019s Assembly Against Austerity of UK was launched very much for this argument, that austerity is a political choice not a practical necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%;background: white\">In 2015, due to council budget cuts, seven Cardiff libraries were threatened with closure. The Cardiff branch of the People\u2019s Assembly was created to resist these closures. That February, the Assembly organized a mass-read in at libraries across the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%;background: white\">\u201cWe said to people, bring a book and let\u2019s stage a mass read-in outside the central library. Hundreds of people gathered. People were holding up books so it caught people\u2019s imagination and became quite visual in the press photos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%;background: white\">Just three days after the demonstration, local councils cancelled the budget cuts. \u201cThat campaign galvanized us to set up a wider campaign against austerity,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28139\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Save-our-Libraries-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Save-our-Libraries-edit.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Save-our-Libraries-edit-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Save-our-Libraries-edit-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28139\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Save-our-Libraries-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Save-our-Libraries-edit.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Save-our-Libraries-edit-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/Save-our-Libraries-edit-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The Cardiff People\u2019s Assembly organises campaigns, protests, film screenings, lectures and reading groups on a weekly basis. \u201cWe try to have a lot of events to raise awareness, what we call political education. Get people thinking about neoliberalism and austerity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their Facebook group has more than 2300 members. Adam admits that sometimes they can mobilise hundreds of people for their marches, but that sometimes the group sets up a meeting and only ten people attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in organizations dedicated to social change there are many egos and personalities involved. You get careerism, people see being involved in something which is popular as a means of advancing themselves.. People have a mixture of good motives and bad motives. But I think that is true for every area of anything in life. It\u2019s part of being human.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28153\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28153\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28153\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript> &#8216;NO NATO&#8217; march in Newport \/ Source: cndcymru.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28141\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-28141 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march2-a-monochrome-dream-photography.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march2-a-monochrome-dream-photography.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march2-a-monochrome-dream-photography-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march2-a-monochrome-dream-photography-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28141 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march2-a-monochrome-dream-photography.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march2-a-monochrome-dream-photography.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march2-a-monochrome-dream-photography-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/march2-a-monochrome-dream-photography-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript> &#8216;NO NATO&#8217; march in Newport \/ Photography by Taz Rahman &#8211; amonochromedream.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The movement attracts local students, artists, academics, social workers and in general, people whose politics are to the left. \u201cWe have people who are members of Labour, Plaid Cymru, the Green Party and some of the far-left, as well as younger people who don\u2019t necessarily identify themselves with those terms. If you just base yourself in one political party you will exclude all those other voices so it\u2019s very important for us to bring in these voices, everyone who is against austerity into one movement. It\u2019s quite important for us to be independent of any political party. We have to challenge even parties we\u2019re sympathetic to. We have to push them and change them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One could argue that one-issue movements may have noble motives but they can never harness the political power that major parties do and will never be as effective as them.<\/p>\n<p>Adam believes that grassroots movements exist to pressure big parties and to keep them in check. \u201cA political party has all sorts of pressure from within and from above from powerful interests. We elect the government but we don\u2019t elect the banks, we don\u2019t elect the corporations and so you need a grassroots pressure from below. We have to be with our leaders as long as they represent us but able to act independently the minute they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><\/div>\n<p>Nevertheless, he admits that he knows that it is impossible for the movement to achieve all its goals, because there is no perfect society or perfect political system. Politics are done by people, he says, and people are not perfect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best thing about the world is people and the worst thing about the world is people. When you talk about human nature you think of crime, murder, wars and you see that human beings are capable of very dark things. But then you see someone like Nelson Mandela, who for a political cause, was prepared to spend a big part of his life in prison. Then you see people who give up a lot of their lives to care for relatives or raising children. People do things which require a deep personal sacrifice and don\u2019t necessarily bring them any benefit. They have the capacity to be both selfish and selfless.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28143\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-28143 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28143 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/text-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript> Adam discussing with the public during &#8216;Theresa May Out&#8217; protest in Cardiff \/ Photography by Taz Rahman &#8211; amonocrhomedream.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I met him again at a People\u2019s Assembly event which hosted the group Social Workers against Austerity, I realized that I still wasn\u2019t clear about what to write as Adam\u2019s occupation. So, I asked him again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know. I\u2019m in between jobs at the moment. I used to work at an office before. Write that, office-worker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his unselfish services to the community of Cardiff, Adam admits that he still has a sense of unfulfilled destiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel that I never really realized my potential in life. I\u2019m still waiting for my career to begin. When I was 18 I had a lot of self-confidence. I\u2019m brilliant, I\u2019m going to do amazing things but then I hit 30 and I said oh! I have to start doing these amazing things that I thought I\u2019d do when I was 18, otherwise maybe I need to readjust my self-confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a problem with self-discipline. When I look at successful musicians or artists, they are very driven, whereas I am quite lazy. I always said I would do some writing but suddenly there was something more interesting to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, I think that I\u2019ve sacrificed a lot of time for community causes which have achieved things and this feels kind of satisfying. That maybe in your very small way when you leave the world you might have left in a slightly better way that it might have been if you weren\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MC, Style Councilor, Community Worker, Broadcaster, Hip Hop Ambassador, Popular Educator, Word-smith, Medicine Man, Intellectual Freedom Fighter, Fashion Model or Office-Worker. Above all, Adam Johannes is a Cardiff activist.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28146\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-28146 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/end-text-with-this.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/end-text-with-this.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/end-text-with-this-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/end-text-with-this-500x750.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28146 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/end-text-with-this.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/end-text-with-this.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/end-text-with-this-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/01\/end-text-with-this-500x750.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript> &#8216;Theresa May Out&#8217; Protest in Cardiff \/ Photography by Taz Rahman &#8211; amonochromedream.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Johannes, the founder and coordinator of the Cardiff People&#8217;s Assembly against Austerity talks about the movement, austerity and his outtake on politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":28122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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