pixie
v.— «I went on rallies for example, but I never really did that thing of kind of living in the trees and being there when evictions were happening. But things I did were more like ‘pixieing.’ So at that time I was going along in the middle of the night and you know putting knives in tyres of the Landrovers [sic] that the security guards were in, and you know, or otherwise when they started putting out signs for where the road was going to go…I’d be out there moving them somewhere else.» —“Covert Repertoires: ecotage in the UK” by Alexandra Plows, Derek Wall, Brian Doherty Social Movement Studies Oct., 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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