redstar2000
30th August 2004, 00:42
DIRECT ACTION TACTICS IN THE FACE OF THE NYPD
So the question then is what are we doing Sunday and through the convention?
Activists with experience in direct actions will be crucial for the success of the day. Instead of lock-downs and ritualized civil disobedience, the task of the street radicals will be to help coordinate the crowds of first-timers, keeping them in the streets and in motion. With the kind of numbers being projected, we need to facilitate constant motion on the part of the crowd and keep the city filled throughout the week.
Chants should be raised that call for protests all week. This is key. The numbers must stay in the street beyond Sunday. Particular tactics of confrontation have been superseded by the numbers. That is the action. We will jam the city by existing. We will confront the attempt to cow us into going home by staying in the street. Do not court arrest. Even if we try to avoid it, they may grab us anyway. So just keep moving and keeping people in the street.
http://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/feature/r...ndex.php#105379 (http://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/feature/rate/105379/index.php#105379)
Although this article is concerned with the protests in New York City, I think it contains important advice to people doing direct action in any urban situation.
The basic idea is that we should avoid violent (and hopeless) confrontations with masses of pigs...and instead, attack another target where the police haven't arrived.
They can't "guard" everything.
An excellent article!
:redstar2000:
The Redstar2000 Papers (http://www.redstar2000papers.fightcapitalism.net)
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So the question then is what are we doing Sunday and through the convention?
Activists with experience in direct actions will be crucial for the success of the day. Instead of lock-downs and ritualized civil disobedience, the task of the street radicals will be to help coordinate the crowds of first-timers, keeping them in the streets and in motion. With the kind of numbers being projected, we need to facilitate constant motion on the part of the crowd and keep the city filled throughout the week.
Chants should be raised that call for protests all week. This is key. The numbers must stay in the street beyond Sunday. Particular tactics of confrontation have been superseded by the numbers. That is the action. We will jam the city by existing. We will confront the attempt to cow us into going home by staying in the street. Do not court arrest. Even if we try to avoid it, they may grab us anyway. So just keep moving and keeping people in the street.
http://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/feature/r...ndex.php#105379 (http://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/feature/rate/105379/index.php#105379)
Although this article is concerned with the protests in New York City, I think it contains important advice to people doing direct action in any urban situation.
The basic idea is that we should avoid violent (and hopeless) confrontations with masses of pigs...and instead, attack another target where the police haven't arrived.
They can't "guard" everything.
An excellent article!
:redstar2000:
The Redstar2000 Papers (http://www.redstar2000papers.fightcapitalism.net)
A site about communist ideas