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Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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There might be a protest near you today. (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 6 months ago by horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world to c/Resist@fedia.io
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There's a protest planned for today near you. If you'd like to attend below is a bit of info.

Some more media mentions, mostly local and brief:

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[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The instant anything is posted on here it's already been scraped. Know this. Act accordingly.

Some tips to help you out

  • don’t take your phones to the protest
  • if you take a burner, don’t take it home. buy it, and trash it at the protest.
  • don’t take anything that could identify you as you
  • superglue and baking soda on your fingerprints. don’t go crazy, just enough to make printing you impossible/difficult
  • write any important phone numbers on your arm or ankle in permanent marker if you can’t remember them
  • stuff a couple hundred dollars for bail in your shoe
  • don’t give ANYONE your real name. don’t care how hot they are or how impassioned they are, just fucking don’t
  • designate one trusted individual to come get you from jail. they are not to bring their phone, they should park at least 1/4 mile away and walk to get you(long enough to realize you’re being tailed by police).

Pay attention to your surroundings, specifically the movement of officers/agents. if they’re running you should be too. if there’s a large group marching or a wall marching, leave immediately and regroup.

ICE will be there. they will be picking people up. many of them not illegal. if you’re not white, wear makeup if you can get away with it. paint your face with state colors if need be. not a mask, so it shouldn’t be covered by “no-mask” states.

Know your rights. Bring the proof of your rights. Force them to acknowledge your rights.

Stream everything.

If you are picked up you will;

  • go on a list
  • be unlawfully monitored
  • become a link in a larger web to ensnare organizers

You will now go dark for at least a month. No social media posts about the protests, no discussions about the protests, nothing. After that, it should be difficult to pair your online activity with your real world activities.

If you can’t make it to the protests, record the streams, share them online, pressure the public to demand answers for the crimes committed by the officers/agents.

One last thing.

There will undoubtedly be people there to provoke the protests. do not let them. once one incident of violence is determined all bets off and the police will become physically involved.

Trust no one, question everything, power to the people. 🫵

This message from a colleague will live here until the death of Lemmy

For further research here's a great video on mutual aid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfJNbCBqYV8

[–] orvorn@slrpnk.net 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do not write a phone number on your arm if that number could be used to identify you or your emergency contact. Defeats the purpose of all the other anonymizing steps.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The phone number should be of a lawyer

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Do NOT attend this event.

No one can identify the organizers. It's being held without the involvement of any group of organized leftists.

The guidance posted in this thread recommends streaming of video evidence and propagation of that video. This is a blatant violation of operational security.

Revolutionary events are never shared with major media outlets. Major media outlets would not propagate them.

Do NOT attend this event. You WILL be identified by your oppressors. It WILL become a threat to your security. We CANNOT save you from the consequences.

Do NOT attend this event.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Every action has a level of risk. Doing nothing is not acceptable.

I see you.

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Every action has a level of risk. Doing nothing is not acceptable.

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I see you.

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Given all the evidence, it would be extremely unwise to attend this event.

The fact that you felt the need to speak as a moderator instead of defeating my claims with the facts and reason you should've had before you supported it should serve as a red flag to for yourself and others.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Looking forward to your ideas of things that should be done.

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Looking forward to your explanation of which leftist organization organized this event and how streaming video facilitates operational security.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Wait, ignoring all of the other stuff, why does protest and action have to be leftist to be legit?

There are other segments protesting, including democrats, who are not leftist.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Here's who's organizing it, from the post.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/04/anti-trump-state-capitol-protests-february-5/

Don't stream. But you need to explore what revolutionary optimism is.

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

After decades engaging theory and praxis, after a half dozen books on the specific topic, after suggesting the core text on the topic to you, I now need to watch some fuckhead's video to explain the basics?

I'm not convinced. Not even a little bit.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That fuckhead has been organizing for the past 15 years. You're unwilling to do any research outside of what you've read and can reinforce yourself. You weren't aware of this protest before you read it on the news and since you didn't hear it through the grapevine you don't trust it as you cannot control it. You are the very example of a terminally online leftist. Touch grass. There's no conspiracy against you here. And you're getting defensive. You might want to investigate why.

With all your learned reasoning why don't you define in your own words what revolutionary optimism is. I'm not referring to the dua lipa song.

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A general strike would be far more effective and safer than people showing up to mass facial recognition scanning event.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

I don't see how participating in a general strike would serve to identify you any less than marching.

And every little bit helps. Of course, if you're a person who's comfortable with a higher level of risk which might allow you do take "more subversive" actions, you might be wise to save your efforts for those, and forgo going to a march.

But that's not everyone, and we're not gatekeeping resistance.

[–] h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Fuck off with this living in fear bullshit.