- KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]·3 years ago
- Don't fall for traps like cops retreating from a precinct. When they give up a position, move like water. Do not try to occupy a location - they'll just drive as many sources of disruption into that location as possible.
- Stay in contact with the residential communities around your protest. You depend on their support and if you lose them, you lose a lot of your ability to persuade.
- Medics need to have an active plan for how to get a critically injured individual to the nearest hospital with the assumption that the cops will do everything in their power to prevent EMS from approaching.
- Medic and mutual-aid setups should be done in such a way that they can be moved quickly. Cops will attack them. Keep things in closed, airtight containers.
- Maintain a bike line around the main body of the protest at the distance of roughly one block - try to redirect cars before they get close enough to be in conflict with the crowd in the first place.
- The media will turn on you within a week. Prepare for that.