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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Do brainstorm general ideas about how to support people who need it and stymie the efforts of fascists
Do share thoughts on how to be personally prepared for subversive action

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Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation. But this is not always the most effective strategy.

Cross posting from elsewhere since it's a good read

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Large black sweatpants (no logos)
Large black hoodie (no logos)
Boots (these don't need to be black, you'll want them to appear "civilian")
Jersey gloves
Black balaclava (one of the thin "helmet sock" ones)
Pepper spray
Backpack or drawstring bag

Buy as many of these from thrift stores as possible. Cut the cuffs off of the sweatpant legs. Practice putting on and taking off this gear over your street clothes, in and out of whatever bag you're toting.

This is something you can do right now to be ready to act when the need arises.

[–] potatopotato 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Why do you cut the sweatpant cuffs off?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Easier to take off quickly, don't want to be the person caught stumbling with the cuff hooked on your ankles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

And put back on over the boots

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