If you don't understand what Privilege/White Privilege means, it would help to read about it.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Privilege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studies#White_privilege

#Seattle is going to ban tear gas for 30 days it seems.

https://twitter.com/seattletimes/status/1269032189200654337

If you're arrested, pee yourself

#Boston https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/06/05/mbta-bus-police-protests

https://imgur.com/K3tG3HB.mp4

I feel bad for that kid :(

CW: Blood/Bruise

https://t.me/BLMProtestsCW/13

#LAPD staging in Dodgers Stadium Lot 13

Sent by a comrade

#art
Hey, so, I made an edited video in support of the current protests and unrest. CW for police brutality (no blood however) and violence. I hope it resonates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybnuCBstJgw

CW: Authority abuse

Remember authority abuse is a global issue.

Our friends from Palestine wanted to share this and say they stand in #Solidarity and that we shouldn't forget them:

https://t.me/BLMProtestsCW/14

freeUSmap.live is ready for prime time use! Use it to share locations of cordons, supply drops, public restrooms, and whatever other points on a map you think would be helpful as we protest

The reason they are banning it is likely because they ran out - https://twitter.com/koush/status/1269041231570464768

In an effort to build the decentralized widespread use of organizing on telegram, considering its value for on-the-ground realtime coordination and comms for keeping people safe from police riots and attacks, here is a list of channels and chats focused on current uprisings.

If you know any that aren't included here, or want to start one for your area, please do it.
DM @BLMProtestsBot to add a new entry.

NATIONWIDE UPDATE CHANNELS
@BLMProtests
@StrikeForce2020 (+ chat)

ANNOUNCEMENT CHANNELS ↓

- ATLANTA: Channel
- CHICAGO: Channel
- GRAND RAPIDS: Channel
- IOWA CITY: Channel
- KANSAS CITY: Channel
- LANSING: Channel
- LOS ANGELES: Channel
- LOUISVILLE: Channel
- MINNEAPOLIS: Channel1, Channel2
- NYC: Channel
- OLYMPIA: Channel
- PHILADELPHIA: Channel
- RICHMOND: Channel
- SANTA CRUZ: currently inactive
- SF / BAY AREA: Channel
- TAMPA: Channel
- TUCSON: Channel
- WASHINGTON DC: Channel

POLICE SCANNER CHANNELS ↓

- BOSTON: Channel
- CHICAGO: Channel
- LONG ISLAND: Channel
- MINNEAPOLIS: Channel
- PHILADELPHIA: Channel
- RICHMOND: Channel
- SEATTLE: Channel
- TAMPA: Channel

CHAT / COORDINATION CHANNELS ↓

- NATIONWIDE: Channel
- BOSTON: private for now
- CHICAGO: Channel
- DALLAS: Chat
- HOUSTON: Chat
- IOWA CITY: Channel
- OLYMPIA: Channel
- PORTLAND: Chat
- RICHMOND: Chat
- SF / BAY AREA: Chat1, Chat2, Chat3
- SEATTLE: Chat
- WASHINGTON DC: Chat
- WESTERN NEW YORK (BUFFALO, ROCHESTER): Channel

Tell everyone you know to download Signal and Telegram! These are essential tools for fluid and safe coordination on the ground right now.

Use good opsec, hide your phone number and set a user name. One of the key advantages telegram offers over signal is phone number anonymity.

Stay dangerous and help each stay safe. Be water! Solidarity.

#BLMRevList
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We have some suggestions on how to deal with #LRAD that cost very little money to implement. This post was compiled by Alexander for https://t.me/PDXagainstpolicebrutality:

If a person can get a large clear plastic food lid and some packing tape or bungee cords it can be fashioned into an buckler that can be worn on the upper arm to deflect LRAD from the head while keeping both hands free.

Effectively, one can take a stance that has their forearm held up parallel with the shoulder, and shoulder in a stance that places the buckler between one's head and the source of the LDAR. Additionally because its clear it still affords visibility.

It is a medusa shield, easily physically broken, but defensive against the medusa alone. If there is no medusa then there is no other real function to the medusa shield.

Your best bet is to either diffuse or deflect the sound. A flat hard object like shiny poster board or plastic or metal is really good at deflecting, however it will deflect the beam in another direction while still keeping the sound itself dangerous. Think of it like a laser bouncing off a mirror, or water off the edge of a pond. If you have a hard reflective thing with a whole bunch of weird shapes that are irregular it will diffuse the sound in multiple directions, effectively canceling out the sound in the immediate vicinity to a level that is more like a lawnmower.

And now, a more detailed explanation:

Okay, so, to understand the why behind the need for the following defense measures, you first have to understand how audio works. That basic first part is a stumbling block that leads many to just go 'oh well I'll just stuff foam earplugs in and hope for the best' but the reality is that foam earplugs do precisely nothing to stop the sound, and may in fact worsen its effects.
So, when we talk about sound, what we are really talking about is moving air, like wind. Different sounds have different shapes. the sound of a clap, something pretty high frequency, has very fast and small waves, where something like bass through a speaker can have very large waves. and like ripples on a pond, when these waves hit other things, they bounce off, and become smaller waves. In terms of what we hear, any place where one wave intersects another the intersection is referred to as phasing. When two sound waves phase through each other, they cancel each other out. The principle behind noise cancellation is a small speaker that is broadcasting noise at the exact same volume as another, but with all the audio peaks and valleys completely inverted. In a weird way one is using extreme noise to create silence.

These waves all have a very specific size and shape, and it is all energy that is moving. The laws of thermodynamics say energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed. Or in the eco-friendly buzz words, "The solution to pollution is dilution". If the energy is dispersed well enough, then its presence becomes null and non-impactful.

Sound's size and shape is measurable. The height and strength of the wave is called amplitude, measured in decibels (dB) or feet, and the space between the waves, how often it repeats, is called frequency and is measured in hertz (Hz) or cycles per second interchangeably 1:1. That is, 1 cycle and 1 hertz are the same thing. It just depends which textbook you're reading. For this purpose though we will be dealing in Hz and decibels. The math here is, 2 decibels is twice as loud as one decibel, and 3 decibels is three times as loud as 2 decibels, increasing in strength logarithmically, and frequency is just linear e,g. 1 is one and 2 is 2. Now, lets get to the quick of it.

There are four basic means of controlling and manipulating sound

1) Phasing. That is, intersecting one soundwave with another identical inverted soundwave to completely cancel each other out.
2) Deflection. That is, literally bouncing the wave away with a surface too hard for the sound to penetrate.