Two resources above for affinity group organizing. These are super important units of people used to working together in protest situations and can help keep each other safe and accomplish goals of protests.

Have you told your friends about Telegram yet? You should. It's super easy and really cool, and the folks in Hong Kong and Belorus and Portland are using it to help spread information quickly and anonymously.
Tell them to:
1. Download the Telegram app
2. Set up a profile that hides their number and their real name.
3. Use the search feature to find @PhillyURR, @OTGDispatch, @CommsDirectory and many many more channels just chock full of useful and relevant info. Best thing is that you don't even have to doxx yourself to your boss while exploring your leftism!

Wanna chat with us about protest roles? Message @GrittyBot

What's your plan if cell and email gets compromised or goes down? Analog, baybeeeeez

Spin scooters is giving away free helmets. Go to spin.app/helmet to claim one and use coupon code “SPINSAFE” for free shipping. You may have to make an account, but you don’t have to input payment info after you apply the coupon. Spread the word and protect your head!

Hey, Camp JTD can use some ice (the good kind not the pigs), electrolyte powder, and gatorade.

If we account for the total number of people who sought assistance at Office of Homeless Affairs in 2019, at least 1 in 88 Philadelphians were homeless last year.

"The economy of slavery wasn’t relegated to the South: it crossed state lines, and even states with low slave-holding populations were profiting from the labor of the enslaved. From tobacco cultivation in Virginia to shipbuilding in Rhode Island, industries throughout the states both supported, and were supported by, slavery. By 1850, 80% of American exports were the product of slave labor. The estimated value of enslaved people increased 500% between 1790 and 1860, from $200 million to around $3.059 billion. Slavery’s profitability far outweighed the moral outrage it engendered… The American South before the Civil War was the low-wage—actually, the no-wage—anchor of the first "

https://regenerationmag.org/understanding-racial-capitalism/

Be sure to set a password on your telegram account!

Billed as “a protestor’s guide to ‘less-lethal’ weaponry,” this zine is an incredibly thorough introduction to commonly used police weapons. The zine provides a detailed look at all different types of weapons including electrical weapons (such as the TASER), chemical weapons (tear gas, pepper spray, and others), projectiles (pepper balls, rubber bullets, bean bags, flash-bang grenades). The zine ends with some suggestions on how to protect yourself from these weapons.

#teargas #resources #pdf

Another innocent person is fighting for their life in Milwaukee in critical condition because Police shot them several times in the back. They wonder why we protest. Why we sometimes riot. MLK told all of us why riots happen. Meanwhile our "leaders" have called for another winter of delay. If we lose this life it would be the 3rd taken in 3 days by officers. Ramon Lopez and Trafford Pellerin are gone. It is now our time to stand up and abolish the police!

"A riot is the language of the unheard. Our nations summer's of riots are caused by our nations winter's of delay." MLK said "But it is not enough for me to stay before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard"

Excerpt from "The Other America" March 14th 1968