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"individual participants wore an outer layer of white coveralls with padding underneath, work helmets, goggles, boots, and gas masks. It was important for everyone to wear this stuff, so the entire group was able to withstand attack without breaking ranks.
Here’s a better look at how materials were layered under the coveralls. Note the cardboard outer shell, foam inner padding, welding gloves. The whole kit is assembled on the spot, so it can’t be too complex. Often life vests were used for this.
A common shoulder armor design below. It’s just a rectangular slab of foam rubber with a hole cut in the top, affixed around the shoulders and waist with duct tape.
Tute Bianche gear was built out of cheap or discarded industrial materials by people with no money living in squats and fighting for survival, and a lot of them were artists to boot, so there was a lot of innovation and self-expression to be found. Armor made of plastic water bottles was common.
Here are some samurai-style helmets, to protect the back
Here’s a better look at how materials were layered under the coveralls. Note the cardboard outer shell, foam inner padding, welding gloves. The whole kit is assembled on the spot, so it can’t be too complex. Often life vests were used for this.
A common shoulder armor design below. It’s just a rectangular slab of foam rubber with a hole cut in the top, affixed around the shoulders and waist with duct tape.
Tute Bianche gear was built out of cheap or discarded industrial materials by people with no money living in squats and fighting for survival, and a lot of them were artists to boot, so there was a lot of innovation and self-expression to be found. Armor made of plastic water bottles was common.
Here are some samurai-style helmets, to protect the back
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"While some demonstrators held the front line, others were equipped as skirmishers with personal-sized shields. These are mobile troops who can nimbly move to where they’re needed and fortify the defense against police incursions, usually unarmed aside from the shields. I’ve been seeing a lot of folks geared up like this in Portland lately. Couple nights ago, they pushed a line of those Feds back into the Courthouse.
Sometimes, White Overall skirmishers were armed with 2x4s or other long and stout objects, to strike helmeted police over the top of the shield line and drive them back during clashes.
In addition to the tubes or shields in front, big marches often included a second rank of shields pointed upwards to fend off munitions that were shot or thrown over the front line. These can be seen clearly in the background of this photo of a police line being overwhelmed:
Here’s how that second rank of shields works, from a longer view. Note the spaces between ranks — this keeps folks from tripping over each
Sometimes, White Overall skirmishers were armed with 2x4s or other long and stout objects, to strike helmeted police over the top of the shield line and drive them back during clashes.
In addition to the tubes or shields in front, big marches often included a second rank of shields pointed upwards to fend off munitions that were shot or thrown over the front line. These can be seen clearly in the background of this photo of a police line being overwhelmed:
Here’s how that second rank of shields works, from a longer view. Note the spaces between ranks — this keeps folks from tripping over each
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"Finally, our studies of the preparatory stages of all revolutions bring us to the conclusion that not a single revolution has originated in parliaments or in any other representative assembly. All began with the people. And no revolution has appeared in full armor — born, like Minerva out of the head of Jupiter, in a day. They all had their periods of incubation during which the masses were very slowly becoming imbued with the revolutionary spirit, grew bolder, commenced to hope, and step by step emerged from their former indifference and resignation. And the awakening of the revolutionary spirit always took place in such a manner that at first, single individuals, deeply moved by the existing state of things, protested against it, one by one. Many perished, “uselessly,” the armchair critic would say. But the indifference of society was shaken by these progenitors. The dullest and most narrow-minded people were compelled to reflect, “Why should men, young, sincere, and full of strength, sacrifice their lives in this way?” It was impossible to remain indifferent; it was necessary to take a stand, for, or against: thought was awakening. Then, little by little, small groups came to be imbued with the same spirit of revolt; they also rebelled — sometimes in the hope of local success — in strikes or in small revolts against some official whom they disliked, or in order to get food for their hungry children, but frequently also without any hope of success: simply because the conditions grew unbearable. Not one, or two, or tens, but hundreds of similar revolts have preceded and must precede every revolution."
-Pyotr Kropotkin
-Pyotr Kropotkin
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Protesters build guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos's house after his wealth hits $200B
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/protesters-build-guillotine-in-front-of-jeff-bezoss-house-after-his-wealth-hits-200b
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Washington Examiner
Protesters build guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos's house after his wealth hits $200B
Protesters on Thursday responded to a report that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the first man to be worth $200 billion by building a guillotine in front of his Washington house.
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Nine Mile Ride: Why Police Reform Always Results in More Police Violence, Not Less - Read more: https://enoughisenough14.org/2020/08/31/nine-mile-ride-why-police-reform-always-results-in-more-police-violence-not-less/
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Enough 14 -- Its time to revolt! - -Nine Mile Ride: Why Police Reform Always Results in More Police Violence, Not Less
The Albuquerque Police Department is notoriously among the most lethal police departments in the United States.