Socially mediated counter insurgency in Minneapolis.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/02/26/amid-massive-security-presence-minneapolis-is-turning-to-grassroots-to-keep-the-peace/
https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/02/26/amid-massive-security-presence-minneapolis-is-turning-to-grassroots-to-keep-the-peace/
Minnesota Reformer
Amid massive security presence, Minneapolis is turning to grassroots to keep the peace - Minnesota Reformer
The city of Minneapolis is hoping work with grassroots community organizations and influential activists will help prevent a repeat of the fiery aftermath of the killing of George Floyd.
The truth is the US military doesn’t really care what you believe as long as you effectively comply with your orders and don’t disrupt operations or make them lose face. There’s a very real threat of people only joining the military to get training and bringing that experience back to their gang but that’s tangential to the above image.
Forwarded from Building Autonomy Ⓐ
"They want to stop the seasons. But today it's spring." 1977 Autonomia poster.
OTAS: operational thinking against the state
No police department has enough equipment or officers to effectively control the population of the area if enough of it’s population decide to rebel simply factoring in sheer numbers and will to act. But this is 10x as true for those that coordinates their…
This is one of the many tactics being deployed in Myanmar as front-liners stretch police and military resources thin to take pressure off the smaller demos and overall decrease repressive capacity.
How academically interesting...
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20584526-srg_field_force_modules
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20584526-srg_field_force_modules
www.documentcloud.org
NYPD's SRG Field Force Modules
Forwarded from Strike Force
Some on the ground analysis from Minneapolis right now:
"The thing that's lacking from last year is the variety of roles and the participation of people from outside the leftist milieu. Namely, there needs to be a more tactical approach to this protest instead of just using the aesthetics of militancy (the shield wall) without the actions that back it up (light mages, ranged attacks, fire mages, barricades). I keep hearing on the stream "stop throwing shit" people don't realize that even sporadic projectile usage can make cops hesitant to move forward. When facing a long line of riot cops, your best friend is distance. It's what exhausted the police outside the 3rd precinct.
Also the sideshow crowd that came out to the uprising was very effective, the cars blocking streets and doing burnouts to generate smoke provided a diversion and helped boost morale, almost like a "mounted bloc" if you will
Bottom line is the uprising last year was effective because it was an incredibly diverse cross section of the south Minneapolis population representing many different walks of life and bringing many different tactical approaches, and the collective intelligence that was developed organically in the streets
This time around I fear there's been too much specialization of the role of "front line militant" and it's making it easier for the cops to drive a wedge between that militant frontliner identity and the "peaceful protester" and the complete isolation of the looters as being entirely apolitical and outside the insurgency entirely instead of active participants in it and its most avant garde section. The looters have taken the mantra "Be water" to heart and decentralized the action allowing it to spread into all corners of the metro area, never staying in one place long enough to be apprehended by police while still expropriating thousands upon thousands potentially millions of dollars in products and doing just as much if not more in financial damages.
We need to avoid specialized roles, we need to get ahead of the badjacketing and white washing, we need to continue articulating why looting is good, why barricades are good, why throwing stuff at police defensively is good, we need to remind people that "be water" means we don't stay stuck at one location but move and flow freely, staying out of reach of the law when we need to and crashing like waves on them when the opportunity strikes. We cannot possibly hope to defeat the largest police mobilization in Minnesota history with symmetrical warfare tactics, we must fight them on our terms. The state has nothing but time, we have nothing but numbers, we win by attrition. We exhaust them, we waste their time, we deceive them, we distract them."
"The thing that's lacking from last year is the variety of roles and the participation of people from outside the leftist milieu. Namely, there needs to be a more tactical approach to this protest instead of just using the aesthetics of militancy (the shield wall) without the actions that back it up (light mages, ranged attacks, fire mages, barricades). I keep hearing on the stream "stop throwing shit" people don't realize that even sporadic projectile usage can make cops hesitant to move forward. When facing a long line of riot cops, your best friend is distance. It's what exhausted the police outside the 3rd precinct.
Also the sideshow crowd that came out to the uprising was very effective, the cars blocking streets and doing burnouts to generate smoke provided a diversion and helped boost morale, almost like a "mounted bloc" if you will
Bottom line is the uprising last year was effective because it was an incredibly diverse cross section of the south Minneapolis population representing many different walks of life and bringing many different tactical approaches, and the collective intelligence that was developed organically in the streets
This time around I fear there's been too much specialization of the role of "front line militant" and it's making it easier for the cops to drive a wedge between that militant frontliner identity and the "peaceful protester" and the complete isolation of the looters as being entirely apolitical and outside the insurgency entirely instead of active participants in it and its most avant garde section. The looters have taken the mantra "Be water" to heart and decentralized the action allowing it to spread into all corners of the metro area, never staying in one place long enough to be apprehended by police while still expropriating thousands upon thousands potentially millions of dollars in products and doing just as much if not more in financial damages.
We need to avoid specialized roles, we need to get ahead of the badjacketing and white washing, we need to continue articulating why looting is good, why barricades are good, why throwing stuff at police defensively is good, we need to remind people that "be water" means we don't stay stuck at one location but move and flow freely, staying out of reach of the law when we need to and crashing like waves on them when the opportunity strikes. We cannot possibly hope to defeat the largest police mobilization in Minnesota history with symmetrical warfare tactics, we must fight them on our terms. The state has nothing but time, we have nothing but numbers, we win by attrition. We exhaust them, we waste their time, we deceive them, we distract them."
Sun Tzu on "Be Water":
"Tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards.
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."
"Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."
"Tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards.
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."
"Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."
Forwarded from Chi Revolt for Black Lives
A leaked document from the Chicago PD Crime Prevention & Information Center describes the potential for decentralized encrypted communications to defeat surveillance by law enforcement, citing goTenna Mesh devices in particular.
goTenna Mesh:
https://gotennamesh.com
similar projects you can build yourself:
https://disaster.radio
https://www.meshtastic.org
goTenna Mesh:
https://gotennamesh.com
similar projects you can build yourself:
https://disaster.radio
https://www.meshtastic.org
Millions Turn Out to Protest and the Government Watches from Above
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/06/millions-turn-out-to-protest-and-the-government-watches-from-above/
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/06/millions-turn-out-to-protest-and-the-government-watches-from-above/
Project On Government Oversight
Millions Turn Out to Protest and the Government Watches from Above
An unmanned aircraft synonymous with the war on terror circled Minneapolis for nearly two hours on May 29, as masses of people protested the police killing of George Floyd below.
Forwarded from Updates from Israstine
Comparative infographics on the types of missiles used by Hamas fighters.
We are of the opinion that Israeli state leaders and media are being honest here. That there’s more of a threat to their settler project from dispersed popular riots like those that happened during the 1st intifada throughout Palestine than from Hamas et al’s rocket barrages or specialized military engagements concentrated in Gaza with increasing sectarian power concentration or even previous waves of suicide bombings etc.