Infoshop.io: Protests

Protests are a type of direct action that can include demonstrations, marches, rallies, counter-demonstrations; sit-ins, strikes, walkouts, mutinies, pickets, boycotts, civil disobedience, and disruptions. The resources below can help you navigate and succeed in these kinds of actions.

An Activist's Guide to Basic First Aid

An introductory guide to health care on the ground at political demonstrations: what to bring, what to do, and what not to do

Topics: health, introduction, protests
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Black Cross Collective
Sources: http://blackcrosscollective.org/

Blocs, Black and Otherwise

This zine compiles two texts by CrimethInc that provide an excellent introduction on how to participate in and organize black blocs.

The first is 'Blocs, Black and Otherwise' that appeared in Profane Existence #43 and CrimethInc’s Recipes for Disaster. Additionally, second piece titled 'Fashion Tips for the Brave' is included.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, protests
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Sprout Anarchist Collective
Sources: http://sproutac.org/

Direct Action Survival Guide

Tools to master when considering direct actions. This guide covers affinity groups, personal and group health, police and jail questions, first aid, and preparation.

Topics: direct-action, health, introduction, protests, surveillance
Authors: Scott Weinstein
Date: 2003

Don't Talk to Police or the FBI

The cops and the FBI are not your friends, they are agents of the fascist police state we are opposing.

Topics: direct-action, militarism, posters, protests
Authors: Anonymous

Excited Delirium

A protestor's guide to less-lethal police weaponry including an introduction to taser-proof jackets. Covers stun guns, tasers, stingers, stun shields, CS gas, CN gas, CR gas, pepper spray, riot guns, sprays, rubber balls, baton rounds, pepperballs, flash bangs, batons, pain rays, LRADs, water cannons, electrified water cannons, dazzlers, and incapacitators.

Topics: direct-action, introduction, militarism, protests
Authors: Anonymous

March Hare Communication Security Guide

This guide will walk you through the steps needed to encrypt your laptop, phone, email, web browsing, and text messages, by activists, for activists.

Topics: introduction, protests, surveillance
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: March Hare Communications Collective
Date: December 2016
Sources: http://marchhare.io/

Security Culture

A Handbook for Activists. This is a handbook for the Canadian activist who is interested in creating and maintaining security awareness and culture in the radical movements.

Topics: direct-action, police, protests, surveillance
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Tao.CA
Date: 2001
Sources: http://tao.ca/

Self as Other

Reflections on Self Care

Topics: anarchism, health, introduction, protests
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: CrimethInc
Sources: http://www.crimethinc.com/

Strike

A Guide To Walking Out

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, introduction, protests
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Solidarity Federation
Sources: http://solfed.org.uk/?q=local/north-london

The Call

The youth are waiting, day after day. They wait for their time; as do the workers, even the old. They all ways, those who are discontented and who reflect. They are waiting for a force to arise, something they will be part of; a kind of new international that will not make the same mistakes as the previous ones. They wait for a chance to get rid of the past once and for all--for something new to begin. We have begun.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, introduction, protests, theory
Authors: The Invisible Committee
Editors: Liam Sionnach
Publisher: The institute for experimental freedom
Date: December, 2007

The New State Repression

Today's political repression differs fundamentally from the repression practiced around the world in the past. The most basic difference is on the level of stragy--the general approach of the state, the outlook of the ruling class. Their belief is that insurgency is not an occasional, erratic idiosyncrasy but a constant occurrence--permanent insurgency, which calls for a strategy of permanent repression as the full-time task of the security forces.

Topics: introduction, militarism, police, protests, surveillance
Authors: Ken Lawrence, Kristian Williams
Publisher: Tarantula Publishing and Distribution
Date: 2006
Sources: http://www.socialwar.net/