Category: practical
Elements of a Barricade
Warrior Crowd Control & Riot Manual
“Crowd control refers to the organized use of force to stop,.limit and/or disperse large, hostile groups. As a warrior, it may be necessary to carry out crowd control against mobs of settlers, vigilantes, drunk hooligans, etc.
Riots occur when large, hostile groups gather & carry out property destruction & looting, frequently fighting with police who are deployed to carry out crowd control. As a member of the resistance, it may be necessary for you to engage in riots.
This manual is divided into 2 main sections: Crowd Control & Riot Training. Although similar, some important differences exist between the two. While crowd controls teaches you how to control an unorganized crowd, riot training focuses on countering. police crowd control tactics & techniques. By knowing the methods of both, you will be better prepared to carry one out, & to counter the other. Crowd Control & Riots can occur in urban, suburban or rural settings.”
Pepperspray, CS, & Other “Less-Lethal” Weapons
A zine with information about pepperspray and the other weapons used by police which get labeled “less-lethal”.
Not Liking Someone Doesn’t Mean They’re a Cop: on Badjacketing
“what is bad-jacketing?
“Bad-jacketing” (or “cop-jacketing,” “fed-jacketing,” or “snitch-jacketing”) is the practice of accusing people of being a cop, informant, fascist, or other kind of bad actor on specious or non-existent evidence.
The term has been used since at least the 1960s, where it primarily described COINTELPRO operations that bad-jacketed legitimate members of the Black Panther Party and other organisations. It was, ironically, rumours from infiltrators consolidating their own positions that led to organisations not only isolating but, in some cases, severely beating or executing innocent individuals.”
Defend Pride Direct Action Handbook
“Queer people are under attack. Homophobia and transphobia never really went away completely, but we are living through a historic resurgence. Across the United States, Republican politicians have been working to pass hundreds of bills attacking LGBTQ+ people. Meanwhile in the streets, violence against us is steadily increasing, and Proud Boys, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups attack, harass, and distrupt LGBTQ+ events. Times are tough, but we’ve been here before. And we know what it takes to survive.”
We Got This! Volume One: Safe Calls, Screening and Buddy Systems for Sex Workers
“As sex workers, we are often barred from putting basic protections in place while we work (eg working at a brothel with other workers, openly discussing services).
In spite of this, we use bazillions of genius little tricks to work how we want. This zine isn’t about how we should work. It’s just about sharing how we actually work so we can think creatively about our safety and decide for ourselves from all the possibilities”
Survival in Solitary: A manual written by & for people living in control units
“The federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, went on permanent lock down in 1983. This created the first “control unit”. Now, in addition to the federal government, some forty states have built these “maxi-maxi” prisons — representations of the angry and cruel repression that grips our country today. Human beings are put alone in a small cell with double steel doors and no window for 23 hours a day. No program, no work, no education, meals alone, and maybe one hour by oneself in a bare dog-run outside. A religious task force calls such conditions psychological pain and agony tantamount to torture. It is torture. Here, now, in the following pages, people who are captives in these cells write about what goes on and how you can survive…”
Confidence. Courage. Trust. A Proposal For Security Culture
“This proposal for security culture is based on reframing on shifting our focus from fear to confidence, from risk aversion to courage, from isolation to connection, and from suspicion to trust.”
Stop Huntin’ Sheep: A Guide to Creating Safer Networks
“There appears to be a rise in known infiltration investigations in North American radical networks, with thorough destabilizing effects on our capacities to struggle, comrades facing heavy repression and of course, the less obvious consequences on our personal mental states. The place that we start is with dialogue. “