Police may also feign kettles in order to cause a protest to disperse.

Protests that move quickly are harder to kettle (but are easier to split up as people get left behind). Something important to note is that kettles are used by police to gather intelligence. Police may tell you that you will be allowed to leave if you provide your name and your address, if you give information about other protestors etc. Police can and will lie to you, do not trust them. Never talk to cops. Being trapped in a kettle is stressful. Police may decide to arrest a few of you or all of you. Their goal is to gather information and to demoralize you. They might threaten or harass you. Your goal should be to remain calm and to help the people around you remain calm. Remember if nobody talks, everyone walks.

True and awesome: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5gk4jz/this-canadian-artist-halted-pipeline-development-by-copyrighting-his-land-as-a-work-of-art-983

"Your community is situated in a popular Canadian drilling region. Has there been more conflict there, apart from yours?

There's been all kinds of stuff that's happened in my area that never hits the papers. Supposedly, someone blew up a pipe just across the border in Tomslake, BC.

And there was one sour gas well that blew right on the same road two or three kilometers from the alleged bombing site. The pipe actually blew out from sand corrosion on an elbow from fracking—they hadn't cleaned it out properly—and that thing blew for eight hours. The people in that area had to self-evacuate. Nobody came.

Even when they called 911 they didn't come. Eight hours of "jet engine" blasting of sour gas into the atmosphere. Cattle lost their fetuses, horses got sick, and one of the women who lives nearby is sick, probably for life."

This is a protest. His refusal is saving lives and land. Imagine the whole community doing this. A whole city. Region. Tribe.

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January 20, 2023 - Mobile protest BBQ during general strike in France to stop the retirement age from being raised from 62 to 64.

Beautiful to see two things French people are passionate about coming together, strikes & food.

Big Warning

If you see a police car or a cop with a speaker looking thing on it, FUCKING RUN. It's known as an LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device), a device that, when activated, can permanently damage your hearing and cause serious harm. If you're too close, you'll be left in a lot of pain and squirming on the ground permanently deaf. Ear plugs do not work. Unless you have one of those shooting range headphones, you do not stand a chance against them. Again, if you see them pull up, RUN. This is what they look like.

Stay safe.

Anti-war marchers in St Petersburg protest against Vladimir Putin’s decision to authorise a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday night.

Photograph: Anton Vaganov/Reuters

By copyrighting his property as an artwork, he has prevented oil companies from drilling on it.

Peter Von Tiesenhausen has developed artworks all over his property in northern Alberta.  There’s a boat woven from sticks that is gradually being reclaimed by the land; there is a fence that he adds to each year of his life, and there are many “watching” trees, with eyes scored into their bark.

Oil interests pester him continually about drilling on his land.  His repeated rebuffing of their advances lead them to move toward arbitration.  They made it very clear that he only owned the top 6 inches of soil, and they had rights to anything underneath.  He then, off the top of his head, threatened them that he would sue damages if they disturbed his 6 inches, for the entire property is an artwork.  Any disturbance would compromise the work, and he would sue.

Immediately after that meeting, he called a lawyer (who is also an art collector) and asked if his intuitive threat would actually hold legally.  The lawyer visited, saw the scope of the work on the property, and wrote a document protecting the artwork.

The oil companies have kept their distance ever since.

This is but one example of Peter’s ability to negotiate quickly on his feet, and to find solutions that defy expectations.

I feel like this is really important. 

Art as resistance

Hey folks, this is not your typical post about incorrect quotes.

I want to address a serious issue today, and most of you probably know what’s been going on in the US.

The killing of George Floyd started another serious and necessary debate on Police brutality in the states. (And I think not just there. Every country is affected in some way or another.)

My heart doesn’t ache, no. My heart is bleeding and crying out of pain about what has been going on for days now. What people have been going through for years and years. This is not the first case of police brutality against POC, nor the second, and it probably isn’t the last one.

It happened so many times already that I can’t count them all. Our world has lost so many beautiful souls to this never-ending issue. Additionally to this, we lost so many brothers and sisters of color who were part of the LGBTQ+ community too. Even though it is pride month, I can’t enjoy and celebrate it as much as I want to.

But now is the time to act. Now more than ever! We all have a voice, and I’m sure as hell using mine. And I want you to do the same.

40 Ways you can help right now shows you different techniques and approaches to support the #blacklivesmatter movement in various forms.

Everyone’s able to do something. Even if you don’t have the money to donate, or you’re not from the US, share articles, draw attention to it in some way. Being silent about this puts you on the side of the offenders.

I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand with all of you!!! Credit goes to @sfbucketlist on instagram for these 40 ways you can help right now.

I’m loving these protest pups!

Bravooo 4 every woman who stands UP every day fighting against everything.

PLEASE PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS, THE MAINSTREAM WILL NOT COVER IT TUMBLR AND TWITTER ARE OUR ONLY FORMS OF SPREADING THIS NEWS 

WE WERE LESS THAN 50 UNARMED TEENAGERS PEACEFULLY PROTESTING AND 200 COPS CAME SWINGING WITH BATONS. OUR ONLY WEAPONS WERE OUR VOICES AND CARDBOARD SIGNS YET THEY STILL ATTACKED BECAUSE OUR TRUTH THREATENED AND SCARED THE POLICE THAT MUCH. 

THIS IS THE AMERICA WE LIVE IN. I DIDN’T WANT TO BELIEVE IT BUT IT’S TRUE. 

WAKE UP EVERYONE. 

this is literally happening right now proud af of this generation

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Ferguson Protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota. where a girl was run over by a car who plowed through the protestors. But we’re the “savages.”

NYC 11/25/14 - Part 3

Hand gestures of protest around the world.

I’ve been on vacation and am returning to the real world now, and I’m sure what I’m about to write will be repetitive for some. But I can’t not write it, and I hope that you share it because tomorrow, October 1, has the potential to be a historic day for Hong Kong, good or bad.

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