Sometimes to lose is in fact to WIN
skywarrior | 25.11.2010 09:38 | Education | Repression | Social Struggles
I spent most of yesterday with my girlfirend in a police kettle, held against my will. I watched young people being brutalised by the police. Some being beaten while they were on the ground. hit many times over by these thugs they call the TSG.
During this time I and many others had to sustain abuse from officers of the law. Many of them with smug looks on their faces, taunting young people about the cold and the fact they couldn't use toilets. Despite the lies in the media about water and toilets being provided this was an outright fabrication.
This clearly from the start was the police revenge for Millbank. It was clear to me when they employed the services of the G20 commander that this was going to be brutal and so it proved to be. We only have to remind ourselves of the senseless manslaughter of Ian Tomlinson to fully understand what these thugs are capable of in kettle situations.
1000s of young and old people alike left that kettle last night while a deep sense of anger. Lets cultivate that anger. What happened yesterday was an attempt to break the spirit of our future. Lets not allow them to break us. I was encouraged when I left the police cordon last night at around 7pm t, when I witnessed the sound system blasting out Killing in the Name of by Rage Against the Machine. To hear hundreds of protesters singing the lyrics and pointing at the police
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Pure heaven, lets mobilise organise and occupy. Lets bring this message to the offices of the LibDems. Lets up the game. In the words of the Zapatisa YA BASTA enough is enough
http://tinyurl.com/2utzgme LiB DEM Offices London
lib dem constituency offices london
http://www.libdems.org.uk/mps.aspx list of LibDem MPs.
During this time I and many others had to sustain abuse from officers of the law. Many of them with smug looks on their faces, taunting young people about the cold and the fact they couldn't use toilets. Despite the lies in the media about water and toilets being provided this was an outright fabrication.
This clearly from the start was the police revenge for Millbank. It was clear to me when they employed the services of the G20 commander that this was going to be brutal and so it proved to be. We only have to remind ourselves of the senseless manslaughter of Ian Tomlinson to fully understand what these thugs are capable of in kettle situations.
1000s of young and old people alike left that kettle last night while a deep sense of anger. Lets cultivate that anger. What happened yesterday was an attempt to break the spirit of our future. Lets not allow them to break us. I was encouraged when I left the police cordon last night at around 7pm t, when I witnessed the sound system blasting out Killing in the Name of by Rage Against the Machine. To hear hundreds of protesters singing the lyrics and pointing at the police
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me
Pure heaven, lets mobilise organise and occupy. Lets bring this message to the offices of the LibDems. Lets up the game. In the words of the Zapatisa YA BASTA enough is enough
http://tinyurl.com/2utzgme LiB DEM Offices London
lib dem constituency offices london
http://www.libdems.org.uk/mps.aspx list of LibDem MPs.
skywarrior
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How To Break Out of a Kettle
25.11.2010 10:53
Protester
bodybloc
25.11.2010 11:26
skywarrior
Good Post - Thanks!
25.11.2010 12:03
Klamber
how about
25.11.2010 12:45
spontaneous demos, spraypaint slogans, and of course - Occupations!!
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Guide to dealing with Public Order Situations
25.11.2010 12:53
http://www.schnews.org.uk/diyguide/guidetopublicordersituations.htm
For how do deal with kettling. A number of gatherings have in the past offered training for people as well.
FTP
How kettles get broken
25.11.2010 14:06
1) the response is quick, usually withing a couple of minutes - before more police arrive to firm up the lines and before those inside loose energy OR the protester:police ratio is so much in our favour that not many additional officers can arrive.
2) support comes from a determined group outside the kettle.
The basic tactic is eiter to 'kettle the kettle' or since those sorts of numbers are hard to get, to surround a small part of it. Once you have a police line surrounded by angry people on the inside, and your angry friends on the outside, they start to get pretty worried. At that point it only takes a slight break and they will generally either withdraw or willingly release those inside the kettle so that they themselves arn't trapped either.
As for the exceptions to the above, its only when there are A LOT of VERY angry demonstrators (ie at the G20), or when you have 400 drunk football holligans penned in by about 50 police (see every EDL march ever).
In summation: it's all about solidarity. If there arn't enough of you to try a break out form a noisy protest and hope that more people are attracted to it, once you have the numbers go for it!
Kitcen appliance expert
most up to date Guide to...
25.11.2010 17:24
https://earthfirst.org.uk/publicorderguide.htm and
https://earthfirst.org.uk/publicorderguide.pdf
If you've got comments, send them in to the address in it.
Copy, print, distribute, and let's do what we want to - which isn't standing around in the cold!!
See you on the streets
EF!er
Why get kettled?
25.11.2010 18:54
Veteran