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TUC March preparation...

Madam Butterfly | 19.10.2012 06:04 | London

There's going to be a lot of raids before the march, so keep one step ahead...

Also since the last big student march in November last year snatch squads are back to normal...

If your coming alone, don't bring anything too dodgey like fireworks etc, and think carefully about how involved you want to be if it kicks off. Do you really want to go to prison? And do you trust the people around you?
Try to invite your mates!

But if your in a large "affinty group" or a crew, then consider one of your lot coming on a bike, to scout out the side streets, it well worked before last year.

Give journalists a hard time...
Seriously, threaten to rob them.

First if your coming to London and your a "known face" avoid the Cuts cafe tonight...
The cops made the mistake of not raiding the last TUC march social centre squat last year, they won't let this opportunity pass.

If you've been arrested before, consider the possibility of cops knocking on your door at 5am on saturday morning, so think about staying at a friends house tonight.

Go get a new cheap £10 mobile, use it for the day, all the communication should be a on cheap mobiles.


If your planning any real "heavy shit" don't expect to roll up to the march in black, instead choose 1 person who can wait it out in a cafe/pub with a pre-pay mobile waiting for updates, that one person can hold on to anything "hot" like paint bombs, fireworks or tools for a lock ons etc, while the rest of the group moves about.

Bring a load of random clothes in your bag, like jackets or hats or t-shirts, not black its too obvious, any old colour, but make sure you dump it afterwards where no one will find them...

If it turns into a bit of skirmish you can always retreat have a few paints with the locals and change clothes then get back into it after dark...

If your in London, tonight, follow the path of the route, andcheck all the side streets on a bike, take note of all the road works in the area!
look for ammo!

Anything that ain't bolted down!


"look for the beach under the paving stones!"

and remember to keep active, the riot cops should always be far away from you, if they form a line, don't stand there goading them you will get kettled and/or beaten up, instead turn around keep moving, keep a distance from them.

Remember the West End is full of targets, Starbucks, MacDonalds, HSBC, Barclays, Army recruitment offices, Topshop, the cops can't protect all of them...
Once it gets dark sprad out...

And remember if the cops use plastic bullets you will be witnessing a moment of UK history!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7nrhFhLqWE

Madam Butterfly

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Police statement clearly

19.10.2012 07:56

FUCK OFF POLICE SCUM

Another cop

Hmmm, Sounds like you are trying to scare people off rather..

19.10.2012 08:16

than encouraging to turn up. Raids, being beaten-up, rubber bullets. Is this a scare tactic by the state?

Barry Cade

This posting stinks to high heaven

19.10.2012 08:24

disinfo bullshit dressed up as a 'radical' posting

provocation and scare tactics in a posting designed to give a nudge towards a raid of the cuts cafe, which won't happen btw

iffy

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TAKE DOWN

19.10.2012 09:31

this bullshit please

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Clearly the post is aimed at people who intend to do something

19.10.2012 09:32

Not at keyboard warriors for whom slagging of peoples posts on the internet is the most political thing they will do this weekend.

Other advice worth looking at:

The Stay Safe: Stay Anonymous! posts at  http://www.fitwatch.org.uk
Don’t be on a database:  https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/10/501419.html

Mr Caterpillar

This is

19.10.2012 10:36

definately for the militant minded after a read. Just sound practical advice me thinks.

carry no banners

Cops have already ID'd most of the people who are likely to kick-off

19.10.2012 12:48

Thanks to the people who invited 4,000 odd people to attended the Radical Workers Bloc on Facebook, the cops already know the names and in many cases also the faces of most of the people who are likely to support the Radical Workers Bloc

9000

This article is right-wing trolling

19.10.2012 12:51

A comment like "give journalists a hard time... seriously, threaten to rob them" could only have been posted by someone who WANTS TO SEE PROTEST DENIGRATED IN THE MEDIA and who WANTS TO SEE ACTIVISTS GO TO JAIL

Yet IMC choose not to spike the article...... QED

Adventures

right wing trolling?

19.10.2012 13:07

Proof? No? .. The mainstream media provides lots of evidence for the cops afterwards for them to drool over, it's always best to keep them out of the way, in a nice way if that's at all possible, the fucking vultures they are.

touche

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Yes it's right-wing trolling

19.10.2012 14:16

The whole point of trolling is it's almost impossible to prove the source/s, but I'm guessing the troll who posted this shit is the same person who posted above denying this is trolling ;)

TZ

It's simple

19.10.2012 15:05

If you think tomorrow should just be a nice peaceful A-B walk then you won't like this post.

If you think that journalists will report a nice peaceful A-B walk then you won't like this post.

If you think that the Condems will listen to the message of a nice peaceful A-B walk then you won't like this post.

If you think that all activists are pacifists then you won't like this post.

If you are planning on taking some form of Direct Action tomorrow then you may find this post useful.

There are militant activists who like fucking shit up, and there are liberals who like A-B marches, and there is such a thing as diversity of tactics.

But a thread full of this a cop troll or Indymedia haven't spiked this post which means they are cops is boring and futile.

We don't need cops to make trouble

Would someone just trying to be useful play such theatrics?

19.10.2012 15:17

Sounds like the guy who approached me on a demonstration and warned me that the cops had me in mind for a beating but left without an answer how he could know.

(Of course, I noticed a gang of uniformed thugs sneering about cowardice when I later walked away inside a larger group.)

International Observer

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shame indymedia are so gullible innit

19.10.2012 18:28

sigh

inverse

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McDonald's

19.10.2012 21:21

God they get the blame for everything! This is an anti cuts march. McDonald's arnt to blame for the cuts!

Dan Factor

if this was a cop....

19.10.2012 21:27

they'd encourage you to all wear black, and meet in one location, not to spread out, not to use your brain, not hide in cafes/pubs, not to recon, not to dress casual!

we need to keep to the miliant action going last year after the riots it get pritty stale, Occupy and all those nutters sucked the life out of the movment, instead of harrassing the rich, our movement argued in 2 massive London campsites about which junky is ate the most biscuits on a daily basis.

Time to get back in the streets.

why not allow a litttle militant hype on indymedia? the journals will write some shit, but at least like minded pissed off young people from the estates will hear about it, and think "Yeah i'm up for that, I'm fucking pissed off."


yeah check the other websites like Fitwatch but don''t expect them to back you up when the cops nick you chucking a brick!

jibber jabber fool

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