What's noteworthy was how the tactics varied based on the threat level. This is worthy of study. I've talked about it many times.
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Boston and Louisville simply outnumbered them by 2.5 orderd of magnitude. That's one way.
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PDX and Berkeley had different things to contend with: the pop-up tactics of Joey Gibson and also experienced police to defend against.
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In Cville we had highly inexperienced and inconsistent police, and we were even strength with the fash but outgunned.
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That's a thing that doesn't get talked about as much. PDX, Berkeley, Boston don't have the gun laws we do. We had many militias to factor in
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So these tactics have to vary. Here in the South, we're seeing a rise in armed praxis as community defense.
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People were literally shot at in view of the cops, who did nothing, and the only charge is firing a gun within 1000' of a school.
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But we're also seeing with the disasters happening and the resurgence of western fascism that community defense has to go global.
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The fash are incapable of understanding non-hierarchical organizing. They wanted Cville to be Berkeley East. But Cville's not Berkeley.
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We deployed our only militia to protect our rally point/medic station. The fact that we even had a militia shocked and deterred the fash.
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They couldn't pull popup tactics for the most part. And the fucking National Guard deployed, too.
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Our diversity of tactics stymied them, and they got stymied again in Berkeley. And they lost their media ally in a devastating way.
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And we're not done with the aftermath in Charlottesville, either. More charges are coming.
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I'm wary of a reading of the tweet that minimizes what we left on the streets. That's not what
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Continued resistance is needed to stave off the attempts at rebranding and rebuilding. Not every event will be like Cville.
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Centrists will say that direct action against nazis doesn't work even though their strategy of doing nothing hasn't helped and antifa has
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antifa must be militant- it's the ONLY thing fascists understand- bullies must be beat down.
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