People have asked about HK lessons for Portland, and I point them all to @zeynep, who in her free time from epidemiology studies this stuff for a living. But one lesson I remember clearly is simple: what's the plan for when someone throws a molotov cocktail for real?
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@zeynep's book. It's like a how-to manual for this stuff. Sustained protests are pretty boring so you will have lots of time to read it! Free CC version at bottom!https://www.twitterandteargas.org/Show this thread -
Everyone wants to talk about fun tactics, like what's the right size traffic cone to use for tear gas, but the weak link of any Portland-style protest, like in 99% of human endeavors, is governance and asshole management
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There's also tons of HK people on Twitter and the wider internet who can talk about this. But I'm not pointing to them because basically the entire population is in legal jeopardy for the sustained protests of last year.
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Just remember how the Women's March ended, the biggest (by numbers) protest movement in American history. What was supposed to be the great hope of the Resistance collapsed almost instantly due to organizational and internecine issues that had nothing to do with outside pressure
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If you want a recent eyewitness history of the Hong Kong protests in the hopes of applying lessons from there, I recommend
@antd's City on Fire https://www.amazon.com/City-Fire-fight-Hong-Kong-ebook/dp/B07YM45KNB …Show this thread
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// My two cents is that Hongkongers realised that 22-23 years of peaceful protests did not stopped the Extradition law on 12 June 2019, what stopped that law was the "brave fighters" surrounding the Legislative Council under the threat of rioting charges which carried 10 yrs jail
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// I for one still feel grateful that they were there despite everything that has happened since. As part of the peaceful camp, I can't sell them out.
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