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Do you have any tips or resources on what to do when you've been tear gassed?

Sure!

Here's a zine I like that gives a really good overview of chemical weapons and how to do an eye flush. (available in both English and Spanish, there's also versions for printing).

General tips:

Only use water for eye flushes--don't use milk, other chemicals, etc. Water bottles with a sports top/squeeze top are the best for doing eye flushes. If you don't have that kind of lid, you can stab a hole in a normal water bottle cap to basically turn it into a squeeze water bottle. Practice eye flushes at home so that you're not trying to figure it out for the first time in the middle of a chaotic protest situation.

Wear protective goggles. It's a lot easier to deal with tear gas and help other people if you don't get a direct hit to your eyes. Put them on before you see cops getting out riot gear--goggles do no good if they're in your backpack and not on you!

The number one tactic of the cops is fear. They use chemical weapons to try to break up crowds, intimidate us, and dissuade us from participating in (urgently needed) escalatory direct action. When we're tear gassed, it sucks, it's scary, and it hurts, and at the same time, it is temporary, and we can help each other get through it and care for each other in the aftermath.

in general, when looking for information about protest safety, I recommend looking up resources from street medic collectives. Riot Medicine, Crimethinc, and Sprout Distro's collection of Direct Action zines have some good information. Double check info before spreading posts on social media- myths like the "pour milk on your eyes" seem to regularly go viral, which is super unhelpful.

if you have any other questions, feel free to send an ask and if it's within my scope and experience i'll do my best to answer!

depsidase

anubisdemokratiajustitia

teaboot

So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently

teaboot

Breaking the law, even an unjust law, has consequences that not all can afford. But also a very large number of us are also very stupid, or very confused, or very lazy, and so it’s not unreasonable that someone at the bottom of the chain of command might make a typo, or misplace some paperwork, or leave a Friday afternoon email for Monday morning.

When something goes wrong, or an operation slows down, because a low-level worker somewhere sent a package to the wrong address or left someone on hold for an hour or didn’t fill out a particular form correctly- Do you immediately assume malicious intent? Or do you usually just brush it off as some underpaid idiot being bad at their job?

teaboot

You also gotta not brag about it. Keep your political opinions on the down low. Be noncommittal or ignorant or undecided. Say things like “I’ve never heard of that”, “where did you hear that?” or “that’s interesting, I heard a conflicting story from here, how weird”. Never be outwardly confidant of what you know. When there is a silence, don’t fill it- leave the space and let the other fill it for you. That’s how you get information, that’s how you find sources, that’s how you reduce the value of anything others get out of you.

Virtue signalling by wearing pins and ribbons and loudly declaring your place is not safe in some environments. It will place scrutiny on you and everything you touch. Nobody believes the guy who says “fuck my boss and everything he stands for” scratches the boss’s car by accident, even if it is an accident.

If you want to slow the march of a tank, filling the path with mud is going do more than laying down in front of it.

#Wehrpflicht #Und andere Dinge

Nazis, die nicht merken, dass das Lied, das sie gerade spielen eigentlich links ist: 8/10

Nazis, die wissen, dass das Lied, das sie gerade spielen gegen Rechts ist, und genau diesen Part skippen: 10/10

Happy 13.12. to all who celebrate!

depsidase

lyraeon

not to be mistaken for toxic positivity again but my god you need to learn to love the oppressed more than you hate their oppressors or else you are just delighting in feeling righteous while leaving those in need out in the cold

depsidase

Fick dich Jean Pascal

Gießen ist keine schöne Stadt. Es ist kalt, ich bin müde, die Steine sind schwer und dass wir trotzdem da sind zeigt nur, wie scheiße die AfD Jugend sein wird.

Wo Demogeld??