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Activist Action Series! So you want to be an activist
Feminist Global Resistance will be posting a series of articles on techniques and safety tips for activists. To all activists, if you are planning to “dance the streets”, you must become knowledgeable of the laws and regulations of your municipality. Decide what, if any, lines you are willing to cross using sound critical thinking skills. …
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Activist Action Series! Police Assets and Equipment – Understand them and Protect Yourself
Feminist Global Resistance will be posting a series of articles on techniques and safety tips for activists. Our next article is, “Police Assets and Equipment – Understand them and Protect Yourself”, covers a variety of police tactics and equipment used during civil unrest. Be prepared. The police, in recent years, have been trained in…
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Activist Action Series! Dealing with Tear Gas (CN, CS, & OC)
Feminist Global Resistance will be posting a series of articles on techniques and safety tips for activists. Our next article is, “Dealing with Tear Gas (CN, CS, & OC)”, covers each type of tear gas agent, types of exposure and treatment, and the symptoms and effects of exposure. To all activists, “dancing the streets” requires…
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Activist Action Series! “Police Tactics and How To Defeat Them” by RaiseTheFist.com
Feminist Global Resistance will be posting a series of articles on techniques and safety tips for activists. Our next article is, originally, from RaiseTheFist.com, “Police Tactics and How To Defeat Them”. We are reposting it here to spread the information since the original article has been removed from the internet. RaiseTheFist.com was run by Sherman…
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Activist Action Series! Activism and Preventing Burnout #OpMentalHealth
Feminist Global Resistance will be posting a series of articles on techniques and safety tips for activists. Our next article is a continuation of our discussion for #OpMentalHealth, specifically discussing burnout, “Activism and Preventing Burnout #OpMentalHealth”, was written in conjunction with Anon/Street Medics and other friends. To all activists, “dancing the streets” can create stress…
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Activist Action Series! Activism – Staying well #OpMentalHealth
Feminist Global Resistance will be posting a series of articles on techniques and safety tips for activists. To all activists, if you are planning to “dance the streets”, you must become knowledgeable of your needs and the needs of your comrades. Activism can be fun but it is serious business – take care of yourself…
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Activist Action Series! Messaging using Electric Road Signs
Feminist Global Resistance will be posting a series of articles on techniques and safety tips for activists. To all activists, if you are planning to “dance the streets”, you must become knowledgeable of the laws and regulations of your municipality. Decide what, if any, lines you are willing to cross using sound critical thinking skills. …
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Activist Action Series! How to Drop a Banner to get your message to the masses
Feminist Global Resistance will be posting a series of articles on techniques and safety tips for activists. Our first, “How to Drop a Banner to get your message to the masses”, is a technique for powerful messaging to be seen by a huge number of people. Keep it short, powerful and on point. A Drop…
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PTSD, Graveyard Dancing and saying Good-Bye: Ketamine Dreams
When I was a Child It wasn’t always easy being a little kid and I soon found it was downhill from there. I won’t get into many specifics but “trauma” became a constant companion very early – violence, assault, death (too many deaths but the death of my brother when I was 13 –…
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Mother’s Peace Day
In 1870, Julia Ward Howe, abolitionist,… … called for a “Mother’s Peace Day” dedicated as a celebration to the eradication of war. She organized “Mother’s Peace Day” festivities in Boston for years. Below is the proclamation she wrote in 1870: Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or…