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You can extinguish tear gas canisters!

Wearing gloves, submerge the canister in a wide-mouthed water jug containing baking soda, dish soap, and/or vegetable oil—3 tablespoons of each per liter of water.

Cover the top with one hand, just enough to keep the gas from getting out, and shake the jug.

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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Gas Masks and Goggles Everything you need to know to choose the right gas mask or goggles to protect your eyes and lungs from chemical agents and projectiles.

Don’t do that, just get a painter’s respirator crimethinc.com/2020/09/02/a...

Without A Science of Navigation We Cannot Sail in Stormy Seas (Noel Ignatiev, 1969) | abolition notes

“The [Weather Underground] slogan… create two, three, many John Browns… substitutes the heroic actions of a few whites for the heroic actions of the masses of white workers. The real slogan that must be put forward is — create two, three, many million John Browns.” abolitionnotes.org/noel-ignatie...

Movement, cadre, and dual power - Joel Olson I will use my experience as a member of Bring the Ruckus to explain the role of a cadre organization in political struggle; and how being in a cadre informs my work in the Repeal Coalition, a grassroo...

Movement, Cadre and Dual Power by Joel Olson libcom.org/article/move...

must perform that organizing in the most effective way possible. […] The purpose of a cadre, I argue, is not to lead the revolution but to seek out and participate in those struggles—such as the immigrant rights struggle in Arizona—that have the most potential to bring about a dual power.”

“While I firmly believe that all forms of oppression are evil and must be abolished… global capital has weak spots, and we should hit them first. The task of anarchists and other radicals is to… think and act strategically: we must carefully choose the kinds of political organizing we do, and we

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To him, the fighters on the barricades are madmen, the defeated revolution is a mistake, and the builders of socialism in a successful revolution — which in the eyes of an opportunist can only be transitory — are outright criminals.” Lukacs, Lenin p. 11

even when they are most visibly shaking, he only hopes and prays for a return to ‘normality’, sees its crises as temporary episodes, and regards a struggle even at such times as an irrational and irresponsible rebellion against the ever-invincible capitalist system.

“For the average man first sees the proletarian revolution when the working masses are already fighting on the barricades, and — if he happens also to have enjoyed a vulgar-Marxist education — not even then. For to a vulgar Marxist, the foundations of bourgeois society are so unshakable that,