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No One Likes A Rat - Defend the Millbank Protesters - Poster

ANARCHIST | 11.11.2010 23:56

The Telegraph newspaper is organising a witch hunt for the protesters captured on film at the anti-cuts protest in London on the 10th November. To fight the cuts, we must show solidarity to those that fight them, regardless of differences in opinion on tactics. The Government and their police force will try and divide us.

Poster
Poster


WE SAY STAY UNITED!

ANARCHIST

Additions

How To Mask Up and How Not to Mask Up

13.11.2010 11:44

Bad masking up!
Bad masking up!

Good masking up!
Good masking up!

Masking up means more than covering your face with a bit of rag and dashing about heroically. It means protecting your identity from being discovered in the best as possible way. Covering your lower face is totally useless. Your whole head and face should be covered except for where you need to see, of course.

You should also stay masked up as long as possible. It's a bit of a strategic thing. You might not want to be masked up when nothing is happening as it draws attention to yourself. But if something does happen, you have to be masked up. As the cops / media will be photographing everything before and during and after, you will then need at least a basic change of clothes so that pictures you may be in earlier in the say show you looking different from you masked up later in the day. At least a different top or jacket, hat etc should be different. Or swap clothes with your friends or other people. As can be seen from the media and cops use of photographs from the events at Millbank, they trawl through 1000's of images looking for shots of people unmasked before they masked up.

Protect your identity. Encourage anyone who is around you doing things to mask up! Stay out of prison!!

BaTPeRSoN


Re: Irelevant

13.11.2010 13:40

There are people who had 'good pictures' of them, not masked up, spread all over national newspapers in 'Wanted' adverts. This was after riots in london that were a lot more destructive than those this week. Many of them were never even contacted by the police.

Stay safe, but don't let paranoia get the better of you.

anoter realist


Comments

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bigger file?

12.11.2010 00:24

nice one! any chance of getting a bigger file for printing?

snitches get stitches


Daily Fail in on it too

12.11.2010 01:36

The Daily Fail is doing the same thing, indeed it's already gone ahead and published some of the names of the students and passed details onto the police.

It needs to be targeted as well!

Paper Boy


I'm a rodentiphile

12.11.2010 03:11

I love rats... no human is a rat or a pig or a weasel or a cow

Rat Rights


Irelevant

12.11.2010 10:04

If they didn't cover their faces they will eventually be caught - it's that simple - cover your face.

Realist


address

12.11.2010 10:38

Daily Telegraph. 111 Buckingham Palace Road. London. SW1W 0DT

(020) 7931 2000

twitter: @telegraphnews

journo contact details at:  http://www.mediauk.com/newspapers/41410/the-daily-telegraph

 http://www.facebook.com/dailytelegraph

yep


it may be

12.11.2010 10:45

The first time for some of em, bless....

So face coverage may not have been high on agendas....But support them we must, nice middle-class student types hav ‘in a go must have the Daily fail and other fascist rags in a spin...

Free gas masks to all UK students! :D

And i would hope the next time they elect a NUS leader it's not some geeky little sell out who is only working in the NUS to further his future political ambitions in Government..... they will get the practise in now selling you out along side any principles they may have.

bleep


covering faces is not enough

12.11.2010 12:56

> If they didn't cover their faces they will eventually be caught - it's that simple - cover your face.

Covering faces is a good start - but don't forget that hair, eyebrows and distinctive clothing are all give-aways too - crap attempts to mask up can give a false sense of security!

Don't get paranoid, just get well-equipped :)

.


Advice to students fearing arrest

13.11.2010 08:52

...as a result of pictures taken by press, FIT or CCTV.

 http://fitwatch.org.uk/2010/11/beating-police-repression-after-the-student-occupation.html

Comments on masking up are right - but when people don't expect trouble, they don't come prepared. Also, there is a lot of pressure on people not to wear masks - makes you stand out as trouble maker, 'just for kids', 'macho posing' etc. We need a bit of a culture change - covering your face on demos should be the norm, not the exception.

Nice poster.

Fighting FIT
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