Why do big public protests any more?
Belarus used a tactic of forming small protest events with smaller groups of people. They just did in random locations and often.
A police force at any city can organize themselves to try to contain and confront a major protest group of 10,000 people … but they would have a very hard time dealing with 10 1,000 person protests happening at different locations around a city.
If you break up the protesting events into smaller and more dispersed events … the police would have a really hard time sending different groups of officers to multiple locations at the same time or to send them running around a city to organize at one place to another.
If you plan and organize one major event with thousands of people in one predetermined location … that only gives law enforcement an opportunity to organize themselves to get ready for all of you … it’s basically playing into their hands, into an event that they can control and manage.
There’s also this:
I have been thinking that I need to get my hands on a copy. The guy is legit, supposedly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Nonviolent_Action
Another of his 30 or so books, “Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System” (1990), was invoked by government officials in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1991 as they regained independence from the Soviet Union.
“I would rather have this book than the nuclear bomb,” Audrius Butkevicius, the former Lithuanian defense minister, once said.
PDFs on annas archive
How many countries has Peter Gelderloos directly himself assisted with successful revolutions in? Asking for a friend.
Whether a protest or demonstration stays peaceful or turn violent is almost entirely up to the “law” enforcements present. They will steer up trouble and escalate the situation with rubber ball and teargas. As a participant to a demonstration, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot enforce a peaceful protest against the weapons they use.
If people show up open carry, the police are suddenly very polite and only interested in keeping the peace.
