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TACTICS OF SCALE IN PROTESTS

The starting point was an idea about protests and maps happening in the context of frequent, huge protests happening in France in 2023 against retirement new laws. 
During one of those big proteste we could se spontaneous riots happening everywhere in paris, right after the protest, till midnight. The police was overwhelmed, stressed, riding crazily around Paris whenever they thought they had an information. The protesters where thrilled, small groups of people usually not leading any movement suddenly creating mini riots and making a mess in the street. Everywhere

The idea was to have a map of the city printed every protest days on a sheet of paper, cheap, and gave away for free inside the protest. The name of places on the map would have been mixed randomnly. Place de l'Opera is now Place de la concorde, Rue des francs bourgeois was infact boulevard Beaumarchais... 
Every protest the map woul dbe mixed. So from now protester could meet somewhere without having to be discrete about the location. They could maybe even yell it, since it was encrypted. Of course not everyone would have the information, some would meet at the right place, other at the named one (code name). At some point, eventually policemen would get the trick and try to get hands on maps. then it would be a good moment, to print fake fake maps, with another mix of names, different than the actual one, that could be dropped near the police truck, in order to give them fake clues. 
Of course this would input more chaos, but as said earlier, the chaos fits the protesters, not the police.

Another input was a talk had with another member about protest happening in Bruxell e s to ask justic e for someone of color that died in a college int e gration week end, during a bullying raciste game. 
Using social medias to gather people to honour the person brought out a lot of hatred from supporters of the white teenager responsible for the death. Sometimes social media is not needed for small intimate gathering, but we have no alternative means of getting together nowadays. How could we use media and technology to make small scall organisation tools available

How come printing, and static web can be a way to fix information in time in order to make it more persistant. 
    
This was a mean to speak about the efficiency of smaller groups and how chaos would fit spontaneous groups of protesters but would not meet the polices ways of operate. Dispersion could sometime benefit the protesters. 
On an other hand, massiveness is sometime something we need in protest. 
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Also dispersion should not be "being alone" as in panic, authorities might start doing dangerous stuff. If Disperse, disperse in groups, with care and with strategy. 

There was an interesting performance that hinted interesting ideas. 

A protest was declared every day of a week, starting in front of a house, declaring 200 persons, but there would only be two protesters. 15 policemans were there on the first day. "Dont start the walk, where are all the other 198 people" "I dont know, they didnt come". And the two protester walk started, with akward poli c emens around the duo. Next day, 200 people were gathered, 
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informal notes on the discussion :
    
question the size / scale f the protest : some can need to be massive, but some can be better small, split, dispersed. 
dispersion by opposition with division (?)
spontaneous protests, dispersed protests can bring chaos
* city map with changing names of the squares and streets to blur the meeting points 
* DoS action : declaring many protests  > automated demands for protests