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Responding to repression - posted by guest on 15th January 2021 06:58:51 AM
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Responding to Repression
Portland General Defense Committee
(503-442-0866)
@pdxgdc
First and foremost: Do not talk to the cops or any other law enforcement agency for any reason. It is in your best interests for you to remain silent.
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Responding to Repression
Portland General Defense Committee
(503-442-0866)
@pdxgdc
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Get Prepared:
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- Talk to your housemates, partners, or lovers or anyone else whose house you spend a significant time at about the different possibilities of what repression could look like and what they should do if the state shows up to talk to them.
- Talk about how the state visiting your family or your work might impact you and others and make a plan for how you want to address this with your family and/or your work with trusted comrades.
- Make a support plan with other syuou trust that can answer these questions: What do you need in terms of mental, emotiona, and material support when you are faced with a crisis? What would you need if you got arrested? What would you need if you went to jail for an extended period?
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Responding to Repression
Portland General Defense Committee
(503-442-0866)
@pdxgdc
Top Left: Build Strong Relationships
Bottom half:
- Know your comrades' back stories
- Go to people's homes and see where they live
- Meet people's family members or lovers or partners
- Have standards of behavior and hold each other accountable for them
- Center care and emotional labor
- Spread key information and relationships among comrades
- Everyone has a voice in decision making
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Responding to Repression
Portland General Defense Committee
(503-442-0866)
@pdxgdc
Top Left: Organizing Culture
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- Center and value building compassionate, direct, and resilient relationships
- Prevent, confront, and heal harm done by oppressive behavior
- Engage in long-term political study
- Develop a clear set of politics in qhich you collectively envision different possibilities of a liberated world
- Talk about concerns with comrades behavior in a private safe space and make a plan for addressing them
- Create a movement-wide culture of first bringing rumors, r3eal instances of conflict or abuse directly to organizations/the people involved and trying to deal with them before going public
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Responding to Repression
Portland General Defense Committee
(503-442-0866)
@pdxgdc
Top Left: REMEMBER
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Do not lie or give misinformation to cops. Lying to a police officer is a crime. If you feel uncomfortable being completely silent, repeat, "I will remain silent. I want to speak to a lawyer." To each question they ask.
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Responding to Repression
Portland General Defense Committee
(503-442-0866)
@pdxgdc
Top Left: If you are visitied:
Bottom half:
If police come to your house, do not open the door. You do not have to open the door or talk to them unless they have a warrant. Practice looking through a window or peephole, asking who it is, and confirming who it is before you open your door. Make sure that everyone in your household has practiced this.
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Responding to Repression
Portland General Defense Committee
(503-442-0866)
@pdxgdc
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If you are stopped on the street... Assess your risk based on racialized violence and other marginalized identity. Ask immediately "Am I Free To Go?" If they say yes, then you can walk away without speaking to them. If you are not free to go, you are being detained. You do not have to be "read your rights". It's tempting to try and talk your way out of it. Don't do it! Say "I don't want to answer any questions. I want to talk to a lawyer." If you start talking to them, you can always stop and say you want to be silent. If the police keep talking to you, restate the phrases.
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Responding to Repression
Portland General Defense Committee
(503-442-0866)
@pdxgdc
Top Left: Spread the word:
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Write down as detailed a description of what happened as possible. If you can take photos of the people who visited and their vehicles, do so to help identify them. Collect any documents including cards, warrants, etc. and include this with the description. Share your description and all information with your group or organization. Let people close to you know that you have been visited. Ask or support from your comrades and community, such as checking in on you, listening to you talk about your feelings, making you dinner, doing laundry or other tasks, staying with you or letting you stay with them, getting a massage, acupuncture, or herbal treatments for stress, or other care strategies that work best for you.
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Responding to Repression
Portland General Defense Committee
(503-442-0866)
@pdxgdc
Top Left: After the Visit:
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Ask for support from your comrades and community. Support could look like:
- checking in on you
- listening to you talk about your feelings
- making you dinner
- doing laundry or other tasks for you
- staying with you or letting you stay with them
- getting a massage, acupuncture, or herbal treatments for stress
- other care strategies that work best for you
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Responding to Repression
Portland General Defense Committee
(503-442-0866)
@pdxgdc
Top Left: Be accountable
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- Be upfront when you make a mistake
- People get scared or upset and try to explain themselves or don't realize they have given out info
- Immediately let anyone know what you said and what the state said in response
- Listen to your comrades feelings and concerns and address them as best as possible
- Make a plan for how you will deal with the state the next time and practice your plan so you will be prepared