It’s a tweet thread - the last tweet
Ca Highway Patrol press officer says:
75 protestors arrested
charged with Failure to disburse
How about destroying the roads at a time when those roads have the least amount of traffic. Also posing as highway road workers, with detour signs while destroying the route
Lastly, i feel like the best way to block a road is literally to just form a concrete barrier around 1 feet high. That would be costly to dismantle, and would probably effectively block traffic for a day.
Hypothetically speaking
ok it’s bad because you’ll get in trouble, so instead you should destroy infrastructure (you literally are doing respectability politics and tone policing btw)
If you’re going to get arrested, you might as well break something and cause some serious disruption. It’s easy for cops to pull you off the road if you’re just standing there.
Discussing the effectiveness and costs of different actions is not tone policing or respectability politics. It’s an inescapable part of organizing; you have to think about what you’re going to do and what result you’re hoping to achieve.
Getting in trouble isn’t a hard barrier to action, but if you’re going to get into trouble (and ask those around you to get into trouble) you should have something to show for it. If someone is trying to talk you into getting arrested in a way that will not achieve anything significant, yeah, they’re either a cop or doing a cop’s job.
