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37 lines
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title: Call out cops! Call out the system!
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# Purpose
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- Providing critique to policing migrants and refugees and those who solidarize with them
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- Deconstruct the systemic justification of the punitive and repressive actions against the illegals who are construed as a threat and an enemy
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# Method: Direct action
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Organizing direct action is both a common and uncommon way of addressing police violence and coercion many citizens/volunteers are subjected to. There are various examples when people/activists went out in the streets and protested against police and state violence. Lately, many [activists, priests, firefighters, doctors and others](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/migrants-refugees-solidarity-europeans-arrested-europe-opendemocracy-a8919686.html) were criminalized because they helped undocumented migrants or refugees in different ways. Those coercive and often violent actions provoke counter-responses by local or translocal/national groups.
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## Possible ideas
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- Creating and handing out a booklet intended for citizens, teachers, medical workers focusing on migrant and refugee rights and local systems of solidarity that act in opposition of police and state violence
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- Creating and publicly displaying (i.e. on buildings, on the street, on billboards) a local map and timeline of police activity against solidarity actions
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- Making stickers and placing them in public places such as public transport, hospitals, schools, parks etc.
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- Walking through the town with banners and leaflets
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- Protesting on a larger scale (there are a number of online resources on how to organize a protest)
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Time: 2 days and more…
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## Guiding questions
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- What/Whom do we need to address?
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- How will we address it? What is the way we want to deliver our message?
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- Whom do we collaborate with?
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- How will we prepare the scenario/choreography?
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- What do we need?
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- What are the repercussions for those who we solidarize with? What are the repercussions for us and myself?
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- How will we cope with repercussions and provide an on-going critique?
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# Resources
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