speaking of coming up short, someone must be having a laugh when they pair up cops. the number of times you'll see a little diddy cop paired with a great beanpole, or some tubby plod coupled with a stick insect makes me think there's some cunning pranksters - and the people who're having the joke played on them never seem to realise 8)
Fitwatch on Facebook? Why? That is a totally insane idea!
Want the FIT to know everything about you, and who you're mates with!? Might as well just let them into your house and let them thumb through your diary!
Besides, just get off Facebook! They are evil libertarian hyper-capitalist techno-futurist corporate data mining bastards, and I'm not even exaggerating when I say that.
See this article for some background on the people behind Facebook.
They are an evil bunch of tossers, and no self-respecting activist or anti-capitalist should go anywhere near their shitty site.
If you must use social networking type stuff, give Crabgrass from Riseup a go. I've heard it's pretty good.
Sort of agree, facebook watch, facebook is dodgy in the extreme. But I think the idea of a facebook presence was to help promote the call to action. Not that you need to use facebook to participate, of course.
I can't see what you're getting so worked up about, it's just a website, they're only as evil as all the other evil capitalist bastards you're relying on to even see this comment.
That Guardian article is a pisspoor liberal critique, why any self-respecting anti-capitalist would be linking to article decrying the loss of national boundaries I can only guess at.
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008
The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier. That's some innovative reimagining of history they have there.
And then you suggest that activists put even more of their eggs in riseup's rickety basket? Making it all the easier to track, identify and number them? A fool's paradise.
Fit Watch are a fluid group of people who have come together to resist and oppose the tactics of the Forward Intelligence Teams (cops who harass protesters).
We aim to act in solidarity with each other, supporting campaigns by being at meetings and protests, making it harder for the police to film and gather intelligence.
We hope to encourage a culture where their presence is not acceptable and to act when we see people being followed and harassed.
We aim to make it harder for them to photograph and intimidate us by getting in the way of their cameras, taking photos and publishing as much information as we can about them on our blog.
Please add info as a comment or send to defycops(at)yahoo.co.uk
Some Ideas For Fitwatching
FIT Watch can be done by anyone and can be as passive or as confrontational as you wish. Here are some tactics we have found to be effective:
1.Holding large banners in front of photographers. This is particularly effective with double sheets on sticks which can block a camera from a distance. This is the least confrontational way of blocking photography.
2.Taking photos of them. They really don’t like this but it isn’t illegal. With any photos it’s always good to either try and get the cop’s number in the shot, or note it down.
3.Following the FIT. Pick a team and tail them. Turn their tactics onto them – everything time they send a text message look over their shoulder, listen to their phone conversations, look at what they’re writing in their notebooks.
4.Watch out for group huddles, especially with senior officers and go and unobtrusively stand by them. This disrupts their briefings and there’s always the possibility you might learn some useful information.
6.Put yourself physically in the way of the camera men by standing constantly in front of the camera and constantly shadow them. This has been the most confrontational tactic used so far and has therefore been the one people have been arrested for. However it has also been possible to do this without arrest, especially if there are larger numbers doings this.
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What will your profile photo be. We got shed loads if you come up short....
speaking of coming up short, someone must be having a laugh when they pair up cops. the number of times you'll see a little diddy cop paired with a great beanpole, or some tubby plod coupled with a stick insect makes me think there's some cunning pranksters - and the people who're having the joke played on them never seem to realise 8)
Fitwatch on Facebook? Why? That is a totally insane idea!
Want the FIT to know everything about you, and who you're mates with!? Might as well just let them into your house and let them thumb through your diary!
Besides, just get off Facebook! They are evil libertarian hyper-capitalist techno-futurist corporate data mining bastards, and I'm not even exaggerating when I say that.
See this article for some background on the people behind Facebook.
They are an evil bunch of tossers, and no self-respecting activist or anti-capitalist should go anywhere near their shitty site.
If you must use social networking type stuff, give Crabgrass from Riseup a go. I've heard it's pretty good.
Sort of agree, facebook watch, facebook is dodgy in the extreme. But I think the idea of a facebook presence was to help promote the call to action. Not that you need to use facebook to participate, of course.
I can't see what you're getting so worked up about, it's just a website, they're only as evil as all the other evil capitalist bastards you're relying on to even see this comment.
That Guardian article is a pisspoor liberal critique, why any self-respecting anti-capitalist would be linking to article decrying the loss of national boundaries I can only guess at.
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008
The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier. That's some innovative reimagining of history they have there.
And then you suggest that activists put even more of their eggs in riseup's rickety basket? Making it all the easier to track, identify and number them? A fool's paradise.
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