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when your fire is established, you can begin to cook. This is probably a two-person job: one to cook, the other to stoke. The stove bums the small pieces of wood very fast and requires constant attention. If your insulation is good and you are burning hot enough, the stove will produce very litde ash. You shouldn't have to empty it until the end of one cooking session.
Tips To further increase efficiency, put a lid on your pot and pile bricks onto the Hd?the more, the better. This creates a low-tech pressure cooker, decreasing cooking time.
You can use longer pieces of wood by letting the wood hang out of the firebox, advancing the pieces into the fixe as they are consumed.
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Sabotage
If you are going to be involved in sabotage, you should remove yourself from high- Instructions
profile activism, resolve old warrants and speeding tickets, and otherwise arrange to
appear to be a law-abiding citizen. You should be able to glide through a routine traffic
stop without occasioning any suspicion. Anyone can engage in everyday resistance, but
if your chosen approach to subversion includes serious illegal activity, you'll do well to
make things as difficult as possible for those whose job it is to catch you. As they say,
sometimes you have to obey the small laws to break the big ones.
Before you even consider carrying out an act of sabotage, you presumably have estab- Brainstorming lished your general goals as a political activist or subversive. The possibility of sabotage comes up when you move on to working out a strategy to achieve those goals. Perhaps you need to draw the public eye to an injustice that would outrage everyone, if only they heard about it; perhaps you want to destroy the means by which a corporation or institution is carrying out its misdeeds, or at least provide it with a deterrent; perhaps you want to inspire your fellow activists or dissidents, and demonstrate a model for resistance in the process. If sabotage seems like it could be an effective element of your strategy, consider the possible targets, the actions you can take against them, and the means by which to do so.
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the potential consequences. If the effects of your action will be publicized, take into account the ways different tactics will play out In the public eye. Think hard about how to minimize risk, expense, and difficulty while maximizing effectiveness; through every step of the planning, consider if there is a simpler, safer way to achieve the same ends, and whether you are prepared for the risks you will run.
Consider the effects of your action in a broader context. Who will it inspire, who will it intimidate? Will it provoke more surveillance or repression of your community, or infighting within it.^ If so, is it worth it, and how will you deal with these consequences? Don't draw attention to an important target with a small action if you or others may desire to do something more serious with it later. Recognize that the authorities can use your acts of sabotage as propaganda to their own ends; think about how to offset or undercut this.
Reconnaissance
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From the time you begin considering a target to the moment before you strike, you will be doing reconnaissance, and the quality of this preparatory work vidll determine whether your action is a success or a failure. First, research the target and everything related to it?from a computer in a public space, for example, or by stopping by a tourist center or signing up for a guided tour. Be sure that anyone who does such investigation cannot be connected to the act of sabotage later.
Gather maps; if possible, get aerial photographs of the area and floor plans of any buildings. You can often obtain these on the internet. Make your own maps, combining the features of the maps you assemble with the information your scouting missions provide. CarefiiUy check these maps against reality on subsequent scouting missions. Don't risk conspiracy charges by keeping maps of or notes about potential targets in your home.
To the extent that it's possible without attracting attention, become intimately familiar with the site of your intended action and the area surrounding it. It may be most
