by Crimethinc. Workers' Collective
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pouring ram. The action didn't entirely go as planned?the idea was to shut down both ^^ \^^^^ ^^ of them.
ends of the bridge and have a street party against the war in the middle. Instead, the police cleared all of us from the bridge pretty quickly. But it was shut down, our message against the war and business as usual was all over the news, and the action clearly affected the morning commute to work. In addition, we gained useful experience for our future endeavors.
Blockades and Lockdowns
Classroom Takeover
Ingredients
Optional Ingredients
A UNIVERSITY, COMMUNITY COLLEGE-
or other institution of "highef education
An interesting video Educational packets
a few interesting, intelligent
companions
Pamphlets, 'zines, posters,
OTHER propaganda
Procure a Classroom
Instructions We stumbled onto this recipe quite accidentally. Essentially, it involves assuming the role of professor in a university class. Traditional methods of propaganda distribution often fail to reach those outside the various radical ghettoes, but students?as our studies have shown!?are unusually likely to pay heed to subversive propaganda, if it is issued by a professor or person supposedly acting in one's stead.
This is the most difficult step in this recipe, but here are some tips that will get you in front of a class in no time! First, try this recipe on the first day of classes at a university; no one in the class will know what the professor looks like, so you can pull this off without even making up an excuse as to why you are there. Second, at many universities, if a professor gets sick or is otherwise absent unexpectedly, an official notice will be placed on the door of that classroom. It is possible to walk around a university, locate one of these notices, and remove it. The notification should include at least the class section ?g number, and probably the time the class is scheduled to take place?if the time is not
included, check the university's class listing, which can usually be found in the campus library or bookstore, or online. Come back at the assigned time, tell everyone that you are filling in for the professor, and do your worst. Another way to weasel your way into a professorship?this is the method we used?is to become friends with some professors at the local university. Professor friends are likely to call on you to conduct class in their absence. Usually, they'll just ask you to perform some menial task such as showing a bore-you-to-tears movie or passing out a syllabus, but hey, they're not going to be there! This latter technique is a bit more time-consuming, but in a college town, professors are powerful allies to have. The third and least-recommended option (read "only for reformist suckers") is to go through somewhat more than two decades of schooling and actually get hired as a professor.
If you can borrow a student's meal plan card, you can go into a college cafeteria with a backpack and come out with enough food to feed yourself and some companions for a few days. Failing that, you might be able to sneak in?if just walking in purposefully (to retrieve your forgotten backpack, of course) doesn't work, try looking for the handicapped access elevator, the emergency exit, or the employee entrance.
First, imagine they're all naked. Second, calm down; students, like bears, lions, and other wdld mammals, are more afraid of you than you are of them?^honest!
Seriously, though, this is where the fun begins. From here, your imagination is the only limit. You could give a lecture on armed guerrilla struggles in Francoist Spain after the civH war, or offer a skillshare on graffiti techniques. You could facilitate a workshop on gender subversion, or pass out instruments and hold a jam session. Whatever you do, we highly recommend you have some radical literature on hand?they will pick it up and read it. Also, in discussions, don't shoot dov^m everything students bring up that you don't agree with?even if you disagree with it very strongly. What we found is that this v^dll polarize the class against you-?^people wUl stop listening and discussion vrill cease. Instead, initially pretend to agree to some of these things, then later come back to these things and show why they are wrong without mentioning the original comment. Remember, a student's ego is a fragile thing; if you can avoid bruising it and still make your point, everyone wins.
Oh Shit, I'm Standing in Front ofi§o Voracious College Kids, Now What?!
Classroom Takeo\/er V9
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