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@antidogmatist So, Twitter conversations are necessarily abbreviated, but… My general take is that March 19-22, 2003 in San Francisco was massively disruptive to business as usual (our stated goal) at a very low cost to participants in the short and long term. 1/Permalink On twitter.com
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@antidogmatist The vastly increased capacity of jails had very little effect on that day. Instead, the police (due to manpower constraints) had to essentially process and release us all on a borrowed pier.Permalink On twitter.com
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@antidogmatist Likewise, nearly everyone had their charges dropped due to overwhelming the system and the mass arrest strategy (how exactly do you convict someone who was just walking in the street). 3/On twitter.com
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@antidogmatist I'm saying all this is response to the theory that things are massively strategically worse due to more cops, more jail cells, more digital surveillance. These were all in place by 2003 4/Permalink On twitter.com
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@antidogmatist The system's repressive capacity still bottlenecks around 1000 arrests per day in a middle sized city. Mass arrestees are not relentlessly pursued for years afterwards; there are just too many and their arrests just too arbitrary. 5/Permalink On twitter.com
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@antidogmatist *Sometimes*, overcoming the fear of being arrested makes a movement more powerful. This always requires careful strategic thinking (don't waste your freedom), but I don't see the odds getting worse between generations of protest. 6/6Permalink On twitter.com
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