Bodyhammer: Tactics and self-defence for the modern protester

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Bodyhammer PDF [1.1MB]

updated 18 March 2009:

This text has been around for quite a few years now, but its all still useful stuff. It includes details on making body armour, discusses the designs and uses of different types of shield walls, group movement tactics, shield wall formations and lots of other goodies. Well worth a read.

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posted 12 April 2008:

Technology has changed the street protest. In centuries past, a mass of people wishing to express themselves could only be silenced by live gunfire.

But the advent of riot armor, lachrymatory gases and “less-lethal” projectiles have allowed ruling establishments to squelch the voice of protesters with great ease, and even better PR.

It is the interest of this booklet to help preserve our freedoms of speech and public movement in expressing ourselves. The objective is not to ‘up the ante’ or encourage street battles.

No one sets out to engage the police or the army. We are on the streets to be seen and heard, but find it ever more difficult as arrests and injuries from policing forces aim to shut our voices out of the general equation.

Download full pdf [1.1MB] from http://www.devo.com/sarin/shieldbook.pdf

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