Posting Nine: medic tactics ideas and planning

MoE: Am all prepared for Mon "Port" day. Melissa taking me to King Pt Prk as she has to get thru to work at her terminal operations center. Am observing and available Only to provide medical care. Am presently formatting a program/workshop for street demonstrator Medic and Marshals Corp. This includes Purpose and function philosophy,Training, Methodologies/Tactics of crowd psychology and crowd control,First Aid with respect to protest Marshals. The specific function in da good ole daz was to 1)act as a buffer between police and demon lines; 2)protect demonstrators and attempt to keep em non-violent; 3)attempt to keep order and coordination of movement within own ranks; 4)prevent clashes between inter-grps of demonstrators & police; 5) practice techniques to break and stall charges into ranks while demonstrators escape 6) methods to break tension - "OM" and decompress efforts; 7) if physical confrontation and violence seemed imminent Marshals are to form a cordon separating the 2 sides, examine flanking techniques and measures; 8) liaison w/leaders (demon) and police to discuss issues,identification/function of the Marshals, setting of rules of engagement,medical evac routes,hospitals,etc. The medic side is rather self-explanatory but would include recruitment efforts to obtain qualified/certified medical persons,set up workshops for training in first aid,triage,diagnosis, treatments,financing to obtain supplies,liaison w/demon and police establishing location[s] of hosp,med-evac plans,routes,etc. Lets see where it goes Mon 12/12. If can hang into Spring then things should gain monster Momentum and am all for a national call to rally and march in DC this May Day and at both Rep/Dem conventions coming up. This is what will shake the system up but only if a mass showing and use total non-violent Gandhi[an] methods like passive resistance 'Sit-Ins' and swift 'mobile' demonstrator tactics where 3-4 grps split off in lrg numbers in different directions with secret time coordinated link-ups to name a few most effective and totally non-violent tactics that just ball and brain bust the hell out of social control forces as most training doesn't cover the possibility of such "organized" covert demonstrator tactics with no immediate game plan for them to fall back on in ordered response. Another awesome one the Yippies (Abbie Hoffman & Jerry Rubin) liked was Wash oi - a Japanese technique that can even cause breaking police lines passively by using a mass of bodies 10-20ft deep and wide and just through sway and choreographed body movement it will resemble the movement of a snake if being observer from air. Its an awesome technique that frustrate hell out of authorities as it is totally effective-totally non-violent/passive and you just can't start clubbing and spraying peaceful demonstrators doing "Om" as they sliver unopposed through anyplace they wish to go by utilizing this technique. Naaa !! forget it, these things take mentors/leadership and that dreaded teenager word, "organization" and "hierarchy." Peace & Love