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Awareness:
Stay alert throughout the action
Awareness is key to the success of any
action. Often, the atmosphere and the conditions
that determine it can change very
quickly. It is important to keep up with
what is going on around you, and to have
established in advance how you will react
to a given scenario. For example, is the
arrival of one police car a big deal? How
about ten? Is it common for police to tail
marchers in this city? While you can never
be certain of exactly what will happen, going
over possible scenarios in advance and
having an idea of how your group wants
to deal with them will give everyone a more
solid idea of how to react—and how not to
overreact—as the situation develops.
When informing others of a development,
announce the raw information, not the conclusions
you may have drawn from it (“The police
are putting on gas masks,” not “They’re going
to gas us!”), so others can draw their own conclusions.
Resist the urge to panic, and the tendency
to get carried away as well.