Still playing the “let me guess where my daughter is now” game.
(Yes, I figured it out, although the Petra GPS put it in israel for some reason)
I’m Kee Hinckley (he/his). That’s my wife Mollie Pepper on the right. I’m a senior software architect at TiVo Corp (I get the metadata from point A to point B) with a BA in Anthropology. Mollie’s a sociologist with a couple Masters and a PhD on the way; she specializes in borders, gender, and violence. I have two kickass daughters. Shireen Hinckley is a film editor and documentarian currently working on a movie on refugee resettlement, Home Is Where the War Is. Shadi Fotouhi is a QA automation expert at Wayfair (and formerly at robotics firm Jibo), and an amazing artist.
Good thread about the strategic importance of a protest using a shield wall which can’t advance.
Appreciate this being called a shield wall rather than a phalanx or testudo or some more specific term.
I should note that despite such overlapped, vertically stacked (two rows) shield walls showing up a lot in fiction/movies, that's not how they worked historically. 1/13 https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1291962889323020288
Public opinion and voters, not the streets, is the 'center of gravity' (in the Clausewitzian sense, DRINK!).
This is a *super* common theme of all sorts of asymmetric contests: get the big conventional force to overreact and use its massive violence to spread your message. 6/13
Instead, protests like this focus on a strategy of *revealing* police violence for what it is, by creating opportunities for police to overreact and reveal their violence in situations where it can be observed and documented and thus shift public opinion. 5/13
I reject the false dicitomy of polcie versus their neighbors. We can’t try to peddle community policing strategies but then angrily reject when the community actually decides how it’s done. They should decide. Who else would? We need to change what it means to be police in the US
fml the husband said there was "a giant spider in the bedroom with dust bunnies stuck to it," could I come and "take care of it"
so I went & got the tweezers & pulled the dust bunnies off & was like YAYYYYY THERE I FIXED IT SHE'S BEAUTIFUL NOW
