No, no, never, don’t return fire. There are better ways. They go low, you go high—organize and spook them every way you can think of.

Examples? You’ll have better ideas. The Portland costumes, 10 out of 10. These guys trudged down the road nearly silent, took up the whole road, that’s enlivening or intimidating.

1. Flash mob phone tree, exchange numbers with every community member you meet. Ask several if you can text them for loc of a FM to materialize, ICE maps vulnerable areas with dense groupings of targets. Sing Amazing Grace, not all at once, everyone different, take 3 steps and a rest on 4, everyone stepping in all directions.

2. Game face, say, “Pardon,” pardon? To every question or request, “Is this urgent?, is this urgent?”

3. Whistles, waving one arm, like a referee, like a crazy person, only everyone. Looking at one another and not agents. Don’t engage.

4. Stand still like statues, think-yourself heavy, immovable—(it works, try it with a partner), in the way.

5. Don’t meet their eyes—talk at them in urgent low voices. Engage, speak rapidly, don’t look at them but address them, babble, real sentences, “Saw the game on Sunday explain … Went to Spain one summer, explain, blahblah, don’t stop, like an urgent stream of consciousness, but don’t engage, everyone talk.

6. Half people bring a rake, broom, or shovel, other half, partners, take images, and pose in the road for photos in low voices or silence—especially get between agents and targets, “Excuse me” to one another and agents, as pose or move past ppl.

7. Waste their time.

Don’t think “violence-meets-violence” EVER does any good. Don’t engage. Whistles. Voices, only not shouting, speak urgently low growl to one another.