The Corporate Strategy to Win The War Against Grassroots Activists: Stratfor’s Strategies

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.popularresistance.org/heres-how-the-corporations-defeat-political-movements/

Divide activists into four groups: Radicals, Idealists, Realists and Opportunists. The Opportunists are in it for themselves and can be pulled away for their own self-interest. The Realists can be convinced that transformative change is not possible and we must settle for what is possible. Idealists can be convinced they have the facts wrong and pulled to the Realist camp. Radicals, who see the system as corrupt and needing transformation, need to be isolated and discredited, using false charges to assassinate their character is a common tactic.

Part 1 of this exclusive Mint Press News investigation examined the strategies employed by Stratfor precursor Pagan International. So named for its founder Rafael Pagan, corporate clients hired the company with the aim of defusing grassroots movements mobilized against them around the world.

(More at the link.)

[Champion Jack]

1. Kicked for later

[limpyhobbler]

2. It's kind of crazy that it's not just abstract. I think they probably collect peoples pictures

and keep files on people. Creepozoids.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. TransCanada were caught with a slideshow of peaceful activists, teaching cops they're terrorists.

By name.

http://ecowatch.com/2013/transcanada-caught-training-police-nonviolent-keystone-xl-protesters-terrorists/

An Occupy Oakland member, arrested and being perp walked through the OPD station, saw through an open doorway a large board with all of their pictures and lines connecting who knows whom, etc.

The FBI and DHS shared info on Occupiers with the corporations we targeted.



"And that's precisely what seems to have happened in 2011-2012 in Phoenix, as Occupy Phoenix protesters, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, the East Timor Action Network and others organized a series of demonstrations in front of Freeport-McMoran's downtown Phoenix offices. Documents show that PPD was working directly with the company to provide them with intel about what protesters were up to. Just how much? It's not clear, but it could have been a lot. And it could have gone as far as DHS as well.

As several of the emails now available for review about police actions during that period show, cops made sure to include Freeport-McMoran corporate security manager Tom Tyo (a retired MCSO captain) in their conversation. In these emails they coordinate security and share information about the protest, when it will arrive, how many will attend and information about potential tactics. There were several of these protests.

We don't know what else they shared in part because we don't know what was said in phone calls, but also because large numbers of documents in the time period including these protests were released completely redacted, totally blacked out. However, protesters and organizations are named in police documents surrounding the protests."

http://downanddrought.blogspot.com/2013/06/did-phoenix-police-and-fbi-fusion.html


"The document – reproduced here in an easily searchable format – shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity: in some cases, bearing a single name, the Domestic Security Alliance Council. And it reveals this merged entity to have one centrally planned, locally executed mission. The documents, in short, show the cops and DHS working for and with banks to target, arrest, and politically disable peaceful American citizens."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy

Cross-department sharing of information is specifically redacted in FIOA-sourced documents.

Cops, banks, corporations etc. took MANY photos and videos during OccupyLA actions. Sometimes I spent time recording them recording us.

[Demeter]

3. This strategy works...until it's overwhelmed by events

and because it works, the possibility of being overwhelmed grows daily.

And that is the usual trajectory of any effort to maintain a status quo artificially by suppression.