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Comment by pyuser583 | Hacker News Reader

A memo to your colleagues on why your conscience requires you to quit.

Personal letters explaining what you gave up, financially and otherwise, because of your beliefs.

These are powerful, powerful things.

“Taking over” an office is not powerful. In fact this entire narrative has been constructed by Google, with almost personal testimony from those involved.

It was easy to silence them because they never really spoke up.

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Taking over could be powerful if well prepared. These couragous activists probably lacked experience in efficient protest modes and why they work

A corporate office is not like an administration building at a soft-handed university. There's no way you are going to successfully take over an office for any real amount of time unless you are willing to use real violence and potentially get into some kind of hostage situation.

The police will be called, there will be more of them than of you, and they will remove you.

Protest is a show. You don't need to take over for days, you just need the protest to have maximum reach which in our time could happen in minutes. Obvious things they should have done : Inform their colleagues beforehand, so they be in the know, plan around it, and why not participate in some form. Inform journalists and smuggle them into the buildings. Police intervention is planned for and should be a major part of the show.

Journalists know better than to get involved in something like that. They would be asked to leave immediately (it's super easy to notice people standing around filming what's going on who aren't wearing employee badges), and then they would of course leave immediately as they aren't willing to catch a trespass charge just for one page 17 news article.

depends on which journalist you chose

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