Fucking awesome video.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      3·
      4 years ago

      They’re not trying to get in at least not for any length of time, they’re just doing enough damage to shut the thing down for several days and force it to stop production. You do this each time the factory operates again until it is no longer economically sustainable to just close it. Multiple Elbit factories like this one have been permanently closed this way.

      • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
        0·
        4 years ago

        What damage are they doing? They take some hammers and axe to a door. Barely doing damage. Toss something into the window that doesn’t seem to do any thing.

        The fight between the guards and the actors also looks very meh.

        • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          2·
          4 years ago

          You’re thinking with a spectacle mindset instead of a strategic one.

          Low damage attacks function to close these factories for a week or so while cleanup and repair occurs while also having the benefit of not actually damaging public opinion. They harm no human beings and there is no imagery that can be used as spectacle to turn public opinion against this kind of protest. By being only one step up from something XR does you get wide support.

          Additionally you don’t actually want to do anything that might land your activists in hot water, or increase danger to your activists in future. The target isn’t the security guards who are just doing their jobs, the target is the factory. Attacking a security guard with a fucking hammer in hand is going to lose you an activist for future attacks and instantly turn public opinion against you allowing for police to be heavy handed in response. It also means security guards in future will fucking treat you like you’re a personal threat to their physical safety (because you are).

          The strategy is to do enough damage to close the thing without losing public opinion while also making sure your activists aren’t prosecuted. Right now there hasn’t been a single prosecution in over a year of attacks on factories across the country, but if you burned down the building or physically attacked a human being prosecution would have to go ahead. For the time being this tactic has been working because it’s speculated that weapons company and the state doesn’t want the scrutiny of the legal process. They wouldn’t be able to ignore serious physical injury or something that would be a threat to life though.

          What you do is you grind the place to a halt with many attacks over time, creating a situation in which it would be better to just close the thing than keep it open because half the time it has to be closed anyway.

              • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
                0·
                4 years ago

                It’ll just move. Or up the gaurds. If it works cool.

                And yes that video is spectacle. The whole way it’s filmed is to make it look more serious than it actually is. Twisted angles, zoomin out real fast. Different colored smoke bombs. The jump suits

                It looks like a slipknot video.

                • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
                  3·
                  4 years ago

                  I’m not sure what part of keeping public support you don’t understand. You can look cool while also doing something effective at the same time, it generates organisation growth and increases the number of participants. If you want something shot in a different way then take a look at https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1539520043578531840

                  Or up the gaurds

                  Good, raises costs.

                  It’ll just move.

                  If they move, so be it. It won’t be in this country anymore. A win for the british people who don’t want to create weapons for israel on british soil.