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Sample Short Agenda for Prague 2000:

• Introductions 10 min.
  
  
• Agenda Review 5
  
  
• Victory Brainstorm 10
  
  
• Direct Actionówhy we do it 10
  
  
• Hassle Lines: 30
  
  
  • Blockader/tourist
    
    
  • Blockader/media
    
    
  • Debrief with discussion of nonviolence as communication, specific techniques and principles
    
    
• Practical Resistance Techniques: 30
  
  
  • Going limp, puppy piling, self protection from beating, etc., linking arms, getting dragged, etc, etc.ódemonstrations and practice
    
    
  • Gas, Pepper spray, what to wear to the action
    
    
• Affinity Groups 15
  
  
  • How they function, different roles, spokescouncil model of organization, etc. Introduce and describe. Be sure to describe the role of support in an action.
    
    
• Decision Making: 30
  
  
  • Introduction to Consensus decision making, roles, steps in the processódifferent groups and cultures use different models
    
    
  • Practice role play:
    
    
  • In affinity groups (if present) or form mock affinity groups, practice a decision. Some suggestions:
    
    
  • Quick decision: (5 minutes) You are an affinity group who has chosen to stay with the large, legal march on the 26th. The march is blocked by police. Four other marches peel off the main march to attempt to encircle the center. Do you stay with the main march, join a smaller march, try to push through the police lines, go out to lunch? Or?
    
    
  • Longer decision: (15 minutes) You are an affinity group planning to be in Pragueó come up with a creative, autonomous action for the morning of the 26th.
    
    
• Jail/Legal:
  
  
  • I suggest ideally a separate legal briefing given by lawyers, and/or a handout about our rights under Czech law.
    
    
• Brief basic legal info: 10
  
  
• Surviving jailóintroduce ideas of self organizing, solidarity, protection techniques, emotional survival and post jail support. 15
  
  
• Jail role play: 15
  
  
  • The group has been arrested. They are all together, for the moment, in a holding area. Give them some time to begin organizing (finding out who is there, is anyone missing? Hurt? Setting up a plan for contacting supporters if and when phone calls are available, etc.) As they are discussing, guards move in, grab someone who appears to be a leader, and attempt to remove that person. The role play itsel can be fairly short, leave time to discuss.
    
    
• Action role play: 30
  
  
  • Role play a scenario based on what we anticipate in the action, and discuss. It could expand on one of the role plays described above.
    
    
• Evaluate/Close: 10
  
  
• This is four hours exactly with no break. If translation is necessary, it will all take longer. To shorten it, Iíd probably combine the consensus role play with the final blockade role playóyou might find other parts that could be trimmed. This is, of course, my suggestionóyou might come up with a different agenda of your own, and priorities may change as the situation changes closer to the action.

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