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(4) Tear Gag: Chloracetophenone (CN) or Diphenyl- amine (DM or Adamasite) are termed “harassing agents" and are usually used in grenade form to demoralize, panic and disperse crowds, mobs and demonstrations. The effects of these gases extend beyond their visible cloud, and include a severe burning sensation in the eyes, choking, sneezing, headaches, and sometimes vomiting. There ia no defense against a gas attack except masks or leav~- ing the area. The chief immediate reaction is to panic and run. This should be avoided at all costs. It may help you to know that harassing gases cannot cause permanent injury or death by themselves. Grasp hands of demonstrators near you, and avoid running into the street (and risking getting run over since your visibility is impaired). Retreat in an orderly fashion from the scene. An assembly area should be picked beforehand and demonstrators should reassemble for further orders out of range of the gas. Clothing permeated with fumes should be changed. Persons affected by gas attack should face into the wind {assuming there is no further gas) and/or wash eyes and face in water (stick your head in a bucketful, if possibile). (5) Horses, dogs: The chief purpose of using cavalry and dogs is also psychological, even though it may . not seem that way to you. Some dogs are trained only to hold, not to bite, but don’t count on it. There are a number of methods which have been used against dogs and horses, but the violence involved is such that we don't recommend trying them. As in the case of gas, the best system is to hold out as long as you can and retreat in an orderly way, and in as dignified a manner as possible under the circumstances. The same thing is true when cattle prods are used. This can be extremely painful, and you should not feel it is disgraceful to retreat. Let your opponents make contact with you, hold out as long as you think wise or possible, and retreat in an orderly fashion. 86 Do not sit or lie down in front of horses unless you are prepared for severe, crippling injuries. Fire hoses: This is similar, except that if you hold on in a human chain you may be able to- withstand the pressure and not have to leave. - Hosing is usually followed by other counter- ° demonstration operations, however. (6 = {7) White participants: The white participant is singled out for special treatment by local oppo- nents of the civil rights movement. As a white he is seen as a traitor, which is worse than __ - being a Negro. His presence in the struggie . serves to undermine the delicate structure of © thinking and excuses which most white Souther- nera have created for themselves to account for segregation and discrimination. His pres- ence by itself tells them their system is a lie. It is a shock. Therefore, it infuriates. Jt has to be accounted for: the white participant is geen aa an outside agitator, a Communist, per-— haps a light-skinned Negro, and, if a woman, 2 prostitute. For no real white person (read: no- one from "our way of life") could walk with a sign, could "want a Negro to marry hia sister." Violence, if it errupts, tends therefore to focus on the white picket. In prison, white inmates will tend to gang up on, and will sometimes try to beat up white integrationist prisoners. Photographers: Police frequently try to intimi- date or harass demonstrators by photographing them. In our opinion there can be no legitimate reason for this since demonstrating as such is legal under the Constittion. You will recognize police (or F.B.1.) photographers because they take photographs of individual demonstrators rather than of the entire action. Regular news- men are not interested in individuals, and will generally be glad to identify themselves with press cards or union cards. In the long run (8 — 87 | re |