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If you have the time, reach and infrastructure to prepare, that might be a great opportunity for direct action. Everyone participating should have questions ready, both memorised and on paper about all the issues that have plagued other places: water pressure, water quality, power draw, heat islands. The paper helps with keeping the message consistent, jog memory under pressure, isn’t a big deal if taken away and can be handed or shown to curious bystanders. Have someone clean up afterwards too, don’t want any bullshit about littering obscuring the point.

Ask the administration how they are going to protect you against those risks. Stay polite, calm, but firm. Again, don’t give people grounds to attack your rudeness. Demand specific, actionable promises in writing and be persistent. You probably won’t get them, and they won’t voluntarily keep them, but the point is showing that you care enough about the issue to spend your time wasting theirs and to create the psychological pressure of people asking uncomfortable questions they’d rather ignore.

Prepare mentally and physically to be arrested, beaten, thrown in jail, all the customary honors afforded to those who challenge power. Cover yourself and each other to prevent serious injury, but don’t lash out at them. Stop anyone who does. They’ll be fishing for a pretext to disperse you with violence, may even send provocateurs to create one. Don’t let them have it. They might escalate anyway, but the sooner you give them a reason, the sooner and harder they will retaliate. That’s not a fight you’re gonna win, so avoid it as long as possible, because a protest is more effective the longer the protesters can last.

When the day is done, have some safe place (virtual or physical) to regroup and discuss what happened, what went wrong, what you achieved. If you got some promise, plan a way to hold them to it. If not, find a new way to disrupt and show them your not going ro just shrug and drop the matter.