Friends don’t let friends enter highly-charged and heavily armed oppositional demonstration spaces without a clearly articulated plan and a high level of coordination with well-defined allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trusting our instincts only works when we are very familiar with our environment and aware of the ways that a situation can change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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