Organising a student protest

My postgrad students returned today, and the undergrads are due to arrive this week.

One of the postgrads remarked that the undergrads might get involved in any Mass Action that is called.

Apparently it won’t happen on our campus because there isn’t a good main road to block and the police post is too small to bother with.

For a good protest one should have a big road near to student housing, for running away, and a police station. The Uhuru Highway (the biggest in the country) is ideal; blockages will cause an impact, it’s got a roundabout next to student accommodation on the main campus, and the central police station is only 200m away.

If this isn’t enough to get the police out for a fight, it may still be necessary to throw some stones at the police station to get them out.

Either way, when it gets to lunch time both sides will go to eat and reassemble at the agreed time.

Sounds rather like the previous city centre rallies. (And very different from the slum fights.)