We’ve expanded our Demonstrator’s Guides series with a detailed new article on the various approaches to constructing and using reinforced banners and shields.
During periods of ongoing, evolving and escalating demonstrations, tactical developments by protestors or police can quickly change the contexts, disrupting patterns or roadblocks that emerge. As any athlete can tell you, for maximum power, strength and flexibility should go hand in hand. In this guide, the authors share insights from iterating their banner design to make them strong, lightweight and mobile.
Reinforced banners and shields can be merely defensive tools, but in practice they have a wide variety of applications: “What reinforced banners bring to the table is their size and their physical and organizational power.” And as we’ve written about previously, the paradoxical reality is that the front of a demonstration can be the safest.
