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We're going to be doing some planning on both the M4L events here. The channels are condensed for my own ease of access. You are not to tell anyone outside these channels of any of these details.

Right now, I need to find three locations for each city.

Security Checkpoint: Security Checks, Briefing, Funding Collection
Secondary Rallypoint (Dropsite): Disembarkment To Downtown, Marching To Demonstration Site: (Must be within 1-2 miles) of Rallypoint
After-Action Regroup: Large Park, Tables, Meeting Space For Exercise, Literature, Within 1hr of Downtown

Samuel/Grant: Your job is to find the above for DC. Metro.
Carter/Randolph: Your job is to find the above for Chicago.

Christopher/Norman: Your job(s) are to advise me on matters of logistics and security. I will plan and manage the formations of activists on the ground.

Radio Etiquette will be the same. Column Elements will be the same, except teams will be of 5, and will be split between flyers, comms, light shields (worn across back), and a flagbearer (for visibility).

We will be keeping minimum of 3 capable individuals at the VE, and leaving no personnel or gear at the original Checkpoint or Rallypoint. These three individuals will have instructions to set off car alarms (with keyfobs) and bring as much attention to any potential assailants as possible. The cars will be embedded in public lots with the vehicles of thousands of other marchers.

All phones will be taken at the Checkpoint, and not returned until the end of the action. We will move together as a convoy, and have radios for internal comms. This can be supplemented by pre-arranged burner phones for emergency navigation while on the road (extensive traffic may make it very hard to convoy). I am unsure of where phones will be during this time because I still do not like the idea of keeping them in one vehicle. The potential for accident (human or vehicular) is still too great to make me comfortable with that notion. Open to ideas. Faraday cages will be used. All bags and persons will be searched at Checkpoint.