It does both. No need for an either/or
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Not when police are on the side of ICE
Because the Portland cops are a bunch of Nazis who wish they could do what ICE does.
3M in particular sells a lot of filters designed for particular industrial chemicals, but which might not do much for tear gas. The 60921 should work.
The Mira CBRN filters are designed for chemical warfare and should also work.
All I can say is that your experience is wildly different from any I've run into, and would be really unlikely unless you did something.
This is utter nonsense. Just show up and don't be an asshole. Nobody is going to kick you out over skin color or gender.
Invite folks to join you at a protest, or canvassing, or almost anything else that is more than zero. A big chunk of the population can be hooked on action if somebody they know asks.
He did, but it wasn't actually a serious attempt. Just posting a meme
Those are concerns that tend to have local laws empowering people to block projects. "It creates too much traffic for my residential street" has the potential to stop something like this using established comfortable mechanisms when "They're planning to round us up and murder us" might not.
You don't, but it is something that lets you organize a community in a way that enables them to act, for good or for ill. No reason to cede that exclusively to those who want to create a worse world