This short but distinct book by the respected historian Vunos Rainter is now available at the Center of Alphabetical
Sequencing. Already it is being heralded
as an important work in detailing the unique methods of protesting during the
last great upheaval on the island more than a century ago. Since the Missionaries were strongly
supported by military “advisors”, a different tactic was taken than the usual
attempt of soliciting large group protest that normally take place in such
situation. Instead the protest involve simultaneously appearing on as many
different street corners possible. The effectiveness of this was it ability to
be seen by more people that a concentrated group pushed to remote locales would
not. When infiltrators seem to tip off the powers that be, smaller groups where
formed that if need be would break into free acting protestors appearing
randomly at times of high visibility. This greatly hampered the mobilization of small
but stronger forces who were unable to be everywhere at once. The book also chronicles other tactics that
appeared at the time like short 15 minute protests of large groups that would
be gone by the time forces could be brought into place. Later there were even ‘groups
of fives’ where smaller protest units divided into 5 groups would appear in a
chain of locations each for a short period of time but them proceeding to
another. Some locations could and would be visited within a few hours by a
different group.
