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Resources About Tear Gas [1]

Overviews about the tear gas industry:

“U.S. Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets Suppress Peaceful Uprisings Around the World” // Click here [2]

“Tracking Tear Gas” by OWS Global Justice Working Group // Click here [3]
 

Images & Comics:

Click here [4] for a comic in English on Tear Gas Economics and more by Ethan Heitner and the Global Justice Working Group at Occupy Wall St. (Arabic language edition here [5].)

Click here [6] for an image gallery devoted to Tear Gas.

January 2012, Manama, Bahrain

 

Organizations:

Bahrain Center for Human Rights [7]

 Critical Resistance [8]
 

 Omega Research Foundation [9]
 

 Physicians for Human Rights [10]

 

 U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation [11]
 

 

Videos:

“Made in the USA: Tear Gas on the Streets of Cairo” // Documentary [12] about US tear gas in Egypt.

Split Normality // Documentary [13] about the crushing of the Syntagma Square occupation

The Battle for Attica Square // Documentary [14]about immigration in Greece
 

 

Learn more about US “military aid” and weapons sales:

Learn about “Direct Contract Sales [15]” and “Foreign Military Sales [16],” and the differences between the two (contains figures for total sales from the US, by country)

US Department of Defense website on “security cooperation [17]”

List of press releases for all foreign military sales [18]

Overview of Leahy Law and vetting process // Click here [19] (Human Rights Watch)
 

Reports:

ACLU: Pepper Spray Update: More Fatalities, More Questions [20]

Amnesty: Arms for Internal Security [21]

Physicians For Human Rights: Weaponizing Tear Gas: Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians [22]

Physicians For Human Rights: The Use of Tear Gas in the Republic of Korea: A Report by Health Professionals [23]

B'Tselem: Crowd Control: Israel's Use of Crowd Control Weapons in the West Bank [24]

Seattle Forecast: Tear Gas Clouds and Chronic Health Problems [25]
 

Other:

"Tear Gas Identification" //  Blog [26] dedicated to documenting and identifying photos of tear gas canisters.
 

Topics: 

  • Direct Action [27]
  • Egypt [28]
  • Militarism [29]
  • Police [30]
  • Tear Gas [31]
  • WRL History [32]

Resource Type: 

  • Workshop/Training Resources [33]

Source URL: https://www.warresisters.org/resources/resources-about-tear-gas

Links
[1] https://www.warresisters.org/resources/resources-about-tear-gas
[2] http://publicintelligence.net/u-s-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-suppress-peaceful-uprisings-around-the-world/
[3] http://occupiedmedia.us/2012/02/tracking-tear-gas/
[4] https://warresisters.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/nomoretears.pdf
[5] https://warresisters.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/nomoretears-arabiceditionv3.pdf
[6] https://www.flickr.com/photos/80330230@N06/?uploaded=3&magic_cookie=d08e6df3b81c25f4fc62f6268234b454
[7] http://www.bahrainrights.org
[8] http://criticalresistance.org/
[9] http://www.omegaresearchfoundation.org/
[10] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/
[11] http://endtheoccupation.org/
[12] http://vimeo.com/34526996
[13] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XdbSIvm9PQ
[14] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPl9PW7ONIQ
[15] http://justf.org/Program?program=Direct_Commercial_Sales
[16] http://justf.org/Program?program=Foreign%20Military%20Sales
[17] http://www.dsca.mil/pressreleases/faq.htm
[18] http://www.dsca.mil/PressReleases/36-b/36b_index.htm
[19] http://www.humanrights.gov/2011/10/06/an-overview-of-the-leahy-vetting-process/
[20] http://www.aclu-sc.org/issues/police-practices/pepper-spray/
[21] http://www.amnesty.org/en/campaigns/control-arms/reports/arms-for-internal-security-will-they-be-covered-by-an-arms-trade-treaty
[22] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/reports/weaponizing-tear-gas.html
[23] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/reports/the-use-of-tear-gas-in-korea.html
[24] http://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/201212_crowd_control
[25] http://www.bvsde.paho.org/bvsacd/cd57/teargas.pdf
[26] https://teargasid.wordpress.com/
[27] https://www.warresisters.org/topics/direct-action
[28] https://www.warresisters.org/topics/egypt
[29] https://www.warresisters.org/topics/militarism
[30] https://www.warresisters.org/topics/police
[31] https://www.warresisters.org/topics/tear-gas
[32] https://www.warresisters.org/topics/wrl-history
[33] https://www.warresisters.org/resources/workshoptraining-resources