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Thank you for all the clarifications. Your question is valid and important. I will brainstorm some ideas and most of them will be shit.

First of all, these conversations seem repetitive to you because you’ve been around for a while snd you’ve been paying attention. Things that encourage long-term engagement with these topics and interests, rather than a one time dabbling, help toward your desired goal.

So people sticking around, staying in contact, having discussions when these things happen, discussions that build on the previous one, not starting anew each time. Getting to know each other so you’re not starting from zero.

People that have been around for the while share their experiences and thoughts through written word, including things like twitter. We know the advantages, limits and pitfalls of these.

Now for brainstorm:

-A huge banner or two at a very visible spot (like a building facade facing the street longitudinally) saying something along the lines of what to do, what not to do, for rookies. Could be framed as protests cliches to avoid, or “broke vs woke” lists.
The idea is to put practical things, not jokes. What would you write in that banner that would help a mom or dad bloc as it arrives?

-Distribute flyers, or wheat-paste posters previous to expected protest with clear tips, not unnecessary slogans or rhetoric. This has been done to some extent, but can be done better.

-Host videos or video conferences on the topic and advertise to newbies/rookies.

-Keep a field book and journal and share your experiences. Make a club where people share them with each other.

Making information available to all also means cops will have it, there are ways to curtail this, but those are the risk you’d have to take.

-Also, try innovative things, either with experience people you know, or getting some newbies together. If these innovations work and are visible, they will be imitated to some degree. This relies on word of mouth, and mass media (includes internet).

Lastly I’ll comment that there are more effective ways of sharing tips against things to avoid or what to do in protests within the general format of street confrontations, as well as sabotage manuals and even combat manuals, but there seems to be very little effectiveness (there are plenty of texts and websites and projects aiming to do this) in the resources dedicated to “winning the hearts and minds”, using the enemies’ terms, towards anarchy. Mutual Aid projects at most help people help each other, and when explicitly anarchist, help paint them in s benign light.

How to get people stop wanting, demanding and counting on cops, government, army, etc?

You can share tactics all you want. But if your anarchist goals and desires are not shared by the now tactic savvy crowd, you won’t end up where you wanted. You’ll defeat a police force in street battle, or even topple a a government just to institute another one that’s more of the same shit. This also a lesson to be learned from history and not the most popular one during times of revolt.