Right now people on the streets are acquiring materials like this.
Cops are putting up barricades and people are taking them down. How awesome would it be to re-purpose these into useful objects? I love the idea of taking something intended to restrict our freedom and using it to support our freedom instead. Here are some potential uses off the top of my head:
- The saw-horse style barricades can be used to support tarps for a sleeping shelter
- Two saw horses can be used to hold up a work table. I could see a half dozen being made into a workable kitchen counter.
- You can also make benches, as the creative gentlemen to the left here demonstrate.
- Gardening. Use the sawhorses to hold the clear plastic for cold-frames. Use the metal barricades as trellises for tomato plants.
- The metal barricades could be used as the frame for a bed. Cut one in half to use as the head board and foot board.
- Use the frames as support to hold protest signs. Stretch canvas over the frame and make your own billboards.
- The top part of the sawhorse is just a board. Dozens could be used to frame any kind of structure you want.
And I'm sure that a thousand other uses will present themselves. We're taking them down anyway, why should material go to waste? Lets re-purpose the tools of oppression into the support structure of freedom.
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