SafeSymbols
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SafeSymbols is a coded system of communication created to help people communicate under duress. It could be adopted by any community or group of people anywhere, to help basic communication and open the door to resistance against the tyrannical force that is keeping them from communicating in the first place.

One of the first few steps usually adopted by anyone trying to take over or control a community or region today, is the implementation of the concept of ‘divide and rule’. With the world’s population shooting up, most usurping dictators or tyrannical governments are afraid of the masses, and desperately try to prevent group gatherings and crowds coming together, thereby keeping a hold on revolutionary thought and the prospect of resistance groups coming together to stand against their oppressors.

A hobo is a migrant worker or homeless vagrant, especially one who is impoverished. The term originated in the Western—probably Northwestern—United States around the end of the 19th century. Over time, a set of glyphs that came to be down as the Hobo Code began to circulate amongst their community - various symbols that took inspiration from the concept and methods of propagation that the Egyptians used to communicate through Hieroglyphics. The diverse symbols in the Hobo Code could be found scrawled in coal or chalk at the corner of buildings, or on doors and gates all across the country and are a fascinating system of communication symbols. The purpose of the code is not only to help others find what they needed, but to keep the entire lifestyle possible for everyone - featuring symbols that would give fellow hobos information such as ‘public bathroom here’; or ‘kind old lady lives here’.

SafeSymbols is usable in much the same way as the hobo code - it is to be scribbled or etched on to corners of buildings, homes, or electrical poles and other such visible public spaces - to inform others within a community that a house is safe or unsafe; is willing to offer or in desperate need of food or medicine, or just to alert others to the existence of a police barricade, perhaps. It is a system that borrows from the hobo code, and is also simple enough for anyone with a piece of chalk or a sharp stone to be able to scribble on to any available surface within seconds. We hope that this coded system is helpful to communities that are struggling to communicate due to a multitude of reasons, and urge readers to contribute and add symbols to grow the system into a global language for secret communication under duress.

The current set of symbols have been divided into three categories:
- For roads
- For homes
- Needs

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