Yo yo yo! This July 25, support antifascist prisoners! Lots of ways to engage--from hosting a benefit to writing letters from wherever you are!
Let's make sure the folx from the front lines know that we have their backs!
Y'all realize that when he says "ANTIFA" he means everyone on the streets? That he means anyone who protests or opposes his regime ever? This has nothing to do with whether you like antifa or even what antifa is about. You're not safe just because you think you're not "antifa".
Hundreds of anti-fascists successfully blocked fascists from marching in Leipzig, Germany. One line of defense was "Omas gegen rechts" or "Grandmas against the right".
This evening, Brazil’s extreme-right President Jair Bolsonaro went out and about in Brasilia, tried to eat a hotdog, was called a murderer, and got run out of town.
In Catalonia & the rest of the world, the police are the reactionary force of the State against the people. It doesn’t matter if you’re non-violent, if you’re just standing on the sidewalk, or more energetically engaged in protest.
CW: Police brutality
You'd think organizing a torch march with hundreds of Nazis chanting "blood and soil" and "jews will not replace us" would be enough to clue people in to the fact Richard Spencer is a fascist who hates Jews, but we guess that undercut really convinced people otherwise.
For the record, antifa is short for antifascist or antifascist action. We believe in & fight for a world free of fascism, racism, sexism, homo/transphobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia & bigotry. The protests are leaderless. All power to the people!
This is what "LAW & ORDER" looks like: running red lights, attempting to run people over, macing everyone within distance, and covering up their plates. While the police watch lalalalalala.
stop thinking of life as some hollywood movie where it ends with everyone holding hands and the cops learning a valuable lesson. it ends with flash bangs, tear gas, and your ass in jail cell unless you collectively stop falling for this bs.
if they call a 75yo man who was returning their helmet to them an 'agitator' to justify their horrific brutality, that just demonstrates how utterly meaningless and untethered to reality the term "agitator" is. we're all agitators to them.
Let's have some fun & play
#DoxxAllYourBoys
shall we? Here are most of the Proud Boys who posed for a group pic after mob beating 3 people while yelling homophobic slurs. They'd just come from Gavin's murder reenactment. Check out this archive for details.
antifascists have been saying for years that if you give fascists and the far right an inch, they will try and take a mile. the time to crush fascist and far right movements is in their infancy. that is the crux of antifascist action.
SUPER FUN FACT: Richard Spencer is an outcast, flat broke, and his life is in shambles because people showed solidarity with the targets of fascism and took action, rather than staying home and doing nothing as some liberal grifters would have people do.
somehow the fucking shooter didn't get beaten by police and shot with rubber bullets. 🤔 it's been the same story every single time one of these reactionaries have attempted to kill or successfully killed someone at the protests.
people in nyc keep finding each other on the streets and spontaneously joining forces.
despite the incredible violence by the nypd. despite the bootlicking politicians. despite the weather. despite the curfew.
never in the history of our collective protest experience have we seen as much solidarity from random ass people in the streets as we did tonight.
this is a *popular* movement, in all senses.
Every single media outlet that has interviewed Richard Spencer as if he has a legitimate perspective should make a public apology for platforming fascist scum like Richard Spencer.
step 1: cops are bigots
step 2: training gets mandated
step 3: cops are still bigots
step 4: more training is mandated
repeat until 100% of your budget goes to police
A lot of people who don't monitor the far right, think of these marches as one-offs. It's one reason they breezily suggest "ignoring them." Meanwhile, these events allow the far right to mingle, build power, recruit, and gain experience. It's never just one thing in isolation
4 levels of security include: moving the barricades to let them in, not guarding the door, taking selfies with them, and generally just let letting them do it
since 'orwellian' is trending: george orwell fought the fascists in spain and literally wrote: "if i had understood the situation a bit better i should probably have joined the anarchists."
after a couple weeks of daily police brutality against the protests, it's now switching to daily attacks by fascists and the far right against the protests.
cops and the klan work hand in hand.
We warn time & again that the Far Right is using social media to recruit & radicalize. They don't just use Gab or 8chan. They use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, & Youtube. The response by tech companies is to simper at these murderous scumbags & "both sides" the issue.
#Complicit
it's almost as if the government uses the spectre of "left radicalism" as a boogeyman to justify its authoritarianism and brutality against its "citizens"
There was an abortion access protest in Dallas, Texas today that was protected by armed pro-choice activists. Predictably, online Far Right personalities cried about it.
The right wing--but especially antisemites--will always try & co-opt calls for action/unity against "elites". It happened during Occupy Wall Street & it's happening during this time of Big Stonk Energy. The course of action isn't to deny it exists but to isolate & call it out.
What is community self-defense?
One example is when parents form a wall to keep Proud Boy scum from entering a library and intimidating and scaring children at a pride story time.
Saxony‘s neo-Nazis and Covid conspiracy theorists are staging a motorcade through Leipzig. Sadly, there seems to be an unusual number of very slow bikes on the roads. Rotten luck.
#Le0603
Also: These protests are not about "ANTIFA." They are about George Floyd & the struggle against white supremacy & police murders/brutality. This focused nonsense is a means to "discredit" the protests (with antifascism?), as well as divide and disempower the people on the streets
"Antifa" is simply short for anti-fascist or anti-fascist action. There are groups, like NYC Antifa or Rose City Antifa, & there are people who call themselves antifa, because they identify as anti-fascists.
Most people are 100% "antifa," btw.
fuck it, new york. if they're gonna call this city an "anarchist jurisdiction" might as well hoist up the black flag, give the land back, abolish capitalism, destroy the prisons, abolish ice, and work together to make sure our individual and collective needs are met.
Antifa is trending so it's a good time to say antifa is short for antifascist or antifascist action. We believe in & fight for a world free of fascism, racism, sexism, ableism, homo/transphobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia & all bigotry. Full stop against the Far Right nightmare!
For those arguing that taking action against racists and fascists “plays into their hands,” after Anning was egged he and his party tanked in elections two months later and Anning popularity —online and off —has completely waned.
Hundreds of kids walked out of Brooklyn Tech today to protest the continuation of in person school during the Omicron wave and to call for a remote option
"The private security guard was contracted through Pinkerton by 9NEWS."
Pinkertons are well known for things (look up the Homestead and McCormick strikes), being on the radical left is def not one of them.
In 2019, Eduardo Bolsonaro (one of the sons) joined Steve Bannon’s far-right nationalist group called The Movement. He was also in DC during the January 6th siege on the Capitol. Just something to keep in mind.
What's "funny" about this, is that in Portland, OR, a right wing group closely affiliated with Proud Boys was found by cops on a rooftop with loaded guns in view of the antifascist counter-protest. The cops just told them to pack it up and let them return to the protest.
The "free speech absolutist" and apartheid emerald mine beneficiary has suspended
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REMINDER: Roger Stone was tight w/ the Proud Boys & used them as “security” for events. Here he is with some violent boys from the PNW—notably Russell Schultz, who attacked people outside a Planned Parenthood & Jake Farmer, the racist & antisemitic Vancouver chapter head.
An eyewitness said that when the shooting began in the Al Noor mosque, women around him rose up and screamed “Do not come here,” with some of them charging towards the gunman.
May we all be this brave in confronting fascism & may we do it before the stakes become even higher.
Every single group on the left must come up with a plan to deal with fascists gloming onto the anti-war movement. Fascists and the far-right must be removed wherever and whenever they show up. Nazis out. Always.
Former alt-right rapper Baked Alaska now says he regrets joining the racist movement: “It’s been a pretty big disaster...It’s been terrible for my employment opportunities."
We have been able to confirm what other Members of Congress have heard & seen:
-no showers for over 40 days.
-lights are kept on all night & people are sleeping on concrete floors.
-some are complaining they have gone hungry.
in case you were curious, here's the nypd's response to the lawsuit and investigation which found "an egregious abuse of police power; rampant, excessive use of force; and leadership unable and willing to stop it."
We joke about our Big Antifa Daddy Soros cuz it's absurd a billionaire would fund a bunch of anarchists. But Trump's mention of "Soros" is less about the actual man, and more a stand-in for the anti-Semitic "globalist" narrative, with it's "JeWz ConTroL tHe WoRLd" bullshit.
cops can't tell the difference between a taser and gun, nor can they tell the difference between wallets, candy bars, cell phones, hairbrushes, and numerous other objects and guns.
"Some of his classmates joked that he’d be a mass shooter one day. 'I personally believe he went to Wisconsin with the intent to kill,' said one former classmate, who asked not to be identified out of fear for their safety."