Fozz, a union organizer by trade, has been on suspension for the past four months after his involvement with the PSJBCG during his off hours was made the subject of an investigation at work. The project distorts history and glorifies such Communists as Agnes Smedley, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Che Guevara. “I asked them the question, why do you guys have such a problem with a Jew standing up to neo-Nazis that are threatening his neighborhood?”. They conducted protests against the Bill of Rights Institute, including publicly at the 2014 National Council for the Social Studies annual meeting, and then claimed victory when the Institute was absent in 2015. AntiFa is the Democrat Party’s brownshirts and they’re getting topcover from the media. This right includes the right to own, carry, and train with tactically useful rifles, pistols, and body armor. For Vixen, the decision to join came from the threats rightwing extremism poses to her identity. I’m confused. We legally train community members for the purpose of community defense, and we don’t rely on the state to do our work for us. Ohio- Scioto RedneckRevolt, Cincinnati John Brown Gun Club. [35], In October 2017, a branch of Redneck Revolt in Suffolk County, New York was involved in organizing a candlelight vigil for people suffering from opioid addiction and families affected by the opioid epidemic. The same place that calls for the ‘squads’ immediate disavowal, censure, and expulsion from the House. [15] Although their goals are similar, Redneck Revolt members do not cover their faces and seek to be "as upfront about who [they] are and what [they]'re doing as possible". “Teaching More Civics Will Not Save Us from Donald Trump,” by curriculum writer Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, takes issue with traditional civics, i.e., teaching the Constitution as “holy text.” For Wolfe-Rocca, “the evil of … the white supremacist, nativist, misogynist language we have heard spill from the lips of Donald Trump resonates with the 39 percent who steadfastly support him precisely because it has deep roots in U.S. history and politics” — a history of “land theft, genocide, slavery, and the disenfranchisement of women and people of color.”.
[1], Silver Valley Redneck Revolt, a local chapter, organized a counter-demonstration against a Ku Klux Klan rally in Asheboro, North Carolina in May 2017. I am scared of a...Read More, The Zinn Education Project: Teaching Trump-Hate and Other Dogma. The atmosphere was subdued, except for the occasional joke. “I would relate to them based on my own experience with violence and share my choice to protect myself.”, For many other left-leaning organizations, guns remain a difficult topic. [4] The increased visibility of Redneck Revolt in 2017 has sparked debate among activists over the effects of armed protest and the possibility that the use of guns may lead to heightened violence. They declared support for those opposing Trump, including immigrants, LGBTQ people and Muslims. While the group has not used deadly force, a former member of the group, Willem Van Spronsen, recently made headlines when he was killed by police after trying to set fire to Ice vehicles in a parking lot outside the Northwest Detention Center In Tacoma, Washington, a private immigration detainment facility.
“We do our actions proportional to the threat, so when other people are out with rifles, we’ll be out with rifles,” Nick, the group’s de facto spokesperson, explained. [22] Speaking to Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, one of Redneck Revolt's co-founders said the group's membership includes veterans, former Republicans and former members of the 3 Percenters. club In the weeks prior, word spread that a number of white … [11] Administrative and communications activities are divided equally along lines of gender. [1] In a May 2017 interview, a member said the group uses guns only in self-defense and in "response to a rise in politically motivated violence and intimidation against vulnerable communities". BTW did you mean to imply that Dorner was some kind of lefty? “We are not. In many schools, ZEP lessons supplement Zinn’s book. Consider some of the lessons: “Deportations on Trial: Mexican Americans During the Great Depression” begins, “The Trump administration’s war on immigrants has been nothing short of horrifying in its scope.”.
NEW YORK - Asian shares looked set to climb on Tuesday as investors shrugged off U.S. election jitters and took hope in strong factory output data in China, Europe and the United States, although the, Navy Seal Matt Bracken is on the show today to provide some historical perspective about the coming Civil War 2.0 in America. There are 32 chapters across the U.S. and counting. If a conservative gun club had a member commit a shooting like this, they’d be all over TV begging and pleading for permission to exist while wearing sack cloth and ashes. Kuhn argued that "organizations with the aim to primarily mobilize and organize among the white working class [...] are mandatory if we don't want to simply abandon this part of the population and hand it to the right on a silver platter".[51]. The group's website includes statements in opposition to capitalism, the nation state, white supremacy and "the wars of the rich" and advocates a "right of militant resistance".