Bash Back! News

Perhaps the best music video of all time.

In light of the border preventing many Canadian folks from attending the 2010 BB! Convergence…

FIERCE & FABULOUS Presents…. Queeriot!!!

A summer convergence of radical queer insurgency!!!

It’s happening between the 10th and 13th of June. The events are generally looking pretty bad ass.

We’re organizing workshops, dance parties, a queercore show, teen open mic, poetry slam, art show, folk show, sex toy auction, spandex wrestling and more…

So, get yer fine asses down to Guelph in June (if yer not already here) and come have some fun!

If you’d like to help or want some info email us at fierce.n.fabulous1969@gmail.com

else there will updates on facebook and on our blog www.queers519.wordpress.com

Today, we received several e-mails pointing out an extremely troublesome,
racist image that we used in Pink and Black Attack #4. For this we offer
no excuses, but instead an apology. We are sincerely sorry for our
ignorance and bad decision in publishing the image. We have requested the
zine be pulled off of zinelibrary until we can remove the image and put up
a new version. We would also request that anyone who has printed off
multiple copies refrain from distributing this.

First, we would like to make it clear that the decision to use the image
was ours and ours alone, and that the original authors of the text, Gender
Mutiny, neither supplied, suggested, nor knew that we were using that
image in the article.

Second, we admit our ignorance and extremely poor judgement in publishing
the issue with the offensive image. We did not know the context of the
image, but on its face we should have seen that it is inappropriate.
Having learned the history of the image, we find ourselves ashamed to have
published
it. We are tremendously sorry and will commit to ensuring that no
similarly offensive images are present in any of our future issues.

Third, we appreciate that so many people wrote us to let us know of the
problem with the publication. We are grateful to the community for calling
us on our shit.

The zine is being removed from zinelibrary, and another version will be
released shortly.

We ask that anyone who is distributing the issue with the fucked up image
cease to do so, and wait until we put up a version of the issue without
the image.

We welcome comments and feedback, as always, and look forward to engaging
in constructive dialogue with anyone who so wishes.

-Pink and Black Attack
pinkandblackattack@riseup.net

In Pittsburgh’s Strip District, a shop ironically named Peace, Love, and Little Donuts is run by a a bigoted, right-wing asshole named Ron Razete.

Ron’s queer-bashing, misogynistic, and racist rhetoric was once publicly available on his blog which he has since deleted to hide his shameful views. However, thanks to google cache and local bloggers, his words live on. Here are some gems:

Razete called gays and lesbians an “immoral minority.”

“This crowd will not rest until Homosexuality is mainstream; until the Second Amendment is done away with; until abortion on demand is as common and accepted as going to the dentist.”

“Sadly, McCarthyism (he was right, by the way) was successfully so demonized.”

“Everyone doing his or her part to wrestle the future of America away from crazies, kooks and freaks. If not, trust me, Sarah is going to have way more than two Mommies.”

Read more here & here.

When Razete’s views came to the attention of Pittsburghers last fall, many people took passive actions like sending emails and writing bad reviews of the place online. Many boycotted, but the place stayed in business just fine and the reviews on the website Urbanspoon were censored and deleted. Though things seemed to die down as winter approached, radical queers would soon take matters into their own hands…

At 11:00 AM on January 16th, around twenty queers and allies occupied the tiny donut shop and the space in front of it. Our pink and black flag waved while our boombox blasted “You Made Me Gay” and other catchy tunes guaranteed to queer even the straightest of passersby.

We danced, sang, chanted, and had a wondrous time creating space for ourselves, all while handing out informative and celebratory flyers, signed with love by “the crazies, kooks, and freaks.”

Razete protested, denied the quotes we had taken from his own blog, and claimed he “hated the sin but not the sinner.”

With all of the love Ron had for the partiers, he still asked us all to leave, at which point a major queer make-out fest ensued inside his hateful donut shop. Ron’s discomfort angered him so that he physically pushed four occupants out into the street and slammed the door.

With a donut shop in distress, it was no surprise when its blue-clad protectors came swiftly to the scene. With queers endangering their donut-dipping freedom, we knew they were gonna come down on us hard. Unfortunately for them, the queers knew more about the law than they did and the po were unable to break up the party.

The group pressed on shouting, “Hate tastes like shit! No queer bashers in the Strip!” as onlookers joined in to dance down the Soul Train or take our amazing flyers. Several potential customers of PLLD turned around to find breakfast elsewhere and others went inside to confront Razete about the quotes. Angry about this, Ron threatened to press charges. The cops’ demands to know “Who was inside?” were left unanswered. Nobody talked, everybody walked. After our music CD ended and our flyers were all gone, the group dispersed for the safety of all involved just before Ron could come out and identify anyone.

Introducing…

Bash Back! Concord

The white supremacist newsletter American Renaissance (AmRen) is still holding their 9th annual conference at the Dulles Airport Westin in Herndon, VA ( (703) 793-3366) on Feb 19-21.

Beginning on Monday a campaign to call the Dulles Airport Westin generated so many calls that the hotel appointed someone to deal with all the calls. At the beginning it sounded promising. They promised us that they had no idea what the conference was, they said they were going to cancel the contract with the so-called “New Century Foundation”. By the end of the day many of us had left messages, made complaints, and the Sales Director, David Catalan (sp?), stopped answering his phone and had not returned any of the calls.

When we called on Thursday night they told us that they were not canceling it. They are apparently alright with Nazis meeting in their hotels. Well…if they are going to let that scum stay in their hotels, we aren’t. We tried playing nice, we tried asking, but there is no room for compromise when it comes to fascists trying to organize. The time to ask is over, now we take action.

We are calling on people to call the Westin and not only make your feelings known but also make mention of the fact that you will not be staying at any of their hotels until they cancel this heinous event. The time for talk has ended, now we boycott! If they don’t cancel we will converge on the Westin to confront these white supremacists when they crawl out from under their rocks and try to gather!

Save the Date; February 20 at the the Westin Hotel! We will not let them pass! Antifascism is a matter of community self defense. Racists, fascists, homophobes are all linked in their basic politics, the politics of exclusion. They break apart communities by sowing internal division.

Their entire politics is based on using action against people of other colors, races, religions, sexual orientations, in order to keep people from living as they would like publicly. They force people into closets and corners, forcing people back in to shadows, the very shadows that these fascists hope to make general. Antifascism is not just a matter of hating fascists, it is the very necessity of fighting hate and intolerance in order to make communities strong. What you can do? The Westin Washington Dulles Hotel has not made a decision yet on whether or not they are going to allow the conference to continue. Start calling the hotel, call soon, call often. Boycott! Tell them that you refuse to stay in a hotel that would allow white supremacists, Nazis, and other bigots and fascists to meet in their hotel! Take action! If they refuse to cancel AmRen we will go to the meeting place of these assorted bigots and fascists. The Westin Washington Dulles Hotel February 20 They Will Not Pass! Please contact Westin Washington Dulles Hotel and let them know how you feel.

The phone number is 703-793-3366.

– destroyingthenotionoftheimpossible.wordpress.com

We’re proud to present the fourth issue of Pink and Black Attack, a queer
anarchist periodical based out of Olympia, WA. This is our longest and
best issue yet. It’s also our one year anniversary issue! This issue
features news and action reports, as well as other exciting content.
Notably, this issue features the first part of an English translation of a
Daniel Guérin essay, a story on the Marsha P. Johnson Queer Collective (ala BB! Memphis),
and an expose of 4 American evangelical bigot.

As always, we welcome feedback and submissions.

The issue is online at http://zinelibrary.info/pink-and-black-attack-4

We’re looking to get this issue to as many people as possible, so distros
please get in contact with us!

-Pink and Black Distro
pinkandblackattack@riseup.net

A SINGLE GUNSHOT

CAN NEVER DESTROY

THE BEAUTY OF FASCISM.

12 Feces of Insurrecto-Fascism.

The Insurrecto-Fascists of Milwaukee.

What is Insurrecto-Fascism?

i.

Insurrecto-Fascism, or I.F., is the purist form of Anarchy. To the Insurrecto-Fascist, Anarchism is dead. It died the day much of Bash Back! became a front group for whiney overpriveleged university students. Its bloodied corpse was then desecrated when whitey held an inappropriate jokes workshop (a celebration of racist jokes) at the latest Crimethinc Convergence. Anarchy, however, lives on in the hearts and bowel movements of every Insurrecto-Fascist. In Pittsburgh, Anarchy prevailed when an army of Insurrecto-Fascists crushed Anarcho-Liberalism with a barrage of bricks and a sea of broken glass. [To a WWW forever, my dear]

ii.

Freedom of speech is the arch-nemesis of the Insurrecto-Fascist. By permitting the disgusting “free speech” vomited by anarcho-liberals (see “A Critique of Anarcho PNABism”) we allow ourselves to be caught in a whirlwind of self pity, guilt and premortem decay. Why put up with an incoherent babble on classism by someone who was “radicalized” via the purchase of a $200,000 education? This is not to say that anyone with an education incoherently babbles about subjects in which they have no true understanding. But that most of those who do go on and on in this incoherent babble are products of a Political Science program that most Insurrecto-Fascists could never afford. A society centered on an illusionary free exchange of ideas is nothing more than an enlarged spotlight for those who can foot the bill. Rather than be tolerant of atrocious people and their hetero notions, Insurrecto-Fascists prefer to eliminate them all together.

iii.

True friends are fascist friends. Kinship networks must be annihilated and replaced with strictly controlled Insurrecto-relationships approved only by the party. In Milwaukee, friends show love by expelling hot and steamy dysenterish dumps onto one another. Friendship a la Milwaukee can only mean one thing: laying on your back while a comrade lets loose on your chest. After all, there’s no turd like Midwest turd. That being said and typical of our I.F. beliefs, we tolerate those I.F.-ers who suffer from chronic constipation. We have read about this repressive civilization that our constipated comrades are struggling to destroy. That’s not to say we don’t poke fun at their stuffed up assholes when they slerp down that nasty prune juice.

iv.

Any self-respecting Insurrecto-Fascist eats hot dogs and only hot dogs- raw. Our single source of hydration is a vile mixture of two parts water to one part cigarette ash. The I.F.understands veganism to be not only irrelevant but also an appropriation of Hindu culture by ancient Greek pedophiles. By this logic we conclude that all vegans are suspected pedophiles and members of NAMBLA (the North American Man-Boy Love Association). The Insurrecto-Fascist may also achieve spiritual enlightenment through cannibalism- only after processing the carcass into a hot dog like form, of course. Insurrecto-Fascist spiritual enlightenment occurs after the I.F. consumes the carcass and the spirit is absorbed.

v.

The dignified Insurrecto-Fascist negates all identities but two- that of Insurrecto-Fascist and speciesest. Speciesism, above all isms, is the most beautiful and acceptable way of living. The Insurrecto-Fascist believes them self to be a superior species, and thus all other creatures, especially anarcho liberals, must be ground up and made into hot dogs. A good I.F. looks at the natural world around them and smiles at the potential for all flora and fauna to be taxidermied, burned, or cemented over.

vi.

The Insurrecto-Fascist hates prisoner support. We believe writing letters to prisoners is an abomination akin to laughing at the Jokes of Ellen Degenerous. Its counter revolutionary nature can be demonstrated by “radicals” encouraging comrades to stay in line during political trials, rather than striking a blow to the system responsible for kidnapping our loved ones. Negate prisoner support: there is only attack.

vii.

Unprotected sex is the only type of sex practiced by the proper Insurrecto-Fascist. All seed should be left to fester in the cunts and assholes of the revolution to be later cum farted into the mouths of spunk hungry liberals. For the right price. Dental Dams are for those too weak to have already contracted HPV and gonorrhea. In the end, Cumming without barriers promotes the degradation of the well-kept sphincter of this tasteful society.

viii.

The exhausting routine of brutally enforcing Fascist Insurrection requires Insurrecto-Fascists to sleep at least fifteen hours a day. Despite their vehement hatred for all things Team Edward, exposure to sunlight is frowned upon as it encourages happiness, healthy skin and the perpetuation of life on Earth. Insurrecto-Fascists find cover in the night for clandestine actions. Clandestine actions include but are not limited to: collecting dog feces for throwing, slashing every bike tire in a half mile radius, and last but not least pulling up organic vegetables by the roots and pouring sulfuric acid in their place.

ix.

Our God is David Lochary. We masturbate to him. We pray to him. We fuck while thinking of his bloody death at the hands of a PCP induced plunge into the asphalt below. As did the great Norse Vikings of Morteville; we strive for our final termination to be played out on a violent, gore filled battlefield. We must meet our maker in a foaming PCP frenzy. This is how we honor those who came before. David Lochary through us you shall spread your omnipotent funk.

x.

Thievery is the centerpiece of Midwestern Insurrecto-Fascism. When taking a stroll through any Anarcho-Hipster/Insurrecto-Fascist neighborhood you might hear the popular phrase, “Steal everything and anything. Steal a baby from its mother. Steal a puppy from a baby. Steal some primal strips from the local co-op. Steal. Steal. Steal.” It is not uncommon for hordes of well dressed scatters to parade down a main thoroughfare chanting said phrase. If profit for the sake of wealth is involved; take it. Everything is yours. Everything is ours. Everything is owed to the Party. Everything for every Insurrecto-Fascist. Opulence .

xi.

An Insurrecto-fascist would rather bathe in buckets of menstrual blood and pustulant maggots than attend a single consensus meeting. Groups and organizations that base themselves around a cultish obsession with, “consensus,” quickly become inefficient thereby rendering themselves boring, ugly, and ineffective. It is not atypical for these hyper-consensus groups to become the platform of a select few loud voices pushing a stale agenda. Consensus is as useless as the four hour meetings devoted to hammering out the sentence structure of consensus zines that it produces.It is not atypical for these hyper-consensus groups to become the platform of a select few loud voices. In the end, the tyranny of structurelessness,that is the subtle and informal hierarchies dominating anarcho-liberal culture, serves to reinforces a permanent state of political correctness.

Final Feces

I-F means attack. We aren’t speaking of “attack” in such mundane terms as blocking traffic, dropping banners, or serving lentils in a park. The tactics we propose are thus far only myths on the tongues of so-called radicals everywhere; propositions so vile liberals dare not whisper them for fear of invoking our defiling presence within their pristine movement. I-F does not advocate strategic maneuvering for the upheaval of society; We have no end goals outside of pure obscenity and collective irrationality. What we propose is far more revolting than revolution.

We must wage war against everything, using whatever ammunition is at our disposal. The mainstream media at the RNC may have thought they could shame us by denouncing the act of throwing one’s feces, but they succeeded only in glorifying it as a proper gesture of contempt. Every idiot participating in this world should get hit in the head with our bowel movements. When shit is sailing through the air like shooting stars of dissent, time stops and civilization ceases to exist. It is in the ease of this space that I-F finds beauty, no longer lost in the vacuum of every day life. Our shit is the only accomplice we need.

We have every reason to believe that our air-borne feces will free us from the chains of normalcy slowly gagging us to death. But if, dear reader,you choose to instead follow the dry routines of resistance, taking your dumpsters and newspaper boxes back into clouds of tear gas- then we will warn you only once to take cover, as our waste is given life and reborn unto the world.