The big story for the past 2 months in the Memphis gay “community” and local mainstream media, has been the supposed “anti-gay” vandalizing of an assimilationist gay billboard put up in a poor POC neighborhood outside of downtown Memphis.

The billboard read “I’m gay and I protected your freedom,”  and featured a white, straight-presenting  man in uniform, was put up by the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center and cost an estimated $3500.00 .  The so-called “homophobic vandals” ripped up the billboard, leaving no trace it had ever even been there. Leaving only the pieces of a fabulous Patti Labelle advertisement in its place.

The gay “community” was so “outraged”, of course they had to do something;staged a prayer vigil on National Coming Out Day, to pray for the individual(s) who carried out this “gruesome act of homophobia”, as well as throwing in some veiled racist remarks that hinted that “the black community hates the gay comminity”; as if they are mutually exclusive.

I’m here to dispute the claim that this action was an anti-gay act.

First, sending gays to be military fodder is NOT pro-gay or conclusive whatsoever to gay liberation. State militarism only reinforces the dominant structures, and the racism/heterosexism they perpetuate, as well as reducing the number of gay people in the world (both those in  Amerikkka and the countries Amerikkka is colonizing/conquering).

Second, we accuse the MGLCC of being flat out racist/anti-queer/anti-trans; and we furiously question how that the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center can squander $3500 on military billboards, when Memphis has the highest trans-murder rate (11 trans women of color, 1 white transwoman and 1 transman of color), as well as one of the highest queer youth homeless rates in the nation, and how they can justify putting a pro-military billboard in the overwhelmingly POC neighborhood of Morris Park, when the poor Black community in Morris Park is disporportionately preyed upon by the military (through the court system’s “prison or military service” rule for minor felonies as well as recruiters’ false promises of otherwise impossible economic/education opportunities)?

-Code of Conduct-
International Statement

On Rumors Gossip, Lies, and Snitch-Jacketing of Native Warriorz

“There are a lot of people in Indian Country claiming to know this or that about someone else. Ask for proof, if you’re going to consider their words. All the rumor mongers have scenarios they’ve come up with too, in essence set a trap for anyone willing to listen.”

-Leonard Peltier

Warriorz continue to be targeted and attacked Internet Gangsters, and Two Faced Drunk Envious wannabe warriorz a combination that the enemy loves to see at work, because of the disruption and confusion it creates within a Movement and its support network. Our code of conduct is and always will be:

No Hear Say. Do not believe anything said about another person if the other person is not there to defend themselves. Only take face-to-face communication and direct contact with those involved as real and true. All Rumors and Gossip should be seen as fake or questionable and should not be acted upon before face-to-face communication is established. The Last Generation acted too much on emotion and false egotistical pride, and it got many killed and locked up, and led to the dismantling of the resistance & organization of their day. We will not repeat this.

This is something that NYM Warriorz know, but the rest of the world of supporters may not. Everybody attempting to take on the Enemy of the Earth and all Life should Live and abide by this simple rule. If people do not adhere to this, then we cannot work together in any form or fashion. When somebody tells you a rumor or is trying to spread a rumor about someone else, Do Not Say “For Real”, and then go tell everyone you know, in a Resistance Movement you say “Who said that? How do you know? Prove it,!” and finally “Don’t talk about them when they’re not here”.

Don’t accept everything you hear or read as fact, always check the source before you act. Personal communication between True members can severely limit and in many cases eliminate the enemies Smear Operation. Do not spread harmful rumors about others, avoid all gossip about others, especially over telecommunications, computers, and all technology. Face-to Face contact iz the only way. Unless there is strong evidence, public accusations, and denouncements can cause more damage than good. In most cases they end up to be either overly Paranoid, Personal attacks/rivalry, or just plain Pigz & Haters, with no hard evidence.

Snitch-Jacket or bad-jacket- When a genuine movement member is portrayed as being an Informant (thief, rapist, etc.) Often other informants are used to spread rumors, plant evidence etc. Police themselves will often gossip or leave evidence indicating a person is an informant.

The purpose of snitch/bad-Jacketing is to neutralize the targeted individual as an effective organizer. This causes mistrust with potential Alliances and Supporters.

What the Original Guerrillas (OGz) Say

“…My father once told me that our greatest weakness have always been booze, flattery and jealousy. If you look closely, you will find one or more of these at the foundation of the finger pointing. Growing up, I always heard my people say, ‘Ignore people’s misstatements about you and live your life so that all can see your true character.”

“With today’s technology of media, it has been found through surveys, that a statement, whether it is true or not, is taken for truth if not countered within a 24 hour period. As the old saying goes, ‘A lie will travel the world, while the truth is just putting its boots on. I have been in prison 27 years (31 now) because of lies about myself, my people and my culture so I am sensitive to those who would make quick judgments without knowing the facts of a case. Notice I say ‘Knowing’, not ‘believing’.”

-Leonard Peltier Statement following arrest of John Graham 2003

Actions speak louder than words

“I encourage all who come in contact with this finger pointing behavior to also look at the person pointing the finger”

-Leonard Peltier

NYM has many Warrior Societies and Indian People that are part of it, in many regions, there are also supporters to the Struggle on the Land, and behind that is the ‘hang-arounds’, those who jump on the bandwagon when it is popular. The hang around element is usually the ones with no Principles (either because of lack experience/education, or lack of heart and purpose). The hang-arounds must begin to follow basic principles and not be hang-arounds anymore. Everyone can do something for the Movement, or go and hang around the Pigz or in the Fort. Those who spread Illegitimate rumors and Lies about Proven Warriorz, and anybody in general must be kept at a distance. In a place where warriors are Fighting the Olympics and the Survival of Red People and the Earth, those Hang-Arounds have a lot of Nerve and Ignorance to even talk about real Combatants, when they never been involved in any Warrior activities or operations & still make no effort to take part in any organized body of resistance. Drinking is also a main ‘hobby’ of these hang-arounds, something NYM Warriorz agreed never to touch; it is the piss from the white man.

NYM Warrior Societies live by Principles and Codes of Honor, Respect, and work everyday towards the Future and Survival. Either building, Harvesting and preserving food, training, gathering supplies for future, teaching the young ones, having babies Free of the System, educating the People, Learning Languages, tanning hides, Ceremonies, and other Warrior Operations. Look at how those who spread accusations and rumors live their lives, how are their kids?, their health?, are they self-sufficient?, if the lights went out would they know where to go?, if the stores are empty do they have food?, do they have honor?, do they have clean water to offer their children? do they fight the enemy with all their Mind, Heart, Body and Spirit?, the Earth is still being destroyed, and We are still alive, the War is not over, it’s just most do not have the courage to fight the real enemy, only their own People.

Native Youth Movement Un-Plugged

“The Red Pill or the Blue Pill”

-Morphias, Matrix

NYM is a Native Movement for and by Native People, and Young People in Particular. Only Native People can be NYM. All members of NYM are Native. Mixed-Bloods are a product of Colonization, they have blood from this Land, and not only have a right to Fight for it, and be NYM, they have a Duty, the same as any other Person with Ancestors who Bleed, Fought, Suffered and Died to continue Red Life. We do not care if blood has been mixed as a result of the white-man, we care if actions are mixed, if you say you’re a Proud Native but continue to live white way of life with no purpose other than money and greed, never thinking about the Future.

We say NO to self-termination, Love Native, Marry Native, do not let yourself be drowned in the melting pot, if you were born in it, jump out and Find your Warrior Spirit, and Warrior Spouse. We do Not recognize any White man borders or countries, all who have Ancestors from North, South, Central, or Caribbean areas of the Western Hemisphere have a choice to make, to uphold their Responsibilities & Defend the Earth (Red Pill), or Ignore them and live and die with the fake man-made system (Blue Pill). All Natives are Sworn to Protect the Earth the day we are Born.

Many NYM Warriorz have Un-Plugged. Those who have made the choice to live with No I.D., No Credit cards, no papers, or white man’s job, no hospital visits, no courts, and move back to the Land, they live Life on the Run, but more Free than anybody in any City, or Rez. Remember the big picture, the city is only there temporarily, to get the resources and be gone. One day very soon all will have to Un-Plug from the Shit-stem or not Survive.

The Internet has been denounced by many traditional People and most Indigenous people who live on the Land do not use it. But now many overstand it will only be here for a short time and its only purpose is to spread Information and education about each others struggles. Not to spread gossip, or talk about plans, or any unnecessary small talk.. Keep it Simple, and Keep it Real.

Everything Warriors do or recall to the people, War Stories and Accusations alike, are done in front of witnesses, this is how confusion is avoided, and truth comes out. The internet and rumors are the exact opposite, they are sneaky and deceitful with no one around to defend themselves. There is a difference between constructive criticism and gossip. Remember real Warrior ways, learn from the mistakes of those in the past, we have been Resisting the Enemy for 515 years, their objectives to have complete control will never change, a key strategy to control our emotions and feelings remains Lies, and Gossip, Divide and Conquer. Always be observant and look when dis-unity occurs, and when potentially good things go bad over words, that are usually lies, always find the source.

Fortunately those who continue to live unprincipled lives with lack of direction and purpose will be sitting on the gossip chat line, or at the café, getting high off caffeine, nicotine, and sugar, ‘chatting and gossiping with Warriorz names loosely leaving their lips and fingertips, when the Great Hurricane or Tsunami will take them out of this world for eternity.

When that time comes who was talking shit will not matter, talking shit means you’re not doing shit, wake up before it’s too late! Since the First Taino Warriorz crushed the Invading Spaniards Skull we’ve been Resisting, and 515 Years Later we won’t Stop! We Won’t Stop till we win! It’s 515! See you in 2010! Nos Vemos en 2010!

Unity with Mapuche Warrior Arrested in Chile and all Mapuche Prisoners of War! Free the Warriorz of Oaxaca and Atenco! Freedom to all Native and African Prisoners of War! Warriorz Unite! Stop the extradition of John Graham! Free Leonard Peltier! Stop Drinkin! Stop Snitchin! Stop Gossiping! Cancel the 2010 Olympics! Pray for Rain! Do not believe hear say! Take Back Our Land! Long Live the Zapatistas! NYM RED POWER!

In the last issue of the icky hipster rag, “Vice Magazine,” Queer film director and legend Bruce La Bruce wrote an editorial calling out “Uncle Tom Fags” “Straights” and Gay twentysomething hipsters that read Vice. Considering the recent drama between queer anarchists, non queer anarchists, and those negating their identity; we thought this article was fitting to post. It should be noted that much of this article is based in humor. We hope that you will be smart enough to separate the camp from reality.  May this bring more to our discussion.

Film still from LaBruce’s movie Skin Flick. Courtesy peres projects, Los Angeles.

I Hate Straights – Bash Back, Fags.

Forget about fag bashing. It’s time for a little equal opportunity straight bashing. When I was a sissy homo punk in the 80s, big macho het boys with foot-tall Mohawks and Crass jackets, conveniently setting their radical, anarcho-leftist leanings aside for a moment, would punch me in the nose for showing queer super-8 movies in punk venues. Their avowed neo-Nazi skinhead enemies at the same show, now united in homo hatred, would run over and spit on me in solidarity. My punk dyke friends would form a human shield, but the damage was already done. From that point on, I would dedicate much of my work to pushing overt homosexuality into the faces of heterosexuals, both virulent homophobes and liberal bleeding hearts alike.

It’s the femmie homosexual people can’t stand the most, especially if he’s sexually aggressive and unapologetic about it, so that’s the image we set out to promote. We used to refer to heterosexuals as breeders back then. Child-hating W. C. Fields was our idol, and we loved Roman Polanski in The Tenant—you know, the part where, dressed in drag, he walks over to a little boy in a park and slaps him across the face for no reason. Why do people who breed think they’re so special, we puzzled, bringing a kid into this overpopulated, war-ravaged world, desperately trying to grasp onto some pathetic shard of immortality? In the sage words of Kim and Kelley Deal (of the Breeders, no less), “If you’re so special, why aren’t you dead?”

At my university there was a group called the League Against Homosexuals. Their motto, spread on leaflets across campus, was “Queers don’t produce, they seduce.” I adopted their credo as my own in the most public way possible. But today, twentysomething homosexuals, especially the ones who read Vice, think it’s cool to be discreet about their faggotry, to act as if it doesn’t have any effect on the rest of their lives or anyone else’s. We used to call that “the closet.”

So, queer bashing is still necessary. (Somebody should take the “Fag Five” of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy out into a back alley and hospitalize them for promoting the image of gays as materialistic breeder-lovers.) But how about a little straight bashing, too? I think everyone needs a good beating. Uncle Tom fags need it. Straight-acting fags and straights alike need it. Bash them all. Anyone who is complicit in the user-friendly fag trend should have their knees broken. The only people I don’t feel like bashing lately are mincing queens and actual fag bashers.

The next time you see a hetero couple holding hands, run over and yell “Herpes-carrying breeder” at them and punch them in the nose. You’ll feel better for it. Join the homosexual intifada.

BRUCE LaBRUCE
Go to brucelabruce.com and buy a T-shirt or something, OK?

Dear Diary,

My, how this month has flown by! I have been so busy bringing the queer insurrection; I’ve hardly had time to write everything down. Where to begin…

When the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) held its annual Gala Dinner and Silent Auction Saturday, Sept, 12th, autonomous queerz Bash Back: Twin Cities, The Revolting Queers, and the Twin Cities Avengers were there to welcome them even though we had not been invited and had no intention of paying the $200 entrance fee.

This year’s Gala was themed “Speak the Truth”, a truth which congratulated rich gay celebrities and gave them expensive “visibility” awards, while Duanna Johnson, Leeneshia Edwards, Tiffany Berry, & the thousands of other murdered transwomen didn’t even receive an honorable mention…

It was clear from the bourgeois atmosphere, and the serious lack of dancing that this Gala was meant to be some sort of overpriced support group for whiney elite gays and lesbians, to express their dreams of a bigger prison industrial complex (hate crime legislation), heteronormativity (gay marriage), and more state militarism (don’t ask, don’t tell).

But Bash Back! Twin Cities, was fed up with the ridiculous state-lovin’ of the HRC lobby and its distance from our own lived realities, so we decided to do what all rich queerz do in a time of crisis; we got gay married! The Gala had been billed as a “festive, all styles welcome event” so we dressed in our hottest wedding attire and stormed into the dinner.

Despite heckling from HRC security, we stood our ground and held a brief marriage ceremony and handed out leaflets inside. Before the HRC corporate hacks could push us out the door we were able to read the following vows:

“Do you, Bash Back! Twin Cities, take one another to be insurrectionary radical queerz, to resist and to liberate ourselves from all systems of domination, for glitter and for cupcakes, for unicorns and for rainbows, in genderless bathrooms and in the streets, in love and in rage, from this dance party forward?”

“We do!” We held our wedding reception dance party outside and consumed our marital cupcakes to the beats of Janet Jackson, Cher and Lady Gaga. We look forward to the HRC inviting us to its annual Gala next year for our one year anniversary.

On October 11th we glamdalized a bridge the night before it was used for a local “equality” rally in conjunction with the National March for Equality in DC. The bridge was beautified with phrases such as “Liberation Not State Sanction – No To Heteronormative Assimilation”. During the rally, we attached a banner to the bridge that read simply “Liberation not Assimilation!” This action was not only meant to disrupt the complacent rally for (rich, white, homonormative) gay and lesbian “rights” but to also coincide with National Coming Out Day.

Bash Back! Twin Cities resists National Coming Out Day because it is reformist and forces the production of gender-deviant subjects into rigid identity categories that do not disrupt the regime of white heteronormativity. BB! Twin Cities asks the questions “Who gets to ‘come out’ and “why are there so few identity choices when you do”? BB! Twin Cities rejects the idea that your sexual practices equals your sexual identity and asserts that any group that thinks this is true needs to check its cultural privilege. We disagree with mainstream LGBT movements in general because they reinstate systems of domination through their state-sponsored tactics and politics and frankly their inefficiency to yield material change is simultaneously enraging and a snooze cruise.

On Saturday October 17th, Bash Back! Twin Cities organized a radical queer bloc to confront a racist neo-Nazi rally in Austin, a small town in Southeastern Minnesota. Aside from making the counter-demonstration more fierce and fabulous, the National Socialist Movement Twin Cities Unit Leader Corporal Erik Flann was successfully glamified with a green glitter bomb on their disgusting Nazi uniform.

While one of the Nazis hit a demonstrator’s hand and broke their camera and another showed up to the rally with a stun gun, baton, and body armor – not surprisingly – the police were only interested in going after counter-demonstrators while protecting the Nazi scum.

The police indiscriminately pepper-sprayed the crowd a few times and made three arrests. The first person arrested was an Austin local who tripped over the Nazi’s loud-speaker while the crowd was trying to move forward. The second, was a Bash Back! member who police allege threw a glitter bomb at Eric. The third, was a Bash Back! member, and was arrested for simply telling police that he was not a “ma’am”, that he was a transboy, when an officer asked him to “Get back ma’am”.

The two Bash Back! members arrested were charged with disorderly conduct, unlawful assembly, and obstruction of legal process. We need your help to raise money to cover their legal expenses. Please check out the support website we set up at: http://bashbacklegal.weebly.com/.

Love and Rage,
Bash Back! Twin Cities

PS:

(Our new base of operations, the Tranny Shop in Austin, MN.)

On September 24^th some of the most militant politicized street protests the States have seen in nearly a decade countered the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. Anarchist Queers and Trannies were on the frontlines of this struggle; bringing the numbers, the flare, and the wrecking crews. Radical Queers fought police and did everything they could, with what they had, not to back down. A days worth of tear gas, rubber bullet attacks, and fending off straight-idiot-liberals, set the tone for what would be a night of ravenous Queer revenge.  A single march of 200+ Queers, Trannies, Womyn, POC, and some allies bashed the fuck back; causing the most property destruction contained to a single neighborhood in Pittsburgh during the protests. So other Anarchists, why the fuck are you ignoring us?

What Happened in Oakland on Thursday Night?

A week prior to the G20 protests Bash Back! Pittsburgh, a radical Trans and Queer Liberation group, called for a Queer Cabaret to be followed by a march through Oakland. Oakland has long been a neighborhood unfriendly to anyone not fitting into the straight-white-male category. By 10pm on the 24th nearly 200 people gathered outside of the Queer Cabaret. The mood was set. There were no illusions. Everyone knew what was about to happen. It seemed that people were unified in their goal to terrorize straighty. Windows were smashed, dumpsters flipped and ignited, a frat boy homophobe and his friends were dealt with properly, and the vast majority of participants left feeling empowered and energized.

However, despite the fact that this march was called for by a local radical queer/trans group, took place immediately following a Queer Cabaret, was executed largely by radical Trans/Queer people and was lead by a banner reading, “Bash Back!” ;  most of the reportbacks describing the march include NONE of these important details. In all fairness Crimethinc did state that the march had been, “Bash Back!” themed. Whatever that means. In the documentary, “Democracy 101: Pittsburgh G20 Protests and the Police Occupation of Pitt University,” produced by Pittsburgh Indymedia, Chicago Indymedia, Twin Cities Indymedia, and the Glassbead Collective footage of the Radical Queer black bloc was preceded by the sentence, “The protestors dispersed in the late afternoon, but they reconvened later in the evening.” This makes it seem as if the Radical Queer black bloc later in the night was merely an extension of the People’s Uprising March that took place across town earlier in the day. It was not.  We found it even more frustrating that not even a brief mention of the radical Queer/Trans organization that went into the march was included in the documentary. A person from Pittsburgh even went as far as to say that the march was not queer. Does this mean that in order for militant actions to be recognized by the broader Anarchist community as Queer all of the participants have to be laced in sequins and throwing glitter?

This is not an isolated incident!

Radical Queers made up a large number of people putting hours of work into creating a militant showdown at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. People with Bash Back! held multiple consultas in the Midwest and on the East Coast to carve out a radical Queer space in countering the Convention. Bash Back! sent queers to Minneapolis well over a month before the Convention to help with the organizing effort. However, in spokescouncils and personal conversations the Bash Back! action was more often than not labeled as one of the “fluffy” actions, while actions with similar tones were never labeled soft or fluffy.  “ Terrorizing Dissent,” a documentary created by Twin Cities Indymedia about the RNC completely ignored the Bash Back! action, which was the first publicly announced blockade in the lead up to the RNC. Footage of the radical Queer blockade never made the final cut. In fact, the action was not discussed or even referenced. However,  footage of the Funk the War bloc, a roving dance party called for by Students for a Democratic Society was featured in a nauseatingly long segment. Let us remind you that Radical Queers put over a year into organizing our event and Bash Back! is the ONLY national network that has maintained itself since the failure of the RNC protests.

Another incident that comes to mind is a recent incident involving the arrest of Ariel Attack. Ariel is a Trans/Queer person who has been involved in radical organizing for sometime. Earlier in the year Ariel was picked up by Denver Police and accused of smashing 11 windows out of the Colorado Democratic Party Headquarters. Rather than write their own article, AnarchistNews.org reposted an article from an extremely right-wing blog riddled with anti-Trans rhetoric. Although there were literally thousands of other news articles about the sabotage Anarchist News chose to run the disgustingly anti-Trans right wing one. Even after being asked and eventually threatened the mysterious people behind AnarchistNews.org refused to replace the article with a better one. They cited Freedom of Speech in defense of their actions. To this all we can say is…Really? Other non-trans radicals went on to question the timing and message of the action. Would anyone of you Cisgendered white dudes be questioning the timing and message of the action if the person arrested for allegedly smashing the windows was a white male Earth First!er ? Our conclusion is: probably not.

So What the Fuck?

First we were Maoists. Then we were fluffy. Then we were not living up to our militant rhetoric. Now, at best you are ignoring our actions and the massive risks we are taking to carry them out. At worst you are  co-opting what we do and rewriting history to claim our struggles as your own.

Are you neglecting to mention what we have done so you can maintain that our actions are Manarchist? It is clearly absurd to call militancy carried out by Womyn, Transfolk, People of Color, and Queers “Manarchist.” Instead, you will just pretend that these actions were taken by straight white dudes.

-OR-

Are you refusing to give Radical Queers credit because you couldn’t give a fuck? Maybe you just don’t care that radical Trans people and Queers are finally, after more than a decade on hiatus, building a culture centered around fighting back.

–OR-

Are you living in a delusion? You are so far from reality that you still hold on to the idea that Queers, Trannies, POC and Womyn are at too high of risk to ever be taking these actions. So you pretend that you, the white-straight person, did the legwork and threw down.

–AND/OR-

You feel, as our self-appointed protector, you must act as if Trannies/Queers haven’t taken these actions in an effort to avoid the state coming down on us.

-OR-

Are you not mentioning our actions because you feel ignorant as fuck when,  the actual radicals and actual queers, prove you wrong time and time again? You might feel a bit put off that we are doing more to resist than you ever have and our actions are insanely more effective, fabulous, and daring than yall’s could ever be.

-OR-

When it comes down to it , do you think that we are just a bunch of fags too concerned with identity politics to ever contribute to a broad social upheaval? Even though, as pointed out before, in the last two years Radical Queers have taken the lead in the push for a more direct action oriented resistance.

In Conclusion

It really is a shame that  a band of radical Queers, involved with a variety of Anarchist organizing projects for many years, has had to use a public forum to call you all out.  But nevertheless we feel we have to. It has become apparent to us that while many of you are our friends you still hold yourself on a higher pedestal because you are straight and we are not. You have mocked us, written us off and criticized us, when frankly you are in no place to do so. We are not trying to create divisions on tactical grounds, excluding our struggle to root out Anarcho- Liberals. Instead we are calling you out on your shit so we can all continue on this path toward insurrection and most importantly liberation. To those of you who will ignore these concerns we impolitely order you to stop breeding like goddamn rabbits and find the nearest cliff to jump from.

APOC MKE SUMMIT 11/14 – 11/15 2009

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In September 2009, Madison APOC made its grand entrance into the world with an action against David Carter, a self-proclaimed historian who denies any significant participation of trans folk and people of color in Stonewall. He also frames the queer liberation movement in the U.S. as a gay white man’s movement, not to mention he shit-talks Sylvia and Marsha to no end… (feel free to Google his name and read the transcripts of his speeches.) The University of Wisconsin-Madison had invited Carter to speak on campus, and as the room started to fill with white intellectuals and college students, madAPOC got into position and…

“Trans, women, POC– you can’t write us out of history!”

Original Video – More videos at TinyPic

Copies of a communique were thrown into the air and scattered across the lecture room. It read:

We are a group of autonomous individuals collectively known as APOC (Anarchist / Autonomous / Anti-Authoritarian People of Color). We are not affiliated with any other local groups or organizations. We strive to smash every form of oppression, including white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, heterosexism, speciesism, transphobia, queerphobia, environmental racism, ageism, classism and authoritarianism. This is our response to this fake historian’s “interpretation” of history.

The Stonewall uprising was a series of actions by queer and transfolk, both whites and people of color. The queer and trans population of Greenwich Village acted boldly to defend themselves against police brutality in their own neighborhood.

We are disgusted by David Carter’s blatant racism and transphobia. Transfolk, women, and people of color have been crucial to not only the Stonewall uprising, but also to the bigger struggle for queer and trans liberation. With his interpretation, Carter has attempted to write us out of our own history. If he takes it upon himself to talk about a movement, he should be held accountable for getting that shit right. Queer insurrection is not only for white males, and we are here to make sure he doesn’t forget it.

David Carter, we hope you get what you deserve.

Love, APOC

Smack em all, let’s spread the Madness. WE’LL SEE YOU IN MILWAUKEE!

We are currently collecting money to cover court fees and bail money for
the two Bash Back! folks who were arrested for confronting Nazis in
Austin, Minnesota.

The duo are facing relatively minor charges, and with the help of the
radical queer community, we know we can raise the expected $800 in court
costs for them.

If they win or if they have any leftover funds the money will be split
equally between the Ariel Attack (Denver) & You Are Jessie Doe (Lansing)
defense fund.

To donate please visit;

http://bashbacklegal.weebly.com/

Repost from Twin Cities Indymedia
http://twincities.indymedia.org/2009/oct/white-supremacists-versus-community-austin-and-twin-cities-activists-confront-nsm

Austin, Minnesota–Twin Cities and Austin anti-racists joined forces Saturday afternoon in this southern Minnesota town of 25,000 to confront the same four neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement members who tried to protest a Minneapolis “Confronting White Supremacy” workshop last month. The crowd of about 50 at the Mower County Veteran’s Memorial – on the lawn of the local law enforcement center – boisterously drowned out the Nazis with their chants, and a few rotten vegetables and glitter bombs were hurled in their direction. Several Austin veterans passing by the demonstration heckled the Nazis with cries of “bald-headed assholes.”

Soon, however – seemingly without direct provocation – Austin city police and Mower County Sheriff’s deputies sprayed mace and charged the crowd, arresting three of the anti-racists protesters. Moments earlier, the police had done nothing when one of the Nazis broke a demonstrator’s phone by swatting it to the ground.

About half an hour later, police suggested to the Nazis that they leave, then escorted them inside the law enforcement center, presumably to be accompanied to their car at a later time. All three of the arrestees – two from the Bash Back! Twin Cities and one from Austin – were quickly released; at least two were charged with unlawful assembly and obstruction of property, both misdemeanors.

Despite their claims of neutrality, police officers’ actions led many to the conclusion they sided with the neo-Nazis. Also stirring controversy was the presence of the Minnesota Peace Team, an organization which sends members to act as self-proclaimed peacekeepers but which some demonstrators felt escalated the conflict.

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