It had 218,000 views as of 10/31/2022. At that point it is unavoidable. Learn how your comment data is processed. Members of the Antifa group John Brown Gun Club have started a GoFundMe after having their weapons stolen at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). Formed in 2017, the Rhode Island John Brown Gun Club is a leftist working class community defense organization based in and serving the communities of Rhode Island. However, it should be noted that the Dallas Voice in their article called them the Elm Fork John Brown Club, omitting the word Gun from their name. * PSJBGC at the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair 2019!, Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, November 16, 2019, https://psjbgc.org/blog/psjbgc-at-the-seattle-anarchist-bookfair-2019/; See Us Today at Debbie Bookchin's Speaking Tour!, Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, November 2, 2019, https://psjbgc.org/blog/see-us-today-at-debbie-bookchin-s-speaking-tour/. Back to the story about the Dallas Voice. John Brown Gun Club. Counterextremism.com. Redneck Revolt is a national network of community defense projects from a broad spread of political, religious, and cultural backgrounds. *John Browns Mountaineer Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed August 31, 2022, https://twitter.com/mountaineer_gc.x, Rightwing political candidates and pundits, as well as those on the far-right, blame groups like the John Brown Gun Club, Redneck Revolt, and Antifa for organizing riots and other violent protests against police and municipal authorities while promoting anarchy and societal breakdowns. I don't want to call out specific groups and create drama; but the one in the county south of us turned into an SRA chapter and the one to the north of us has banned any interactions with the SRA. The group has frequently been invited to demonstrations to serve as security against rightwing aggression by other left-wing protestors. We see this as part of our work, because this revolution is happening everywhere, every day, in every act of solidarity with our ever-intertwined communities. Steel City John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed July 26, 2022. Armed Insurrectionary Anti-Racism [T]he Redneck Revolt model of Libertarian Socialism reveals important things, and should be an important part of the U.S. Left. We hope to never need to act on that capacity, and we train so we wont miss if we have to., DMV John Brown Gun Club, tweet, July 18, 2022: Fuck Jason Bagshaw. But it might have been careless editing. [29] On June 23, armed members of Redneck Revolt attended a protest in Kalkaska, Michigan, in response to anti-Muslim comments made by Jeff Sieting, the village president. *David Weigel, On the campaign trail, many Republicans talk of violence, Washington Post, July 23, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/24/republicans-civil-war-midterms/.x In November 2020, counterinsurgency and military strategy expert David Kilcullen told Salon that while groups such as Redneck Revolt and the John Brown Gun Club claim to be defensive and seek to protect people on the streets from violence, the fear they evoke can also be a trigger for violence. Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, tweet, August 21, 2022: Without cops, who would ignore heinous crimes and harass minorities?, Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, tweet, August 21, 2022: Its a great day for @AFLCIO to recognize cops are the enemies of labor., Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, tweet, August 18, 2022: Police are a danger to the community. x The Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club in Washington state was founded in 2017 as part of the Redneck Revolt Network and broke away from Redneck Revolt in 2019. We dont refer here to the constitutional right to bear arms: we are anti-state and do not align ethically with the U.S. Constitution. did start reporting where they mention the Elm Fork John Club in this Sept. 2, 2022 article. We are teachers, loggers, artists, and farmers. It wont be a complete list, but it will show why solidarity is key., Willem Van Spronsen, final statement, July 2019: Fascism serves the needs of the state serves the needs of business and at your expense. [1][17] Later in April, members hosted a barbecue in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where Trump was marking his 100th day in office. Mawa Iqbal, Left-Wing Groups Take Up Arms in Name of Abolitionist John Brown, Flatland, July 23, 2020. https://dallasvoice.com/protesters-hit-the-strip/. Join the #1 community for gun owners of the Southwest. After pointing his rifle at four officers and refusing to drop his gun, the officers opened fire on Van Spronsen. [1], 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". Its political positions are anti-capitalist, anti-racist and anti-fascist. https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/facebook-bans-antifascist-pages/. Here they are reporting on the attack on Plano Pride. WebThe Rhode Island John Brown Gun Club. Ignatiev argued that "in this society those who share our material conditions, our neighbors, our family members, our friends, the people working alongside us, usually reflect which race they (and we) are assigned to" and contended that "[t]he goal is not to defend the white community but to abolish it, and along with it all communities defined by racial preference or oppression". WebAs the nationwide network of Redneck Revolt and John Brown Gun Club branches continues to grow, we are working hard to ensure each branch has training, resources, outreach materials, and the ability to help arm and outfit other liberatory community defense projects in We will bash back.. [12], The group does not identify itself as part of the political left,[21] nor as politically liberal. [12][17] They advance a critique of white supremacy which they describe as "a system of violence and power that ensures that political, economic, and social power is withheld from people who aren't white". WebThe group supports gun rights and members often openly carry firearms. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/tacoma-ice-shooting; https://psjbgc.org/blog/rest-in-power-will-one-year-later/. [1] The geographer Levi van Sant has argued that the group's ideology is a form of libertarian socialism. WebThe Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club ( PSJBGC) is a Puget Sound Area gun club, formerly affiliated with Redneck Revolt. Each local is unique, for better or worse. [24] The group's membership grew during the 2016 presidential election[8] and following the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. UPDATE: Their twitter account has been suspended. While the CHAZ has instituted its own form of unelected security throughout the area, the John Brown Gun Club has been one of the groups to spearhead the effort. Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club @EFJBGC Armed antifascists were met by cheers and were joined in marching by random patrons of the Gayborhoods famous Strip, which had been targeted by over 50 violent self-described Christian Fascists led by John Doyle and Kelly Neidert just three weeks before. [6], The group attributes their use of the word "redneck" to the time of the Coal Wars, a series of labor disputes in the United States occurring from around 1890 to around 1930, when the word became popular among coal-miners. We will not go back. [30][31], In August 2017, members participated in protests against Trump's speech in Phoenix, Arizona. [1][4][5][6] Founding member Dave Strano was previously part of the Kansas Mutual Aid Network which was involved in organizing protests against the Republican National Convention in 2004, in relation to which he and others began to train with firearms and engage in Second Amendment advocacy. It is affiliated with the Pittsburgh Union of Regional Renters and PGH Mutual Aid and fundraises with them. A seriously significant group has become an agent in the ongoing struggle about drag shows and the Dallas Voice hasnt interviewed them or reported on them. A lot of times you can find it at the Internet Archive. About Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club Helping marginalized communities in organizing community defense against white supremacists / fascism. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/redneck-revolt-guns-anti-racism-fascism-far-left. is sympathetic to the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club. On Friday, Paris criminal court found 3 men guilty of conspiring to prepare an act of terrorism against French Pres https://t.co/SNjBGUPlrm, The death toll in the ambush on a military patrol on Friday has reached at least 51. Members of the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club hold a memorial service for van Spronsen a year after his death. July 13, 2019: 69-year-old Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club member Willem Van Spronsen snuck into the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements Northwest Detention Center facility in Tacoma, Washington, with a rifle. [41] The lawsuit identified Redneck Revolt and the Socialist Rifle Association, an anti-fascist group that defends working-class people's right to bear arms, as "private militia groups [that] helped create and secure a staging area for counter-protestors". It is a pro-worker, anti-racist organization that focuses on working class liberation from the oppressive systems which dominate our lives. It provides armed security to left-wing protestors and trains other leftist groups in Nazis Go to East Palestine Ohio to Exploit the Railroad Disaster, Bullsh*t on Parade: Fake Anti-War Rally a Flop, but Neo-Nazis were Fine with That, Portrait of a Punkass: How Joey Gibson Settled an Antifascist Lawsuit & Told the World He is a Damned Liar. The phrase #WeKeepUsSafe is a rallying cry of community self-defense but also an acknowledgment of the terrors and ineptitude of the systems of power designed to control and not protect us., Cedar Breaks John Brown Gun Club, tweet, August 28, 2021: Fuck the pigs and give people money is the only acceptable political position., Spokane John Brown Gun Club, tweet, August 29, 2020: If there is a standoff against the cops, stick together to form a cohesive front. [50] Gabriel Kuhn responded to Ignatiev in a 2018 article. Accessed November 7, 2022. The Elm Fork John Brown Club twitter has shown ongoing engagement in opposing Kelly Neiderts campaign of attacking drag shows. We need to be ready to rapidly respond to the armed right wing threat that menaces our communities. [3], The original John Brown Gun Club grew out of the Kansas Mutual Aid Collective in Lawrence, Kansas. [6][7] In the early 2000s, John Brown Gun Club members operated anti-racist stalls at gun shows in Kansas. 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