Van Sponsen was killed by Washington State Police. We're tackling a specific problem, which is white supremacy, which we find to be built into capitalism". 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. Although the fash looked and acted ridiculous; its important to expose the extreme violence and threats the community was attacked with on that day. The following probably frightens the Dallas Voices advertisers. Denton police are allowing the uniformed militia Texas Defense Force to take control of the government building where Christian Fascist Kelly Neidert is speaking. We will bash back.. [13][14][20] Redneck Revolt supports the rights of Muslims, immigrants and LGBT people and is opposed to economic inequality. "[22], "John Brown Gun Club" redirects here. * Kim Kelly, If others have rifles, well have rifles: why US leftist groups are taking up arms, Guardian (London), July 22, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/22/if-others-have-rifles-well-have-rifles-why-leftist-groups-are-taking-up-arms.x New John Brown Gun Club chapters continue to emerge across the country. https://www.redneckrevolt.org/single-post/2016/07/28/WHITE-WORKERS-RESISTING-CAPITALISM-AND-WHITE-SUPREMACY-AN-INTERVIEW-WITH-REDNECK-REVOLT. Just like Miramar. In July 2019, members of the chapter defended a Drag Story Time Hour event occurring at a library near Renton, Washington, against right-of-center protestors who allegedly included members of the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters. x, The John Brown Gun Club chapters act independently and have no formal hierarchy. [11] Administrative and communications activities are divided equally along lines of gender. 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. This event is to publicly denounce the Klan, their beliefs, and show that we will not back down". Keep informed on what the Dallas Voice wont or cant report. [25] Members often view the practice of openly carrying guns as a political statement that intimidates opponents and affirms gun rights. At that point it is unavoidable. WebDonate to the John Brown Solidarity Fund, to support anti-fascist community defense groups nationwide. According to that group, the John Brown Gun Club seeks to disrupt fascists and fascist organizations and events. 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 [9] They also do not consider themselves an antifa group. To reach the Green Mountain John Brown Club, email them here. https://dallasvoice.com/drag-in-the-suburbs/. Its no surprise the defense industry is full of fascists, but the fact theyre not hiding it anymore tells us they believe this is good marketing. 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. [14] Also in June, members were part of a protest against the Christian conservative organization Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which coincided with a speech by Mike Pence to celebrate the group's fortieth anniversary. https://twitter.com/SPKJBGC/status/1292235389458173957. The original club sought to militarize the white working class and spur it toward a social-justice revolution. Accessed November 7, 2022. Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club is still fighting anti-drag show protesters. * Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed September 1, 2020, https://twitter.com/PugetSoundJBGC. The Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club changes positions to the start of the Trans Pride March near Cal Anderson Park in Seattle, Washington, on 28 June 2019. 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". [27] Activities around racial justice and transgender rights are predominantly oriented toward rural white people, while firearms training events are oriented toward women and people of color. While Protect Texas Kids has been allowed back on twitter. It is a pro-worker, anti-racist organization that focuses on working class liberation from the oppressive systems which dominate our lives. [22] In a September 2017 interview, a member said that the group was exploring ways to respond to health care challenges and food shortages. 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). So some of these tweets will have broken links. WebJohn Brown Gun Club/Redneck Revolt. is sympathetic to the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club. Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Betsy de Vos, George Soros, Donald Trump, and need I go on? 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. Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed August 31, 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/22/if-others-have-rifles-well-have-rifles-why-leftist-groups-are-taking-up-arms. [9], The group argues that the white working-class have more in common with working-class people of color than with the wealthy. WebJohn Brown Brigades. Hundreds rallied to demand police accountability and we were there promoting community defense. It provides armed security to left-wing protestors and trains other leftist groups in the use of firearms. We need real formulated responses for the upsurge in reactionary and racist violence. [23][32][33] In February 2018, Dwayne E. Dixon, a member of Redneck Revolt and a teaching assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was found not guilty of misdemeanour gun charges for his role in a protest against a Ku Klux Klan event in Durham, North Carolina, the previous August. We are not afraid. Redneck Revolt was founded in 2009,[1][4][5] partly in response to the perceived contradictions of the Tea Party movement,[1] as an offshoot of the John Brown Gun Club, a firearms training and community defense project that was itself founded in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2004. Devon Douglas-Bowers, WHITE WORKERS RESISTING CAPITALISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY: AN INTERVIEW WITH REDNECK REVOLT, Redneck Revolt, July 29, 2016. WebThe John Brown Gun Club is a leftist gun-rights group originally based in Kansas. [48] Redneck Revolt and Kessler signed consent decrees to end paramilitary activity in Charlottesville to resolve the lawsuit when they were left as the only defendants in early July 2018. WebThe John Brown Gun Club is a leftist gun-rights group originally based in Kansas. *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. Radical responses to Trumpism in the rural US", "A Professor Brought His Guns to Protect Protesters at White-Supremacist Rallies. About Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club Helping marginalized communities in organizing community defense against white supremacists / fascism. x. [6] Its first major mobilization was a protest against the 2005 national conference of the Minuteman Project. In this tweet you can see they have taken up the road. [12]. [4] Dave Strano, a founding member, has argued:[1]. Weve recently been contacted by several journalists who want to learn more about us, so we thought it was time for a little introduction. [21] The practice of openly carrying firearms and a shared interest in guns has led to dialogs with right-wing militias. But it might have been careless editing. * Mawa Iqbal, Left-Wing Groups Take Up Arms in Name of Abolitionist John Brown, Flatland, July 23, 2020, https://www.flatlandkc.org/news-issues/left-wing-groups-take-up-arms-in-name-of-abolitionist-john-brown/.x The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club in Texas, in particular, has taken a hard anti-police position, casting all police as mass shooters who harass minorities and seek out excuse to unload their weapons. Armed Insurrectionary Anti-Racism Copyright 2023 InfluenceWatch. The Gun Club firmly supports members rights to bear arms for their own protection and as a safeguard against state overreach. Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, Twitter post, August 21, 2022, 3:57 p.m., https://twitter.com/EFJBGC/status/1561442268388671488. When anti-Gay individuals want to hide things that they said they delete pages. 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. This sense of solidarity of interconnectedness and radical empathy sets us apart from militias, and informs the other elements of our work. [22] Members also support the Black Lives Matter movement. Alan Buddug, The Great FB Purge of 2020, Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club, August 20, 2020. Van Spronsen reportedly had an AR-15 rifle with him, set fire to a building on the complex, placed flares strategically around the area including underneath a 500-gallon propane tank, ignited his own vehicle to explode and threw Molotov cocktails at various buildings. 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 While we've been living in tenements and slums for centuries, we've also been used by the rich to attack our neighbors, coworkers, and friends of different colors, religions and nationalities. . John Brown 1800-1859, PBS, accessed September 1, 2020. [41][48] They argued: "There is a marked difference between the armed white supremacist groups who invaded Charlottesville with the intent to do harm and the armed anti-racist groups who came to Charlottesville to assist in supporting and protecting our most marginalized communities". Join the #1 community for gun owners of the Southwest. 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