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Letters to Love and Rage Part 5: Resources Announcements & Upcoming Events US Activist News Roundup Kill Your Television Resources for Anti-Racist Activists Anarchist Resources Supporting Groups & Regional Contacts Disco-Bull .................................................................. LOVE AND RAGE Electronic Edition FEBRUARY/MARCH 1993 Part 1 COPS AND THE KLAN THE PROBLEM OF ORGANIZED white supremacist activity among law enforcement and other uniformed services is widespread, and is only growing in the '90s, despite affirmative action in police departments (or sometimes because of entrenched resistance to it among white cops). The latest disclosures regarding Robert Bauman, a civilian employee of the Los Angeles Police Department for 23 years, underscore the seriousness of the problem. Assigned to investigate applicants for police permits, with access to criminal records, tax filings, and other data, Bauman was discovered by undercover LA and Huntington Beach cops participating in activities organized by Tom Metzger and other white supremacists in Orange County. Huntington Beach police reported that he apparently engaged in counter-surveillance activity against them, disrupting their attempt to cover the meeting and apparently identifying them as cops to other participants. A subsequent investigation by the LAPD's Anti-Terrorist Task Force and by Internal Affairs uncovered other connections to white supremacist activity, and after a warrant was obtained, a search of Bauman's home disclosed a vast collection of material on the nazis and white supremacist literature. Bauman however, claims he is only a independent historical researcher, not affiliated with Metzger. Whatever his affiliation, Bauman used his access to LAPD computers to run checks on Metzger, Stan Witek of the local nazi party, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Irv Rubin of the JDL, a private investigator and Peace & Freedom Party candidate, Jan Tucker, and as many as 200 others. His defense is that he was obtaining the information for his personal historical research and interest in right wing and left wing groups. He says that he was angry at Rubin for disrupting a historical society meeting in Pasadena, apparently a reference to the holocaust- revisionist outfit, the Institute for Historical Review, tied in to Willis Carto's Spotlight/Liberty Lobby network and Joe Fields' Populist Party. Bauman has been given a 10-day suspension, and new Police Chief Willie Williams promises to tighten up access to police computers. But Bauman has appealed his suspension, saying even 10 days is too much, and citing the cases of at least 45 other cops and civilian employees who have been disciplined in the last three years for using the computers for unofficial business. Most received only reprimands or one or two day suspensions. Meanwhile over at the Sheriff's Department, Sheriff Block has been criticized for not implementing the reforms proposed by Judge Kolts. The Kolts report on the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, like the earlier Christopher Commission report on the LAPD, proposed mostly band-aid solutions for a serious problem. But the worst part of the Kolts whitewash of the LASD was its determination that there is no proven foundation to charges of organized white supremacist activity in the sheriff's department, specifically through such quasi-gang formations as the Vikings and the Cavemen, whose members have been involved in shootings and killings of Black and Latino youth. This finding flies in the face of a court ruling that the Vikings were a neo-nazi formation, and another requiring that if prosecutors could talk of the gang affiliations of defendants, the Viking affiliation of Sheriff's Deputies also be entered into evidence. One such ruling, requiring that the LASD actually abide by its own stated guidelines on the use of force, was recently voided by an appeals court as being too far-reaching. But the Kolts Report's most glaring omission illuminates the reality of organized racist activity in the department. In criticizing DA Ira Reiner's refusal to prosecute deputies for brutality or murder, the Kolts Report cites the case of one deputy who went out looking for trouble on New Year's Eve three years ago. He was overheard making racist comments and ended up shooting and killing a Mexican national. Yet Kolts fails to mention that the deputy involved, Brian Kazmierski, had previously been investigated by the FBI and kicked off the force for burning crosses inside the county jail to intimidate Black prisoners. Kazmierski had been reinstated to the department on the express orders of Sheriff Sherman Block. The media went along with this coverup, not reporting on Kazmierski's history, and refusing to print letters which pointed it out. Another area of white supremacist involvement has been among fire fighters. The LA Fire-Fighters Association recently ran an ad showing a fire-dog under the cross-hairs of a gun, with bullet-holes in the ad, to protest budget cuts. The ad was a thinly veiled reference to the LA uprising, in which some fire-fighters were fired upon. But much more naked racism has come to light among fire departments nationwide. In 1989, for example, the City Council of Montgomery, Maryland was forced to withhold funding from a volunteer fire department after the white chief called a Black volunteer nigger boy. In 1990, a Black cop who had helped expose Carrollton, Georgia Fire Chief, L.A. Dukes, for having allegedly designated nigger beds for African-American fire- fighters, was found drowned under mysterious circumstances. In April of 1992, Scott Lowe, the former fire chief of Grovetown, Georgia, who had been exposed as a Grand Titan of the Christian Knights Klan, was arrested for having burned a cross at the home of a local Black family back in 1987. Open racism and hidden white supremacist involvement are an even more serious problem among police forces. In Houston, where the Klan has been waging an active recruitment campaign among the police for over a year, a police Corporal, Al Csaszar, was put on paid leave in July of 1992 after beating a Nigerian immigrant and yelling racist epithets at him. His partner was also taken out of the field. In June 1992, Boynton Beach, Fla., police officer Dave Demarest sought reinstatement to the department after having been fired in February for having flaunted a swastika tattoo to several other cops, including a Jewish woman officer. In his defense, Demarest presented that racism and nazism were widespread and generally accepted at the department. He submitted as evidence a photo of two officers dressed in nazi uniforms for a Halloween party; the picture had been displayed in the office of the deputy chief. A lawyer for Demarest said that another detective had mounted a picture of a Black man on his office wall, captioned Is it a chimp? Such incidents are not restricted to the South by any means. In Denver, Col. in August 1992, two cops, Bill Carter and Ruth Potter, of the intelligence unit assigned to monitor Klan activities, were re-assigned after they sent baby shower gifts to Klan leader Shawn Slater, a former nazi skinhead. In a copyrighted interview with Kerwin Brook, an anonymous white Denver police officer described how many cops will go out and call Black or Mexicano people on the streets nigger or spic, hoping to provoke an angry response and a fight where they can jump or arrest the person. In a separate article, Brook reports the experience of 13-year old Jessica Vargas, who was on her way to protest a Klan rally, when a Denver cop flashed a KKK hand sign at her and her friends. We know the cops are against us, but to see him do it with his own hands! And he just smirks, said Vargas. You just get shocked. In Texas, a Deputy Sheriff named Scott Tschirhart brutally beat two young Chicanos last July; Tschirhart had been forced off the Houston police after killing three Black men. In Calif., it's ironic that the very Huntington Beach police department which uncovered Bauman's involvement with racist and anti-semitic groups is being charged with anti-semitism and harassment by two Jewish cops, who found themselves the victims of constant slurs by fellow officers and superiors. In the northwest, several police forces have recently had Richard Masker address them about white supremacist groups. Masker was fired from a municipal job in Oregon for mailing out Hitler birthday cards, and in August, he was reprimanded at a similar job in Idaho for sending a letter to a business association accusing it of being part of an international Marxist, Zionist conspiracy. Another area of great concern is white supremacist involvement in the military. In August 1992, members of the Aryan National Front and the Confederate Hammer Skins, along with Klan leader Bill Riccio, were arrested in possession of military explosives and ammunition for machine guns at an Aryan Fest concert. In Colorado, the Army was forced to issue a ban last July on military personnel attending Klan organizing rallies at Fort Carson and threatened GI's with discharge if they got involved in Shawn Slater's KKK campaign. One particular area of bigotry among cops is anti-gay sentiments and violence. In Dallas, Tex, for example, the City Council voted earlier this year to uphold a police department ban on hiring gays and lesbians. The Dallas PD uses a 100-year old Texas sodomy law to reject such applicants; people who apply to be cops in Dallas are subjected to a lie detector test and asked if they have ever committed a homosexual act. In 1991 in Salt Lake City, Utah, a cop was suspended for an off-duty gay bashing when he and two friends were charged with assault and anti-gay name calling against a gay man. In Santa Cruz County in northern California last year, Sheriff Al Noren, reluctantly forced to meet with gay leaders to discuss harassment of gays by deputies, issued a memo calling the gay community vicious and devious. Noren defended his remarks as justified because one gay protestor had described a deputy he encountered as obviously a nazi. The sheriff said he considered that remark vicious. People Against Racist Terror (PART) has available a full length research report Blue By Day, White By Night? about cops and the Klan, with dozens of documented incidents of organized white supremacist involvement in police, military and other uniformed forces over the past decade or more. It's available for $2.00 from: PART P.O. Box 1990, Burbank, CA 91507 from Turning the Tide Vol. 5, #6 -30- -30- DON'T TALK TO GRAND JURIES! GRAND JURIES ARE SLEAZY, scummy things that are on the planet mainly to harass and gather information on activists. In a nutshell, you either answer their questions or you go to jail, (and if you answer their questions you probably still go to jail anyway). While limited legal representation is possible, your lawyer cannot be in the courtroom with you, (neither can observers or the press). You can be granted immunity from incriminating yourself (Fifth Amendment), but once granted, you have no legal right to refuse to answer questions. The Jury can still ask you questions about other people. Also, you can still be convicted on the testimonies other people give the Grand Jury about you. So you are not really immune. So to make a long story short don't talk to Grand Juries! If called before a Grand Jury, immediately call the National Lawyers Guild in your area requesting pro bono representation. Tell as many people as you can. Alert the media. Try to rally community support to blitz the authorities with phone zaps, fax-a-thons, letter writing campaigns, and petitions. Let the robed-ones know that they are being watched. We can make their lives hellish with pesky (but-oh-so-legal) behavior. Knowing how to resist Grand Jury coercion and repression is very important these days. For more information, contact the: Movement Support Network of the Center for Constitutional Rights at (212) 614 6438. -30- MOVE: RAMONA AFRICA SPEAKS IN PHILADELPHIA by Bob Helms THE ANARCHIST COMMUNITY OF Philadelphia hosted a discussion with Ramona Africa of MOVE at the A-Space on Baltimore Avenue on September 28, 1992. Over eighty people squeezed in for the hour-long talk and the hour-long question and answer session. Ramona is the only adult survivor of the City of Philadelphia's bombing- slaughter of eleven MOVE members, including five children, on May 13, 1985. She was released this past May after serving the maximum sentence of seven years on riot charges relating to the day of the state murders. MEMBERS MASSACRED Riot, as Ramona explained during the talk, is the official term for sitting in one's own home and minding one's own business while hundreds of cops dump thirty-seven pounds of the military explosive C-4 (which cannot be used legally by police) and 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house, burning it (and about sixty other homes) to the ground. Before the shooting began that day, the cops watched some of the MOVE women take the children out of the house, across police barricades, and into Cobbs Creek Park. (The park is one block from the MOVE house, where the women would chat and the kids would play every morning of every year.) The cops then watched them go back, past the barricades and into the house. Then the cops proceeded to burn them all alive. Anyone, of any politics or any intelligence, can see that the city government deliberately exterminated these non-combatants, with obvious malice aforethought. While MOVE is not an anarchist group, and anarchists might not concur on every particular of MOVE's philosophy, anarchists and MOVE have far more in common than we have in contention. Based on John Africa's teachings, MOVE's mission is: first, environmental to stop industry from poisoning the environment and enslaving people and animals; second, educational to set the example of revolution for people to follow when they realize how they've been victimized and tricked by the government and the system in general, and to show people the need to totally divorce themselves from the system. I, for one, think that these purposes are in harmony with those of most anarchists. Ramona was a law student at Temple University when she began keeping track of MOVE's legal troubles and attended some of the trials. It became clear to her that none of the jurisprudence she'd learned in the classroom was being practiced before her eyes in court. All this began Ramona's life On The Move. Her training in law was well in evidence in the clarity and precision with which she presented her organization's case to the Philly anarchists. MYTHS SHATTERED One by one, Ramona crushed the misconceptions about MOVE members, about the myths related to the 1985 siege at Osage Avenue, and about the 1978 police riot on Powelton Avenue. (These two sites are in different parts of West Philadelphia, each within a mile of A-Space.) Ramona crushed the myth that MOVE was insanely confrontational and had a siege mentality. The incessant and murderous attacks by police abundantly justified MOVE's defensive postures. She eradicated the misconception that MOVE lived in filth, filled their yard with garbage, and didn't teach their kids to read. To the contrary, MOVE members are perfectly clean and extremely healthy; they have discovered composting and teach the kids at home. (I've seen some of the MOVE kids. They're bright, happy-looking lively kids, who have wonderful dreadlocks.) Ramona also denounced the accusation that MOVE is a black-only, racist cult as totally false. While most members are African-Americans, there are very committed Hispanic and white members. MOVE's philosophy simply isn't racist. The surname Africa, adopted by all members, is a gesture of devotion to John Africa, MOVE's coordinator, and is not a fixation on Africa, the continent. RESISTING REPRESSION The MOVE organization deserves all of the respect that anarchists can give it. If our movement were targeted for extermination by the government, how many of us would hold fast to our ideals so bravely and defiantly as Ramona and dozens of her comrades have held to theirs? Would YOU pass up parole, offered on the condition that you renounce anarchism and shun all of your anarchist friends? Ramona herself as well as Carlos, Alberta, Sue, Consuela, and Alfonso Africa all have resisted this powerful method of State coercion, sacrificing many years of liberty in doing so. I've been corresponding with Delbert Africa, who has been doing a thrity to one hundred year sentence since the August 1978 police attack at Dallas, PA. The scenario of the attack went like this: a cop was killed, by one bullet, during a full-scale police assault upon MOVE's house. All evidence was either destroyed, created, or suppressed by the police, the DA, and the coroner. As a result, nine MOVE members got murder raps. Plenty of eyewitnesses say that the police officer was killed by friendly fire. ON ANARCHISTS Now some fourteen years have passed, and Delbert Africa sits in Dallas prison. He is familiar with anarchism, by way of anarchist inmates, and has read some of the movement's literature. About the MOVE philosophy vis-a-vis anarchism, he writes: There shouldn't be any conflict per se, between any anarchist and MOVE, because we don't believe in any form of external government. . . . This system's foot is on all our necks, so all of us should work to get it off. I feel that the new world that we anarchists carry in our hearts ought to have plenty of room in it for the brave and committed militants of MOVE. Let's think of them as very much on our side. -30- Wobblies on the Move Again IWW UNITES LOGGERS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS by Jess Grant IN THE OLD GROWTH REDWOODS of northern California, in the post-industrial decay of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, and in the gay bars of San Francisco's South of Market area, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or Wobblies) are on the move again. Long relegated by many to the pages of American labor history, the IWW is experiencing a resurgence of activism that belies their reputation as a clique of Joe Hill Memorial archivists. This resurgence poses a direct challenge to the dominant trade unions, in tactics and philosophy if not in numbers. LOGGERS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS GET TOGETHER In 1989, eco-organizer Judi Bari helped found IWW/Earth First! (EF!) Local #1 on the North Coast of California, in an effort to build an alliance between loggers and environmentalists. She knew that she wasn't comfortable blaming the loggers themselves for the destruction of the forests. She recognized that they were as expendable to the timber corporations as the trees they were paid to cut, perhaps more so. When several workers at a Georgia Pacific sawmill in Ft. Bragg were poisoned by a PCB spill, it was IWW/EF! Local #1 who came to their defense. The International Woodworkers Association (IWA), the trade union which supposedly represented the mill workers, did nothing to help, and in fact supported the company's position that nothing amiss had occurred. But Local #1 raised hell until an Occupational Safety Hazard Administration (OSHA) inspector came to the site and confirmed what the workers already knew that the spill was toxic, and not mineral oil as the company had claimed. ORGANIZING MARIJUANA TRIMMERS Local #1 is now engaged in its most ambitious organizing campaign to date organizing not just timber workers, but marijuana trimmers as well! As legitimate jobs disappear and the economy worsens, more people are turning to the pot fields to pay the rent. Like most underground industries, the lack of regulation and labor solidarity has created a climate ripe for exploitation and greed. Working conditions are often intolerable, with hours and piece-rate wages not much better than those of urban sweatshops. Of course, the industry has some unique fringe benefits to offer its workers, but smoking all the pot one wants hardly compensates for the lousy pay and the paranoia that comes with the job. QUEER JANITORS UNITE Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a queer workers movement is emerging from the IWW's efforts to organize the End Up, a popular gay bar in the South of Market district. In July of 1992, all five of the bar's janitors had joined the IWW, in response to years of arbitrary discipline and firings. After four months of a successful experiment in collective self-management, the general manager appointed a supervisor over the maintenance department, pushing an already disgruntled crew to the point of action. After two of the Wobblies presented a contract proposal to the management, four of the five Wobblies lost their jobs. They responded to the firings with direct action: blocking daytime liquor deliveries with their picket lines and getting the word out to the queer community about what had happened. They called for a boycott of the End Up, getting the support of such diverse groups as Teamsters Joint Council #7, ACT-UP San Francisco, and School Board Commissioner Tom Ammiano. Queer community members continued to patronize the bar despite the boycott. On September 1, 1992, the Wobblies' Press Conference and Media Circus caught the attention of the local alternative and gay media. IWW member Deke Nihilson burned the rainbow flag, long a symbol of diversity and unity in the gay community, to illustrate how deadly the deception of queer solidarity can be in the absence of class analysis. The Bay Guardian, the Bay Times, and the Bay Area Reporter all ran feature pieces on the dispute, printing verbatim the IWW's critique of queer-on- queer exploitation in the name of community. After two months of intense pressure from the IWW, both on the streets and in the media, the End Up could no longer pretend that the union would just go away. Despite their best efforts to characterize the dispute as one ex-employee with a grudge, the Wobblies' tenacious tactics influenced the community and posed a threat. The bar hired the most notorious union-busting law firm in San Francisco, Littler and Associates, to scare off the union. Pro bono labor lawyer Marc Janowitz is helping these janitors in the paperwork fight. Their case has gone to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the workers' will. Ultimately, the End Up is a battle to educate the queer community abut the kind of exploitation that occurs under the guise of gay and lesbian solidarity. It will also push the mainstream trade unionists to examine their own homophobia and disregard of this culturally and economically marginalized workforce. It's natural that this issue would arise in San Francisco, for decades a mecca of gay and lesbian culture, yet for the IWW there was nothing planned about it. Some of their members got fired, that's all, and they reacted as best they knew how. LEHIGH VALLEY WOMEN FIGHT MANAGEMENT Thousands of miles to the east, meanwhile, in the decaying rustbelt of Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, a very different sort of IWW battle is taking place. There a dozen women at a bingo parlor joined the Wobblies to fight the abusive management policies of the non-profit groups which use the bingo money to fund their good causes. Unlike the End Up workers, these bingo workers filed Unfair Labor Practice claims with NLRB to protest the firings that came down in the wake of unionizing. They were slapped with a picketing injunction just the same. Although the NLRB has now ruled in the workers' favor, the harassment firings continue. Though frustrated by the bureaucratic shackles placed on them, the Lehigh Wobs have been inspired by the outpouring of support from their community. Two years of steady grassroots work in Lehigh Valley, building coalitions with peace and environmental groups, has paid off. These Wobblies have credibility among progressive activists and regular working folk. AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL When the IWW's best-known organizer, Judi Bari, suffered an attempt on her life as a result of her eco-labor activism, IWW was there offering supprort. Bari was targeted with a car bomb (by whatever corporate/governmental cabal tried to take her life) in the spring of 1990. In 1991, the Wobbly Bureau of Investigation (WBI) was formed to pursue an investigation of the bombing, as well as a lawsuit against the police agencies involved in the original (non)investigation and coverup. The IWW membership overwhelmingly approved a referendum to loan the WBI $25,000 seed money to get the project off the ground, thus putting into action their old motto, an injury to one is an injury to all. The WBI's case just recently cleared a major hurdle. A federal judge allowed Bari and her co-plaintiffs Darryl Cherney, Betty Ball, and Gary Ballto move forward with their case (discovery motions and deposition of defendants). The judge threw out the defense's motions for dismissal. SOWING THE SEEDS OF REVOLUTIONARY UNIONISM Although these actions are small in scale, they reveal the value of IWW tactics and philosophy. These are worth re-examining in light of the ineffectualness currently gripping the dominant trade unions: the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL - CIO). Wobblies reject the importance of the traditional strike. The IWW innovated the sitdown strike, later popularized by the CIO, as a way of paralyzing production without leaving the shopfloor. The whole issue of replacement workers, now such a hot topic, would be irrelevant if workers simply refused to leave their workstations. Scabs can't take your place if you never leave it to begin with. The IWW's emphasis on direct action, with all the creative possibilities that offers to workers, has been utterly abandoned by the AFL - CIO. Because autonomous action on the shopfloor bypasses the authority of the labor bureaucracy, it's been deemed unacceptable by those who stand to lose control. Yet tactics like work-to-rule, slowdowns, and dual power (ignoring the boss) are tremendously empowering actions when undertaken collectively by groups of workers. Marginalized workers are still the focus of the IWW's organizing work. While the AFL - CIO tends to only be interested in organizing workers if they're relatively skilled and grouped in large workplaces, the Wobblies are open to any worker, anywhere. Finally, the IWW places no faith in the labor institutions created by the US Government to supposedly protect workers. Though the context of the contemporary labor struggle often appears to leave unionists no alternative but to engage in these bureaucracies, the Wobblies do everything possible to stay out of bureaucratic clutches. The courts and the NLRB are the boss' friend, not the worker's. Even many trade unionists will reluctantly admit that this is so. The IWW offers no challenge to the AFL-CIO in terms of numbers, financial resources, or political clout. Still small, the IWW today counts about five hundred members, most of them in the US and Canada, with a smattering in Australia, Europe, and one delegate in Brazil. The older generation has largely passed on, leaving the union in the hands of younger activists raised in a different political climate than their predecessors. The machismo of One Big Union has given way to a generation of radicals who were brought up on feminism and ecology. The Wobblies pose no direct threat to the AFL-CIO since, after all, eighty-five percent of the American workforce is now non-union. Raiding the trade unions is the last thing on the IWW's mind. The IWW has plenty of fertile turf in which to sow the seeds of revolutionary unionism without stepping on the ground of that dominant labor federation. But if radical ideas and a long memory prove threatening to the powers-that-be, then the IWW may live to again see a day when the name of the Wobblies is as reviled by the ruling class as that of the Bolsheviks and Murphy Brown all rolled together. -30- A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WOBBLIES THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS of the World was founded in 1905. It quickly established itself as the most militant, and most revolutionary, wing of the labor movement in the US. The IWW was modelled on the emerging syndicalist unions in France and Spain. It pioneered the organization of all workers in a single industry into a single union, twenty-five years before the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) launched its successful organizing drives on the same principles. The IWW opposed the division of workers into competing trades and pushed itself as the One Big Union of the entire working class. The IWW was the first predominantly-white union to consistently reject the racial segregation of the labor movement. During the 1910s, the IWW waged countless militant strikes and advanced its anti-authoritarian vision of the abolition of the wage- system. Although smaller than the more conservative American Federation of Labor (AFL), the IWW captured the imaginations of some of the most downtrodden sections of the US workforce. The IWW suffered heavy repression due to their opposition to World War I. The Russian Revolution and general upsurge of revolutionary activity at the end of the World War brought further repression: the Palmer Raids. Hundreds of radicals, including many Wobblies, were arrested and deported. Under the leadership of the Russian Bolsheviks, many of the remaining Wobblies abandoned the IWW in an attempt to influence the AFL unions. Since the early 1920s, the IWW has not been a significant force within the workers movement in the US. However, its legacy has continued to influence many militant and radical labor organizers, and the IWW itself has persisted tenaciously as an organization, always attracting enough new people to keep the old revolutionary vision alive. -30- NOT ALL SKINHEADS ARE RACISTS! by MAYDAY SKINS/RASH THESE DAYS, IT SEEMS EVERYONE thinks all skinheads are racist. Thanks to the mass-media (looking for a sensationalized story to sell papers and air time), and the increased growth of the racist right's organizing efforts in North America, our subculture has been stolen and demonized. THE ORIGINAL SKINS The original skinheads first appeared in England in the late 1960's, growing out of the rude-boy and hard-mod movements. White working class culture united with that brought to the UK by Jamaican immigrants, and skinheads were the result. The original skins were black and white and listened to ska music (a speeded up more danceable form of reggae), as well as soul and blue beat. These skins had a very tough, clean style which expressed their working class backgrounds, wearing Doc Marten workboots, Levi's jeans, donkey jackets and suspenders (called braces). At dances they would wear flashy suits and would mix freely with West Indian youth, whose music and culture they admired. Racial violence by skinheads was near non-existent at this point. How could there be when the skinhead style grew out of black culture and skins listened to black music?! (For this reason, we call neo-nazis boneheads because they are and abomination to where real skinheads come from.) It is true that skinheads were often linked to violence (which was frequently mindless). Skinheads frequently got into scraps with other subcultures, the police, and, towards the end, other skinheads. This eventually lead to their downfall, and by 1972 the original skins were a rare breed. THE Oi! YEARS Out of the punk rock explosion of the late 70's grew Oi, a street level movement of kids dedicated to bringing punk back to its angry roots. Oi! bands sang about real issues faced by youth in the UK - such as unemployment, prison, and authority. And many bands had an obvious left-wing slant (such as SHAM 69, THE BUSINESS, and the ANGELIC UPSTARTS). Unfortunately, other people sought to cash in on the new skinhead revival. Garry Bushell, a writer for SOUNDS music magazine (the SPIN or ROLLING STONE of the UK), frequently played up Oi!'s negative image of violence and aggressiveness, while at the same time making a hefty amount of money by promoting records of bonehead bands. This attracted a lot of thugs to what was once a positive, working class movement. At the same time, due to outreach by the NATIONAL FRONT (a fascist political party which at that time was at its height in Britain), racist and neo-nazi skinheads also began to appear. A mutation of the original racially-mixed skinhead movement, they sought easy scapegoats to the problems of unemployment and recession, blaming immigrants, blacks and other minorities instead of the conservative British government (then under Margeret the Vampire Thatcher). Nazi skinhead bands, such as SKREWDRIVER and BRUTAL ATTACK, and organizations like BLOOD & HONOUR, a racist skinhead network, made the message popular and accepted in the skinhead subculture. Of course, the mass media helped the nazis along by giving them exposure without debate. Interested only in selling papers, the media refused to allow anti-racist skins a voice. And thus the media effectively silenced those who directly fought this nazi-resurgence on the streets, and they flooded the skin scene with right wing scum. Despite this setback, real anti-racist skins continued to fight on for their tradition by organizing Oi! Against Racism concerts and physically fighting nazis out of the streets and shows. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A SKIN Real skinheads hold certain ideals in common. We are all working and lower-middle class. We believe in unity, pride in our class and in ourselves. We enjoy music, dancing and a good night out. Many of us like beer (though some don't). We seem to get in a lot of fights (though many of us do not start them). We are militant in standing up for what we believe in. And WE HATE RACISM. We fight it wherever it rears its ugly head. People ask why we don't just give up being skins, since we get attacked both by the right, for being anti-racist, and by the left and general public, who think all skins are racists. To this we answer that skinhead is our identity. We believe in it. It's who we are, and we could no more give it up than change where we were born or the color of our skin. We are proud of being what a skin really stands for (and not the racist shit preached by the right and the media), and we want to create a culture that expresses our ideals. In short, being skins is our life and we won't let anyone take that away from us. THE NEW BREED There is a growing section of the skinhead movement which is not only anti-racist, but also strongly left-wing. Many of us are anarchists, socialists, communists, and anti-fascists. In addition to fighting racism, we fight against sexism and homophobia (the verbal, physical, and psychological attacks on gays and lesbians). We fight against war, against attacks on the poor and working class (such as strike breaking, cutbacks, etc.), against imperialist intervention, police brutality, and prisons. We fight for a better world based on our beliefs. FIGHT FOR YOUR CLASS, NOT YOUR COUNTRY While many skins are nationalists, and proudly display the flag of their country, we are against this. Being nationalist goes against what being a skin means to us. Patriotism is a tool of the politicians and the rich of all nations to make the working class fight one another, instead of fighting their real enemies. Nationalism has poor kids killing each other in wars and blaming foreigners and immigrants for the lack of jobs (instead of the corporations who exploit us all). Patriotism has been responsible for slavery and the massacre of millions of indigenous people. Instead of nationalism, we promote pride in our class and culture. We believe in uniting the international working class against the rich bastard rulers who screw us over every day. FENCEWALKERS Many skins argue we should keep our beliefs out of the scene. To this we argue that being a skin means standing up for what you believe in and having pride in it. We hate the rich, the police, the nazis, and the politicians. We want change because we're tired of being screwed over, and we want a better world. Politics affects our lives, and we're sick of letting others crucify us without a fight. We're proud of our beliefs because they are part of who we are. So our politics reflect who we are, where we're from and where we want to go. And we're working-class skins who want a change, so our beliefs belong at the shows, clubs, and dancehalls. Also, the nazis offer something to angry kids. These kids often do not start out as white supremacists, but they are in a process of rebelling against authority. The nazis offer scapegoats, revolutionary solutions (though we think the wrong ones), and a strong movement to be part of. If we want to stop the nazis and get our subculture back, we have to offer a strong movement as well, preferably one which offers REAL revolutionary solutions beyond patriotism and nationalism. Fencewalkers are skins who refuse to take sides, but claim to be into unity. We argue there can be no unity with boneheads. In the coming battle you have to choose sides - the nazis or us. And you'd better know which side of the fence you stand on! UNITY IS STRENGTH Being isolated is a drag. Only if we unite can we make a difference in our lives and in this world. If we want to change the media's and general public's view of skins, we have to make our voices heard. If we want to stomp out nazis and reclaim the skinhead tradition, we have to get organized. A better world based on our ideals must be fought for - no one can make it for us! We are hoping to set up a network of red, anarchist, anti-fascist, and anti- nationalist skins. Through this network, we hope to increase correspondence, trade tapes and scene info, organize against racism, and have a laugh. We will hopefully one day put together zines, a distribution, a record label, concerts, and other things to reclaim our working-class, anti-racist history. If you're a skinhead interested in getting involved, write us. Send a self-addressed stamped envelope, and we'll help you get in touch with folks in your area. Tell us what's going on with you: your ideas, criticisms, info from your area, and anything else you think would be of interest. Change starts with us working together! For more info, contact: Mayday Skins/RASH-NYC PO Box 365 Canal Street Station NY, NY 10013-0365 -30- ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE (no date) ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT (ALF) spokesperson, Rod Coronado, who has been hiding due to threats against his life from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the fur industry, is willing to surrender to federal authorities under the following conditions. 1) That all grizzly bears held hostage as experimental subjects by Washington State University (WSU) be released to a wildlife rehabilitation center approved by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA 301-770-8969) and Earth First! (406-728-8114), with the intent of returning the bears to their native homeland from which they were removed. 2) That WSU issue a public statement promising never to capture or acquire more endangered species as research subjects or for any other purposes. 3) That all tax-payer supported research being conducted on mink, coyotes and otters by Washington State University, Oregon State University, Michigan State University, and Utah State University be suspended. Although the Coalition Against Fur Farms (CAFF) and the ALF do not approve of the incarceration of any native wildlife, Rod Coronado believes that the hostage exchange of one species for another is a reasonable alternative. If these three conditions are agreed to, and met, and negotiated through PETA and Earth First! I, Rod Coronado, will turn myself in to federal authorities in Montana at the tribal headquarters of the Blackfoot Nation. As part of the agreement, I, Rod Coronado, swear to cooperate fully with Grand Jury Inquisitions into ALF activity that I am suspected in, relating to the defense of native wildlife and the environment. I swear to testify and answer all questions relating to my role as a spokesperson on behalf of the ALF, and as the Coordinator of the CAFF. I, Rod Coronado, believe that my non-violent actions in defense of the earth, are innocent acts to protect the ecological integrity of this country's natural heritage. This statement of conditions of surrender is in no way an admission of guilt to charges laid by the United States Government, or any other law enforcement agency. It is my belief that with a fair trial, the citizens of this country will recognize that the real acts of terrorism committed on university campuses in the last eighteen months, are those carried out by Oregon State researcher Ron Scott, Washington State researcher John Gorham, Michigan State researcher Richard Aulerich, and Utah State researcher Frederick Knowlton. Recent attempts by the FBI to portray me as a fugitive evading arrest are standard practices by the US Government to convince the public that I am guilty and that I am a violent criminal the first steps in justifying the assassination of Native American activists who choose to maintain their cultural and religious beliefs. Through the example of US history, it is my understanding that if I was to continue my defense of Native American wildlife and lands, then I would be murdered by the FBI or people within the fur industry. The FBI, while questioning David Howitt in June 1992, acknowledged a threat against my life. In May 1992, when the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) raided my mountain home in southern Oregon, the presence of automatic weaponry in my attempted arrest is a testament of the US Government's willingness to use deadly force to squash my representation of Native American wildlife, and those who defend that wildlife. In over ten years of non-violent resistance to the destruction of native wildlife and lands, I have never caused an injury or loss of life to any living being. Through my obligation as a citizen of the earth, I have only ever targeted the implements of life's destruction, i.e. whaling ships in Iceland. I have never, nor will I ever, carry or use firearms or explosives in my defense of my earth mother. My religious beliefs recognize the sanctity of all life and would never allow me to justify a violent act that would result in the loss of life. It is only because of the FBI's record of violence against Native Americans such as Anna Mae Aquash, Leonard Peltier, Tina Trudell, Pedro Bisonette and other American Indian Movement (415-552-1992) activists that I avoid contact with the US Government by living a life in hiding. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Rod Coronado Coordinator, Coalition Against Fur Farms Spokesperson, Animal Liberation Front -30- Continent-wide Project: DIRECT ACTION MANUAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA anarchists are initiating a continent - wide effort to write and produce a manual for direct action and street protest geared to the conditions of the 1990s. One of the primary goals of this project is to draw on the collective experience and current knowledge of anti-authoritarians engaged in radical protest in the streets, neighborhoods, and cities of North America, and to impart this useful information to others in the form of a Direct Action Manual. TO ORGANIZE AGAINST THE STATE Street protests in the past several years have become both more frequent and more militant throughout North America. In the Bay Area, mini- rebellions occurred because of the Gulf War, People's Park, a gay rights bill veto, the Rodney King incident, and activist Rosebud Denovo's recent murder. Since May 1992 there have been a number of flashpoints all over North America where people's rage has spilled over into a powerful force in the street. The State has become quite effective in responding to any incipient uprising. The crackdown in May 1992 is just a glimpse of the kind of police - state action to be expected as the United States collapses internally and people begin to rise up against the continuing injustice. Activists in the 1990s need to seriously re-evaluate current forms of resistance and to consider more appropriate strategies and tactics. CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES There are several existing handbooks for resistance, many around the anti-nuclear and environmental movements, that we can look to as models. These contain very useful information on affinity groups, group dynamics, consensus decision - making, feminism, and non-hierarchical organizational structures. But these handbooks are geared toward specific types of action (such as nuclear weapons site occupations). The Direct Action Manual will be different. We hope that it will lend itself to broad interpretation, so that it can be applied to a number of different situations, not just specific actions, issues, and geographical regions. Also many of these existing handbooks embrace non-violence. This manual will not exclude militancy and seeks to encompass a wide range of tactics. A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT The Bay Area Web Collective is coordinating this project and is urging publications, groups, organizers, and individuals from all over the continent to submit articles and offer support. Materials sent in will be circulated in the form of a periodic discussion bulletin. We hope this will initiate an exchange of ideas to develop this project in a cooperative manner. (To receive this bulletin, send a donation to cover costs.) A preliminary outline for the manual is now being circulated. Please start sending draft material or finished copy right away. Keep articles as short as possible. Already published articles are welcome. If possible send material on MacIntosh disks. At the Atlanta Conference, the Love & Rage Network decided to endorse and support this project, as resources are available. Endorsement and involvement of other groups is sought. Let The Web know how you want to help. For financial contributions, checks can be made payable to the ``Aspect Foundation'', and sent to the Web. Send a SASE for a copy of the preliminary outline and send your comments, suggestions, ideas, and especially draft submissions for the manual to: The Web Collective PO Box 40890 San Francisco, CA 94117 -30- THE 1993 MARCH ON WASHINGTON by Liz A. Highleyman FOR LESBIAN, GAY, AND BI Equal Rights and Liberation will take place on April 25. This event will be the largest queer action since the 1987 March on Washington, and organizers are predicting attendance by up to a million people. The Love & Rage Network is calling for a contingent of anarchists as an alternative, anti-authoritarian presence at the march. Many Network members are queer themselves, and the Network has consistently supported queer liberation. The march is being organized by delegates from across the US, as well as representatives of special groups such as AIDS activists and prisoners. The organizers are committed to gender parity and participation by people of color. The march platform contains a wide range of issues and was hashed out at national meetings over the course of the past year. As might be expected, there has been considerable controversy. More- conservative people opposed planks concerning civil rights for people of color, reproductive rights, and universal health care, wanting to maintain a single issue focus on gay civil rights. More radical queers opposed the focus on mainstream electoral politics, on the demand for gay participation in the military, and on the demand for same-sex marriage. Needless to say, many people will not agree with every position in the platform, and participation does not imply 100% support. (In fact it may be even more important for those who do not agree to attend and make their voices heard.) This march appears to be the beginning of a broad coalition for sexual and gender liberation, which encompasses and goes beyond the existing gay and lesbian movement. After much discussion and debate, bisexuals were explicitly included in the title of this march. Transgender people were not included in the title this year, but their concerns are represented in the platform and many transgender people plan to participate. Leatherpeople plan a strong presence as well. Several broad based (non gay-specific) politically progressive organizations have endorsed the march and plan to take part. Hopefully there will be a large showing of non-gay/lesbian/ bisexual people who support the freedom of sexual choice. After the showing by the ultra right in the recent election, many are considering this march to be a show of queer strength and support in the face of reactionary attacks, as well as a reminder to the new administration that sexual minority concerns cannot be ignored now that the election is over. It is important that anarchists have a presence in the march to let people know that we cannot rely on laws and the government to guarantee queer liberation. Direct action groups such as Queer Nation and ACT UP will have a strong presence. In addition to the march itself, civil disobedience actions are planned for the following Monday (April 26). The Love & Rage Network Council meeting will be held on the same weekend of the march, on Friday Saturday, April 23 24. Plans for any actions that the anarchist contingent might want to take during the march or the day after can be discussed at this time. It was decided at the conference in Atlanta that a black bloc is probably not the best tactic for this march. As queers and supporters of queer liberation we want to be seen, not hide behind masks. (This relates to the historical need for queers to keep themselves hidden.) We also discussed the need to be very careful, especially as a non-gay-specific group, to select appropriate targets for any actions and to make our message clear. (Many felt that this was not done well at last year's reproductive rights march.) The provisional plan is to see what ACT UP and other direct action groups have planned and to plan our actions accordingly. We hope that many anarchists and anti-authoritarians will participate in the contingent, not only those who consider themselves Love & Rage affiliates and supporters. Because so many people are expected in DC, travel and accommodations will be tight. (Several national organizations are holding their yearly meetings that weekend as well). So plan early, and come to DC to support queer liberation! Contact Love & Rage at (212) 569-0989 for information on travel and lodging arrangements. -30- Round-Up: FASCIST ATTACKS The following is a small sample of recent fascist attacks: TORONTO, ONT -- Hate crime statistics indicate that there were 500 more hate crimes here in 1992 than in 1991. -from National Public Radio TAMPA, FL -- Christopher Wilson, an African-American man from Brooklyn, was set on fire by three white men on New Year's Day, 1993. A note found at the scene of the burning read, One less nigger, one more to go, and was signed KKK. -from NY Newsday PATTERSON, NJ -- A Paterson police officer, Lt. VanKluyve, was caught with a cache of neo-nazi literature, machine guns and gun parts, and $97,000 cash, strongly suggesting that he is linked to organized white-supremist terror. (No kidding!) After VanKluyve tried to buy two gun-silencers from undercover federal agents, his home in Wyckoff, NJ was raided by a joint force of federal, county, and city agents on January 5, 1992. -from Plain Words OPOLE VOIVODSHIP, POLAND -- A group of neo-nazis from Germany, the National Offensive, has set up headquarters in this Polish village. Nazi literature is sold in local stores. Throughout the region, memorials with German-language plaques have been erected to nazi soldiers. The National Offensive claims that their aim is to restore a Greater Germany, stretching all the way to Lithuania. So far no specific acts of violence have been linked to the group, but Poles in the area are concerned. -from The Polish-American Journal SOFIA, BULGARIA -- Among the youth here there have recently ppeared disturbing nationalist, neo-fascist, racist and anti-semetic tendendies. In Sofia, as in the west, this has occured mainly with skinheads. They support neo-fascist ideas and endorse racism and violence. Groups of these youths attack other, innocent youths on the main streets of Sofia. They provoked the terror at Club 113 of the University of Sofia. There is nothing left for us to tell you except: HIT THE NAZIS IN THE MUG! Federation of Anarchist Youth Antonio Grozdev -from Action Newsletter NOVI SAD, CROATIA -- Petar Babic, a Serb , was postering the following text when he was beaten by a Serbian mob in October 1991. In November 1991 he was found dead, killed by a bullet. The reemergence of nationalism throughout the world is a phenomenon of importance too great to be ignored. ~ Nationalism will define us, divide us, and dominate us; it has no place in the struggle towards self-realization, free global interaction, and liberty. ~ Categorize humans you cannot. Nations are false divisions. We are one because we are all human beings. We are separate because we all recognize the viability of free personality....~ Independence movements are the veneer of national hatreds and political trickery. Don't buy the lie. Your oppressor isn't just there. It's all around you. It might even be yourself.~ Power to the people,not to their nations. The borders we build are the borders we will have to live behind. -- from the Extra-Nationalist Commission -30- Short Takes: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FIGHT TO SAVE AUDUBON BALLROOM NEW YORK CITY -- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SHUT DOWN Hamilton Hall (a University building) with a blockade, on December 21, 1992, in protest of the University's plans to turn the Audobon Ballroom a bio-genetic research lab. The Audubon Ballroom, the assassination site of Malcolm X, is located in the middle of Harlem. The bio-genetic testing could endanger the lives of nearby residents. Instead, students and community residents want the building turned into an international multi-cultural research center, for community use. Demonstrators successfully and spontaneously shut down two main roads first Broadway, then Amsterdam Avenue, and then Broadway again. The cops were too slow and unable to arrest anyone. A series of smaller demonstrations followed the next week. * Whites Set Black Man on Fire TAMPA, FLORIDA - Christopher Wilson, an African-American man from Brooklyn, was set on fire by three white men on New Year's Day, 1993. A note found at the scene of the burning read, "One less nigger, one more to go," and was signed "KKK." Wilson suffered burns over forty percent of his body. --from the NY Post * NAZI COP PATERSON, NEW JERSEY - A Paterson police officer, Lt. William VanKluyve, was caught with a cache of neo-nazi literature, machine guns and gun parts, and $97,000 cash, strongly suggesting that he is linked to organized white-supremist terror. (No kidding?) After VanKluyve tried to buy two gun-silencers from undercover federal agents, his upper-middle class home in Wyckoff, NJ, was raided by a joint force of federal, county, and city agents. The raid took place on January 5, 1992. from Plain Words #1 * Klan Rally AUSTIN, TEXAS - The Klan held a rally at the state capitol building on January 16, 1992, to recruit new members and to protest Martin Luther King Day. A counter demonstration and march was organized by Peoples Anti-Racist Coalition (PARC), a peace and justice group. --from some anarchists in Austin * Tiny Vandals FINDLAY, OHIO -- TWO SECOND-GRADERS AND A FOUR YEAR-OLD were arrested on charges of vandalizing an elementary school, causing $20,000 of damages, over the weekend of January 9, 1993. Officials are unsure of how to proceed. All power to the young people! -30- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ _Love & Rage_ is a Revolutionary Anarchist newspaper produced @ by the Love and Rage Network. 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