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    | october 2001 ‘| anti-racist action = bulletin Fd For tha conference - proposal: ARA Nawwork Cake rence 2002 Proposal for workshops addr é. 8 _ARAStore Report 8 Proposal for ARA Network website is and ongoing debates: 9 Proposal for Medio Guidelines ond the debote about “Invisible Revolution 11. ARR of foxes - 3 14 ARA, police spying, and the AntiDefamation league Scene Reports Ae 17 Anaheim/Southom CA ~WP show shot down Aug 18 Wallingford CT = WCOTC rally, April 20 Info Crew — Chicogo, July, 21 New Jersey ~ July 4 22 Michigan antfoscistsfoce riot charges - agein 23. Peotia/debate afterwards concerning “Violen ‘Aniefescist perspectives on 9/11 ond “Operation Enduring Freedom” - proposals for action ng, sexlam in our oct! communtos,ond background articles on exism x from the bulletin crew proposal for 2002 ‘our second end lest issue of the tected tolete We offer @ heartfelt apology to anyone ho expected fo see this about three months ogo, and for whom some of the moteriol seems woy outdated. After 0 yeor of serounging for energy ond for moteril, we hove some suggestions fo moke obout how to make our Network publications more useful and easier to hondle The Infernal Bulletin was started in 1994 cr 1995 - way beck when email wos hord to get ond people wanted « way to share news ond reports. Now almost tonyone who wan that kind of interoc- lion with other ARA folks con have it over email. Yeoh, there are sill problems with “occessibilly"~ i's easier for some people fo use email thon others. But ifs ‘lo hard to photocopy ond mail dozens ‘of 30 poge magazines every few months So we figure thot emeil is « good ploce to have poliical discussion ond share news. In the public realm, PART's “Turning the Tide” ond Chicago's new “*Resoorch Bulletin" are excallent publico- tions for informationsharing, news, ond debate. Teronto's "On the Prowl” consis: tently has news from across Canada ond ‘we want fo expand that section even So whor's the point ofthe Internal Network Bulletin? Well ~ i's © piece of history: « hard copy of some debotes thot hoppen only over emeil; coal groph- ics (sometimesl); it’s the only record of ‘what happens of the Network Conferences; i's @ good way to intro- duce the Network to new people; i makes us fel connected to each oth We suggest thot this year, Montreal co- erdinate a “Report from the Conference”... and try to get it out 2 before xmes, i wouldn't be hard ifthe fociltoters for each workshop were responsible for wring up @ couple poro: grephs obout who! was discussed ot their workshop ~ thot eould go with the notes from the plenaries ond vollal we'd be set Thea, ancther chopter could take on pro- ducing a sort of "Annual Report” by nex! September, in imeforhe 2002 Network Conference We'd suggest thet the “Anaval Report” include updates from the different regions in the Network, and rundowns on the Worchest and ARAStore, And the Report crew would also point out any unre- solved debates ond unfinished business, Finally, it could include ony proposals for the Conference. ARAToronto Conference Announcem 2001, Montreal YOUTH AGAINST HATE: THE 8TH ANNUAL ANTIRACIST ACTION NET- WORK CONFERENCE Montreal, Quebec, Canoda Friday, October 19- Sunday, October 21, 2001 From October 19-21, 2001, Montiéal will host YOUTH AGAINST HATE - the 8th annual Ant:Racist Action (ARA) Network Conference. The conference will tract over 250 youth from oll across Concdo, the United States and Europe. The focus ofthe gathering is to strength- en ARA's work in exposing, opposing cond confronting the orgonized rocist Fight, inthe context of discussing the real, deytoday issues and experiences of racism, sexism, homophobio ond ther forms of bigotry encountered and combotied by youths themselves This willbe the largest antizocist youth conference held in North America ond will provide © crucial opportunity for youth from different communities fo come together to discuss bigotry ond discrimi: ration a it relates to thei lives ond effective ways to counter hated, Every component ofthe conference, from what workshops wil be offered tothe decisionmaking structure of the plonaries to the entertainment and food provided to conference attendees, will be decided ‘upon by the youth involved in the confer- WHAT IS THE ANTERACIST ACTION NETWORK? In 1987, a group of young people in Minneapolis experiencing problems with rocism formed the firs chapter of Ani Racist Action (ARA}. They began o mil font ond highly suecesstul campaign of direct action ogainst white supremacist recruitment and activities in the Twin ent Cites. Their model of action soon cought on in other cities, where like minded youth begon forming other ARA choptes. In 1994, @ network of ontiracst orgent- zations, including several ARA choplers, formed the Midwest AntiFescist Network (MAFNET] ot o conference in Columbus, Ohio The following yeor, MAFNET changed its name and siructure to become the AnliRocist Action Network Six years lter, the ARA Network hos estoblished ond maintained chopters in ‘over 200 communities in the United Stotes, Coneda and South Americ. Member chopters of the ARA Network irely aulonomous and decide for themselves what activities ond issues they vill foke on in their communities, All ‘ARA Network chopters subscribe to the AntiRacist Action Points Of Unity, From its ouset, membership in ARA has been mainly people between the ages of 15. 25, ARA is unique among entirecist ‘orgonizations in thot it hes been almost entirely organized, funded ond directed by people in this ogo range. rR Ss 5 Ns kb Y : o = 2 S For more information on ARA, please see: www. onlracistoction.c. IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND THE CON- FERENCE OR WOULD UKE MORE INFORMATION, ‘Addltionol information regording YOUTH, AGAINST HATE - The 8th Annual Anti Racist Action Network Conference, as well as on ontine registration form, can be found ot: www.antiracistoction.co/eonference We ericourage anyone interested in this Important social issue to consider cttend- ing the conference. FIGHT SEXISM! RACISM! FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY... Fighting the Next War, hot the last one by Michael Novick, People Against Racist Terror Ithos been said that generels ore always preparing to fight the lost war. In this 0s, it looks lke the generals and spy- masters cre woy out in front fighting the next one, while it is we on the let and in the peoce movement who are fighting the les one. Compared fo what we are centering on, the Gulf War or even the Vieinam Wer were only skirmishes. We cre facing « colossal political watershed, Bush, Cheney et ol hove lied about mony things over the post weeks, but they have fold one truth ~ this is going to be a long, total war, and the ferrain on which we struggle has been fundomentaly changed. It establishes the groundwork for all ongoing struggles, inthe US, Conad ond throughout Bush's global “coaliion* of states, Nonatheles, if we ellow Bush to set the terms and definitions of the struggle ~ for ‘example, if we ottempt to define our- selves reactvely ond exclusively as @ peace movement, or fo subsume all our efforts into antiwar ectivism = thon | think thot we will have lost the bottle before We begin it. We would hve allowed Bush et ol 1 wipe the slote clean ofall ur successes and growth in petied in taking an initiative agains the stole and copital, agains the empire. This would cllow Bush to solidify the tem- porary "notional unity” he hos achieved, ‘and to successfully use the brond of roris” to launch a new McCarthyism domestically wth even sharper teth than cold-war enticommunism or COINTEL PRO. Bush hos launched @ progrom and com- paign comparable in scope to World War I orto the Cold Wor. The shadowy ‘end molleable nature of the enemy is perfecly sited to his purposes, and the war will be waged domestically o: wel <8 throughout the rest ofthe empire, In response fo the mirror image "lines in the sond” drawn by Bush ond Bin Laden, we ‘eed to declare our opposition fo the fas- cist terror ond war of both Bush and Bin Loden, ond we need fo put forward on tonalysis and program for dealing with both. We must pu! forward non-state methods for dealing with fundamentalist terror. Ths teror isin no way revolution: ary. Read Bin Loden's statements, in which he calls forthe American people to putin place o "nationalist" govern- ment. Look ot Bin Laden's practice, beginning with hs terror assaults on coedveational education in Afghoniston He is no friend or ally ofthe world's peo: plo. But wo cannot accept imperial wor cond state fervor as an answer or response, nor can we ally or align our solves as a loyal let wing of Bush's cool fon. What can we put forward as a revolutionary program against torror? 1. Civilian-basod defense domesti- cally against torror. The empire has demonstrated its inability fo deter terror attacks on the U.S. for possibly is complicity in uoroniee of more terror precoutionary security measures hove been selfevidently unresponsive tothe thrects ond possibiliies. We need to be involved in active, grass roots community seltdefense efforts - if we ore not, they vill become o province of right wing mass organizing ond base-building and for bréeding rocist poranoia. We must pose this os 0 clear alternative to the slate program, not on adjunct. Such civik fan based defense established on o sound basis con also deal with orgo- nized racist terror, or police abuse, or With rescue and recovery inthe event of disoster. 2. Solidarity with the Afghani people in portcular material id to RAWA, the Revolutionary Association ofthe Women of Aighoniston, which has been strug 4 dling in clandostinity within Aighoniston ‘and among Afghon refugeas for a demo- cratic secular sociey, providing educa- tion and health care. We must pose this 18 clearly opposed to the US allionce with the recctionaries of the Northern Allionce. 3. Alliances with social revolution- ary forces in the Muslim and Arab world. The US ond lsroel promoted and financed the creation of Islomic fund mentolism os © stotegic atemp! to divide cond divert the Arab mosses in Pelestine, inthe reoctionary Arab regimes, and elsewhere in predominantly Muslim soci eties, This is welldocumented. It hap- pened in Polestne with Homas, in Iran with Khomeini, ond in Afghanistan with Bin Laden and the various mujaheddin factions (whether Teibon, Northern Alliance, etc). We must seek ou! the couthentically revolutionary and entimpe- talist forces in those societies, leern from them ond build solideriy wih them. 4. Opposition to state terror by the U.S. government cond its NATO ond other alles, such os Israel, Turkey ond the reactionary Arob regimes like Saudi Arabia or the emi- roles; end opposition o racist teeror insido the US. This includes identifying ‘ond opposing the terror components in cll 2.1/2 wars the pentagon is fighting, such os in Colombic, This involves reasserting all he sues of corporate domination, environmental devastation, and domestic ond interna: tional (neojcolonialism that we were rais- ing prior to September 11, ond that hold true even more in its woke. Reasserting ‘ur people's globalization moveme which oppressed and exploited people in all countries began to learn from ond ‘bout each other end to make common couse. War and international relotions ore foo important to leave to the gener- ols and diplomats. We must create o new gresstoots, non-hierorchical “inter rational.” 6. Developing methods of strug- gle that sink roots, diversity ond inlegrate our movement with popular resistance, below the radér cf sate surveilance and disruption. The empire's drive towards war and 0 police siate will clearly not easily be deterred ‘ond we can anticipate thot the arena for ‘open, public ond legal struggles will be severely curciled. We hove to foster struggles for cultural and political inde- pendence ond transformation, for deol ing with protracted and growing weo- nomic deprivation, for sustaining ond building movements under conditions of incarceration and intimidation. The class, rocial, gender ond national contradie- tions thot plogued our society - and our movement ~ prior tothe hijackings ond cittocks did not vanish; in feet they will be increosingly exacerbated by war ond foscism. We have fo unite oppressed and exphited people on the basis of solidori- ty ond internotionalism end to recognize thal white supremacy and identification With the oppressor continve to be central obstacles to such unity Such o program is the only valid boss for opposing the imperialist wor. There is ro problem of the chicken and egg here, We can't oppose the terror without opposing the war, nor can we effectively oppose the war without opposing the ter ror. Doing both says we are acting inde- ponderily of the state ond the empire os ‘we must now end ithe Futura Implementing our progrom allows us fo demarcate ourselves clearly from terror ism, 1 put forword a poliically and morally consistent opposition to all forme of terror, ond fo avoid the pitfalls of o purely posifist response that will on- ddemn our movement o inefectiveness fond irrelevance. There is on unease with Bush ond his wor, but people seriously want fo know what else they can do, Unless we speak directly to thot need, we wil be (righty) dismissed. Even more so than under Reagon/Bush cond Thotcher, the empire is relying on the concept that There Is No Alternotive [TINA] - or perhaps, more pointedly, that terror is he only alternative to the empire stote, ond that the empire. state is the only alternative to terror. Our task eonters on breaking through that deadly duop- oly. ‘We can anicipate thatthe war will not immediately resurrect the economy and thot widespread unemployment inthe context of the drastically reduced social safely net, and a renewed fiscal crisis - ‘especially for stoto ond local govern monts - will provide ample opportunities for social, political and economic strug- gle over housing, educotion, jobs, pris ‘ons, police abuse, health core, ete ete. In this context, we must put forward o fun- omental criique of capitalism, imperial ism and colonialism as they function both inside and outside the United Stotes, ond © Vision of ereating @ sustoinable ond lib- eroted society in ther place. Who are the real enemies? ‘Many ore now scratching their heads, Inying to moke sense of years the U.S. government and particu: larly the C.LA., had working relation- ships with Islomic fundamentalists oll over the Musiim world, North American ontifoscsls have «let to contribute towards understonding the purpose of these all look ot our govemments’ relation o the ‘exdreme right in our own countries. In 1994, Canodions leorned thot since 1989, the Canodion Security and Intligence Service (CSIS) hod poid Gront Bristow fo inilrote the fascist Heritage Front. Bristow ployed a lead ship role within the Front. In thet position, he helped build the organization, even os he collected information about all the key players. Furthermore, one of his spe- cific tasks wos collecting information about the antifoscist opposition to the Front Meanwhile, necrnai terrorists harassed, threatened, beat up and other- wise terorized a whole ronge of people 2 foct that for ees. We can, in our.communities ~ everyone from ran- cdom people of colour, to leftwing youth, to women’s shelter warkers, to Black community oetivists, When Bristow’s role was exposed, tho Front cisintegroted internally. An objective observer could conclude thot the Conadian state first permited ond ‘encouraged the Front to grow and pros per, ond then pulled the plug. There are countless exomples ofthis kind of “nf tration” ofthe extreme right by sympo- thetic stote egenis in North America Con we say thot the state uses foscists 0s @ battering ram agains! communities in generel, and ogains lat ‘wing eppestion in particular? And how much more true is this in the Muslim ‘world, where communist and leftaving Forces are not allowed to exis, end ore repressed olteratively by dictotoriol regimes and fundamentalist social move: menis ~ both backed by American busi- ness inforests and the C.LA® ‘ARM’ longstanding position, that ‘we can not rly on the state to protect 5 ourselves from the fascists, flows naturally into © position against war in Central Asio, How con we trust our governments to be fighting on the right side ofthis wor, when they have been in bed with their supposed enemies oll this Hime? The real enemy of Americo ond its ollie isnot the Islamic fundamentalist movement. The real enemies ofthe ‘American stole (but not of the peoplel) ‘ore the lefing social movements = everyone who fights for women's rights, education, heolth care, redistribution of lond, «living wage, and against mil farism ond police brutality. As nlifoscists, we ore defending those sociol movements. We are defend- ing the politcal spoce, 1o imagine a world without coercion and exploitation. ‘And we are very specifically defending women, who demand more than the “choice” of ether superexploite tion under capitalist globalization ~ or slavery under religious fundomentalism. We have to demand more than this nom Kris/TO choice — for our own survival | would like to propose at this years! ‘ARA conference, there can be two separate discussion groups on sexism and hostile environments for women (dve to sexual violence, "gender dynomics ot meetings", ect) in the network, one for men and one for ‘women, and then some fime where each group reports back its discus sion points fo each other ond on Proposal for anti-Sexist discussion groups open discussion ensues about how we can oll do better. [think it would be useful for the initil conversations fo happen in soprata groups, because folks who might not fool safe specking, especially women who hove had diffculitias with sexism in their chapters or with specific chapters er women who may hava been sexvally horrossed or assaulted by other ARA offilioted activists. Loslly, if poople fee! comfortable with it, maybe some of the discussions that happened on the gil list eround sex: ism could be discussed o well, Sheilo Background discussion Kris wrote | wos (elhinking about the COARA/KTBOMB stuff recontly ~ oddly ‘enough, ofter reading ARA Chicago's TOTALLY AWESOME "Reseorch Bulletin". [Nery impressive, worthwhile. The short reports by city were excellent. Must be expensivel how do you offord if] Chicogo wrote “itis no accident thot the Los Vegas mur ders, long with split in several impor tont choplers, marked the beginning of decline for ARA in size and activity.” No doubt he Vegas murders ware die ‘empowering end discouroging to mony ARA fois. |hove heard several people soy thot ARA's inadequote response undermined their confidence in the group ‘ond mode them wortied that nobody ‘would have their bocks if something reck ly serious hoppened. Fair enough. I's @ challenge to overcome those weokness- But when I think of the "decline" of ARA - remember the Columbus conference in October 1998, three months after the murders. We should have used the con- ference to debate and plan @ solid strate- ay for taking back Vagos. But instead, we had to deal with the fact that 0 man hod roped a women in the Columbus chapter, that the woman dl not get sotisfactory action from the chop- fer, and thot the woman's supporters felt lik their only option was to totally di rupt an important gathering to moke the ‘woman's voice heard. [think thet what those supporters did wos shity ~ but ul- mately the blome for this ies with the rapist, with those in the chapter who did- n't take the woman seriously, and with tho whole rape culture that made him think he could get away with it Furthormore, I know thet our chapter, cond our region, did not go into deci vail the summer of 1999, a year later, ond it hod nothing to do with Vegas. We Were stronger than ever, ot least wo thought we were, until we had to deal With @ bunch of sexuol assault gorboge thot fotolly sopped our energy. Sexvel essaultis on attack on the basic human dignity of both women end men = ‘ond also our politcal efectiveness ~ not unlike nazi murders ond police repres: sion. And whether we have the correct line or not, whether we ore effective or ‘nol in confronting it~ ittokes energy and resources fo resistin the foce of ony of these ottocks. But if we want fo do this work, we hove no choice except to keep fighting, evaluating, and fighting again. Does anyone else see things this woy? eis, Toronto Michael wrote: Lihink kris is on the mark here. Actually there was quite o lt of discussion in Chicago ot the research meeting about 6 ‘on underestimation in the ARA network of the extent of the "war against women” cond of the importance of opposing male violence. | think Teronto has been plory in bringing such issues tothe fore in ARA, ond although | heor tht it wos debilitating to have to deol with it, the frankness end clarity with which TO. brought their struggles ogoinst male sexe «al violence tothe network ofthe Detroit conference helped us all understond more deeply ond begin to pick the net ‘work up off the flor. | would note that similor issues have come up in this post yer on the eas! coost, within the onar- chist scene in DC ond impacting on zov- «rol collectives and conferences (and recently rehashed in o flome war on the lo enarchist email isl} ond there was cso an incident oto recent ant-author- farian west coast strategy conference here in LA. that hod « very negative impoct on the conference and on the locel organizing group (olong with other negative "gender dynamics" that tended to shut down women's leadership ond Patticipation, moking ARA a network thot respects, ‘oppedls fo and is led by women is an important priority for our survival ond growth. For exemple, ARA Loviville has been instrumental in setting up the Southern Girls network and conferences, but | don't believe that ARA itself has been able to offer « home to this vitl movement, even though we have talked repeotedly about the importance of ARA growing inthe southeastern US. Male chauvinism wos o key weakness tha! stalled the sixties liberation struggles. “Michel, PART. More discussion on sexism — a reprint from the women’s list The heated discussion surrounding what is cr what isn't sexist prompted a bit of dis cussion on the gi lis. Fist of al, thanks fo the men who took a stand end said @ lot of relly important and supportive things. lt was nice to feel like this isn’t just cour Fight. Unfortunately though, there ‘were a lot of really messed up things that ‘were scid and need to be deal wilh. We are so quick o jump on others outside the Network, for instance ARA TEXAS, but we ‘ere sometimes not as able to deal with those same tendancios and ideas perpetv ‘led INSIDE the network. There wos dis- cussion about whether this issue should have taken up al the space in the inboxes that it did. lhwas prety messed up that that was the interpretation. id it ever ‘cur fo all the men that freely pos fo the list that maybe itis not an environment that women feel safe enough to ope {02 Did it ever occur that something is WRONG with that? Did it ever occur that maybe this crap about wondering if its important enough to discuss is one ofthe things that keeps women from taking a more active rola? Alot of Justin's comments were realy, really fucked up, but I don't want this to seem like @ personal allack. He merely veedlized how many men in ARA act. His ‘comments epitomize why women leave ‘ARA. And fo some extent they epitomize why ARA isso while IF we are serious ‘about being in this Fight against oppres- sion we need fo take a good, hard look at cursehesinternclly and make the changes in ourselves that are necessary. It sucks Nobody wants fo be part of the problem, but it needs to happen. Otherwise, plain cond simple, we are ful of shit. And ‘women will keep geting invohed ond leaving feling disgusted. That is what's happening over and over. I's happening new. Is itheppening in your city and you just don't see if On to the comments “i sick of people being so quick fo jump ‘on men for being sexist, but when a ‘woman makes « fucked up comment (or ‘even inthis ease one that is accidently phrased wrong) tsa totaly diferent story because people precive sexism (along with racism, ee} as being one sided, the truth is, mon suffer from the effects of sexism ax well usin first of el, io man makes sexist com- iment then calling him on i isn't jumping’ con him. This statement implies that responding o sexism is somehow an empty reactionary response instead of @ valid way fo help solve @ problem. if someone says or does something fucked up then they need fo be made aware of it or als they will never got a chance fo change. Secondly, no one is saying thal sexism only effecs women. Michael! Novick had gret post that responded to this I's rue that men have a hard time with sexism. We need to figh! his togeth fe, But that does not mean thal we excuse ‘comments and actions that are sexist "50 many people on tis ist seapegoat ‘worse than mos! racists i've had the di pleasure of speaking with. you aren't seeking solsiions, yeu just want fo point the finger. you want fo say tha! men are solely responsible for sexism and pretty much everything ese that goes wrong in this world?-justin What the fuck? fa man says something sexs they need fo be told. They aren't some hopless velis that need to be felt bad for. No one is saying men are evil But men do perpetuate sexism and patr- carchy. They need to take responsibilty for itand ae towards zobing the problem, not spend their time complaining about 7 how it's net fair "a lot women that are supposedly fighting agains! sexism parfcipate in giving men their insecurity complexes. "so ond zo has ‘a small cock... s0 and s0 is @ looser... $0 ‘and so is bad in ibed?. "justin People being mean and petty is totally cif ferent than sexism. | think that many peo ple have no idea how sexism is perpetual ted. That's why there have been so mony ignorant comments going around on this lis. This is « problem we need to work on For rech “how do you think men react when that kind of shit goes around about us? if we don't want fo be seen as being weak or overly emotional, which would make us the forget for every guy tying fo prove himself, then we have fo holdin our emo- tions and eventualy break down and ery in privae... alone and ashamed. trying to break out ofthat is « long hard road and even when you do break out, you are sill labled a sexist, macho asshole, ete ete ete becouse ofthe fact you were born with @ pens."ustin Sexism ineludes not only he lrectment of women, but a sel of beliefs and practices cchout how men behave which are aio ‘oppressive and brotalizing fo other men. ~ Mich! Novick "women may have positions of conta in some sectors (governmen!justin (his comment was made fo prove that sexism isn't really a problem becouse women can hold office) So because a woman can ge inks office, patriarchy doesn't exis? Come on! I's most scary hew out of touch wih sexist issues some people are. I's this ignorance and the fac hat we are not dealing with this ignorance that drives women out of ‘ARAC And it's his ignorance in our soci: ‘ly in general thot keeps women ‘oppressed. WAKE UP! Sexism isn't as simple as not existing ifa woman gets a ‘good job. Would you say that because African Americans ore no longer publicly getting attacked by dogs and waler hoses thot racism doesn't exis? OF course not! This is complex issve Melisse. Website Proposal (OK, Ive been faking this over with some ‘ther people, ond now I'd like to pro- pose that we toke down the website at: worw.aranetorg, which is mirored of ‘wrw.antracstoction.com ond ‘wrw.ontirocistoction.net. Why? Beceuse the site is supposed to be the main site for the Network, but i's sill unfinished ond it hasn't been updot ced in over two yeors. Because despite people at last year’s conference promis: ing 10 update it, nothing's been done. Because I'm tred of seeing emails from peopl that went fo the site there to get information on ARA ond were left won- dering whot was up. Because it pains me when | see emails from racists that brog that we don't even hove it fogether to fin- ish our moin website Bottom line: those that storted fo do the site never finished it ond are never going to finish it, mus loss keep it updoted. Two years is too long fo wait for it to be finished. We need to take it down, ARA-Store Report Ok, the boneheads on ebay caught on to Us over the post month ond pulled some shady shit. ike seting up eboy cccount soley fo overbid on our ouetions ‘and then not poy. like geting our ovc- ions pulled for "violating eboy's user policy" becouse of the word "nazi" or the display of o swestko (nevermind that the whole ferm in our ouction wos "ANTE nazi or thot the picture showed a -swostiko being chucked in the trash). All sorts ticks, Thot hurt sales o litle forthe store. The Sept. 11th attack probably hurt us o lot more - people just didn't feel like buying stuf, Bu we sil did very espectobly, soleswise and the SHARP potches contn- 'e to move like hotcakes, | tells yal So, these ARA Network chapters hove some money coming fo them from oras- fore (remember that 30% ofthe profits from eny order go fo the ARA Network chopler nearest to where the order wos sent - once your chopler is owed $10 or more, welll send you © chequel): Baltimore! Tennessee! N/Side Chicago! Alburqurqve! They icin Leonsing * ‘ARA Boston The Brighter Days Collective ARA Colgory ARA Connecticut ARA Detroit ‘ABA Eost Boy ARA Fredericton ‘ARA Haddonfield, NJ. * ‘ARA Hopewell, NJ. * |ARA Jacksomville ARA KitchenerWoterloo ARA Kirksville ARA Los Angeles/PART [ARA Las Vegos ‘ARA Long Island * ARA Nashville [ARA Philadelphia ARA Raleigh [ARA San Diego ARA Toronto ‘ARA Vancouver ond The Wichita Action Network ‘Who olready have some money coming their woy. (" = dead chapters whose cut 0! ze booly will be redistributed to the next closest chopter). Hoy, did you know that ARA Network. members ond ARA Network chapters get the stuff of arostore for coe! + shippingl Email erestoreGhotmeil.com for details Finally, her's a list of ARA Network chopters with websites that DON'T hove a link #o erastoral CCLAUSTROPHOBIA, CLEVELAND ‘COLUMBUS ‘One Option: we could make wwwaronet.org, ‘www-antirecistaction.com and ‘wwrw-oniracistaction.net oll ink to ‘wwnv antirocistaction.co, which is being updoted on the regular, ot los! ntl we cectually have a Network erew logeth that's commited fo completing and main taining 0 Network main website ond doesn't just tlk the tok, but actually wolks the walk. Tedd, Montreal oc HILLSDALE LAKEWOOD LAS VEGAS LouIsviLe MARYLAND. PART PHOENKK SAN DIEGO TORONTO, WICHITA ‘VANCOUVER People, PUHLEASE link the slore to your titel inet only helps all of us (20% of the profits going to the wor chest ond to ‘ARA Network projects), but YOUR chop- fer will got 30% of ony profits from soles in your areal Find an animated gif for your website cached to this email, to ‘hich you just need to add this code: <{d colspon=18 height=60>- -

    ARA of Texas CC: ARA Son Antonio -fithyfillup6969@o0.com> ARA OF Dallas / Fort Worth PMB 190 601-2 Harwood Rood Bedford, TX 76021 Grostings on behalf of the AntiRocist Aation Network, First off, we would like to congrotulote you on the success you have hed orgo- nizing AntiRacist Action in Texos. Seting up chapters in different cites ocross the state (ond apparently in other states os well, networking them, organizing o ‘number of successful Rock (ond Punk) ‘Against Rocism concerts, doing educo- fionel work through wivw.oracftexas.com cond the emoil newsletter you publish (which is where we've gotton most of our information, the archives ore available fon the web via a link from corootiexcs.com J. Those ere significant ceccomplishments and you should be proud of the work you've done in bulee ing the ARA movement. Though @ number of chapters inthe ARA network have been in contact with ARA of Texas through Ben Frozier during the post year, communica- tion has been sporadie cand we would like to improve on thot. The AntiRacist Action Network has set up @ working group to better fociltte communication between AARA chopiers in Texas ond the rest ofthe ARA riehwork. The ARA network working group can be contacted at the email ‘addresses, phone numbers and postal ‘addresses listed ofthe end of this email We ore trying in general to improve ‘communication in the ARA Network, ond have also set up o number of regional contacts dispersed in the various regions where ARA chopters exist that are port of thenework. Wo think thot o closer relationship between the ARA Network and ARA of Texas would be better focilioted if ARA of Texos could alo set up 0 working group of a fow ether members besides Benjamin Frozier thet our working group could correspond with The ARA Network would olso like con- toct information for every ARA chopter [or "subchopter") that ARA of Texas hos helped organize to facilitate direct com- munication between ARA chapters in Texas (and other stotes whore ARA of Texos hos helped organize chapters) ond the rest of the ARA Network ‘We would like to toke this opportunity to thank Benjamin Frozier for clearing up somo very serious concerns we had afer reading the ARA of Texos newaleters. [ Hore Todd repeats some unfounded rumours thet den't need to be repeated here.) However, we ore sill uncleor on the fol lowing statement, which wos made ond ‘tributed to Ben Frazier in the ‘September 23, 2000 edition of the ARA of Texas public email newsletter #47}: "Some ARA chapters have to be more ferrorstic 0s the Nazis themselves. Some call them ocfvists but think in mony cases it goes fo for. They burn homes cond buildings. They go around in "Klon's" and beot ihe crop out of anyone ‘who looks racist." (Source: htp://wwwlistbot.com/egi bin/subseriber@Actaview_messagedlit deAntiRacistActionof™X&meg_num=47&st ort_num=antiracistactionottx Archive: Message #47 Dete: Sep 24 2000 01:40:09 EDT From: antiracistactionofix Subject: Anti Racist Action of Texas Newsletter 09/23/00) This stotement is completely ond utterly folse, constitutes « clear violation of t ABA Nework Points Of Unity (POU #3: Non Sectorian Defense of other Anti- Foscist), is arguably slonderous and may constitute libel. We wont ARA of Texas and Benjamin Frazier to publicly isue o reroction of this sotement. If Benjamin Frazier and [ARA of Taxas retroct this statement on lic email newsletter ond on their website (www.orocttexes.com, the Anti- Racist Action Network would consider thot to be sufficiont action to resolve this If Benjomin Frazier denies moking this stotement, which was otibuted to him in the September 23, 2000 edition of the ARA of Texos public emeil newsletter (#47), then he should further issue o pub- lie sttement, both in the ARA of Texas public email newsletter and on the ARA of Toxos website, stating his denial While an opology from Benjamin Frazier fond ARA of Texes for moking these flse ‘end harmful allegations ogainst Anti Recist Action will not be necessary should a public retraction of the stote- iment be issued, it certainly moy be @ geod idea inthis cose AnliRacist Action has been fighting ‘ogoinst rocism, sexism ond homophobia since 1986. ARA of Texos' usoge of the nome "AntiRocist Action® ond its adop- tion of the ARA Network's Points Of Unity indicate to us an acknowledgement of and a debt owed to the hundreds of people who have worked herd to build AnfiRacist Action into the world's largest coniiracst youth movement, For this reo- son, we are certain that ARA of Texos, will understond our concerns regarding ‘our movement's reputation ond good sionding. ‘The AntiRacist Action Network sincerely hopes to build « positive relationship with ARA of Texas and bring the ARA. chapters sat up by ARA of Texas into the ARA Network as quickly as possible We hope you will be able to participate inthe next ARA conference in the fallin Montreal, and that we ean ell work together in our common cause. We know that the more we can work together, the stronger we cll will be. The ARA Poinls of Unity reflect the hard-won understand ing of antizocisis in the US, Canada and internationelly tha! with mutual ce=pect, we can establish a bos fo unite our efforts while respecting our diferences tend unique opproaches. ‘We wish to support the efforts of ARA of Texos ond all antizocis's dedicated to ‘combating racism, sexism and homepho- bia in their communities. It is our hope thot ARA of Texes will publicly retract the saloment we bring up in the monner we have recommended, so that we can begin to build o mutually supportive ond trusting relotionship. Qn behalf of the AntiRacist Action Network: Tedd|montreel), George {Toronto}, Melliso (Maryland), Micheal Novick (PART) [Right owey Todd got @ response from the Dollas/Fer! Worth chopter] Door ARA of Montreal; | eppreciote informing the ARA of Dollos/Fort Worth ofthe events thot hap- pened in the ARA of TX. We, however, Withdrew from the ARA of TX due to conflicting opinions. In short, we flt wo were being "governed" by ARA of TX. ‘My friend ond I have founded the ARA of D/FW ond are collaborating to put up tt should be up early morch We are also arranging a benefit show in Denton to help fund our POBox ond to orange @ meeting ot « local ompithe- ter. The reason we are doing one in Denton is due to the recent events hop- pening there. | have cut ond poste the tile ot the bottom ofthis email. | hope to keep in fouch with you and the other cctive ARA chapters to help beter com municate with each ether. | realize you must meet someone from the network before you can be accepted into it. If 1 helps any will be in Northern Alabama {rom the 1Oth-1 Sth of March visting @ friend ot school. Let me know of anyone web in thot general orea thot | could possibly meet with Sincerely, ABA of D/FW [Getting no direc response from Benjamin, Todd wrote back again.) To: Benjomin Frazier cond ARA of Texas CC: ARA San Antonia ARA Of Dolls / Fort Worth Greetings on behalf ofthe AnttRocist Action Network, Ithas been two months since we wrote to ARA of Texos on behalf of the ARA, Network. We hove not received « reply to our concems in tho! time. However, we did read on apology from Ben Frazier in the 3/1/01 newsleter of ARA of Texos. In our lost correspondence wwe asked for a written apology in both the newsletter and on the ARA of Texos website, concerning the hormful ond completely flse rumours Ben Frozier hod wmttlen previously about ARA chaplars physically atacking people and burning down people's houses. Ben's opology in the newsleter wos sdequole. Ini, he rested completely false and unfounded eumours obovt ARA, such os: “When I wrote tht | wos tld about @ ‘ARAskins group who hes been disband- ced from what lean see. They were fire bombing people they fell ware racist ond 30 on. They destroyed a lot of private properly wih militant morals that Icom not support." We do not foe! that this is an apology for spreading unfounded rumours obout ARA. There has never been « chapter of ‘ARA known os Taro skins”. No ARA chapter hos ever been involved in any firobombing or anything of the kind. Such sialements are unirue and complete ly unfounded. 12 We repect our demand upon Ben Frazier tend ARA of Texas to apologize for this rumour ond fo simply sate thot Ben Frazier and/or ARA of Texas falsely reported in previous newslters that on ARA chopier had been involved in an ‘son atlock ond physical atlacks on people and that both Ben Frozier and ‘ARA of Texas regret ony harm this flee: hood may have caused. This apology must be published both in the ARA of Texos newsleter ond on the ARA of Texos website. We also wish o inform you that we hove been in contact with ARA DollasFort Worth. They informed the ARA Network thot their chapter no longer wished to be olfloted with ARA of Texas due to com filing opinions wih members of ARA of Texas. The ARA Network supports ony chopler in Texas working towards becoming a member of the Network, regardless oftheir offilation with ARA of Texas. We hope that this will nt offect ‘our relotions with ARA of Texos ond we ‘also hope that ARA of Texas will not con- tes the legitimocy ofthe ARA Dallas Fort Worth chopter or their righ to organize fon ARA chopter in thot area, This brings us to ARA of Texas! proposed slate siructure. We are, quite fronkly, concerned about the ability of local choplers to make their own decisions with the implementation ofthis "state structure" and we question how the deci- sion wos mode for the ARA of Texos chapter to become the head chapter for the stale; how its boord members were elected or appointed; and who its boord members currently are. While attempts to A REPORT FROM THE "DIY" and "UL FAM" CEUS OF >NOMADIC ANTE RACIST ACTION, Fits off, let vs apologize for goin so for back (Nov. '00}. This is only so b/c this is our chapter's first report forthe Internal Bulletin. Future reports will be more cur rent END OF OCT. BEGINNING OF NOY....SEAC CONFERENCE, HAR- RISONBERG, VANomodic 'ARA presented ond facilitated © work: shop about ARA. We gave @ general history of ARA ond how fo stort @ chop: for. We talked about actions ond pro- jects that we undertook while working with/os Columbus ARA. The ‘remaining (bulk) of the workshop we talked about fighting foscism in the ontiglobelizetion movement. We passed out Mob Action (ARA Columbus's rag), « pamphlet by ‘ARA Cols entitled "Fascism and the Anti Globalization Movement" {we think thot is what it was called), along with other lt, We also ettempted to recruit for the TABD actions TABD NOY. 2000 Cincinati, OH ‘Members of Nomadic ARA took part in ‘organizing with ARA Cols for these cctions. One member delivered the Black Bloc communique to the large rally ct Fountain Squore, Other members worked in the Parent Bloc. While the parent bloc suffered a seibock due to the cold, ond were relagated to hanging out ino mall eatery adjacent to Fountain Squere, we sil managed to pass ut Columbus's "Fescism and the Ant: Globalization Movement! pamphlets. Props 2 ARA Columbus for good orgo: nizing. DEC. 15-17 for so..) FLORIDA YOUTH UBERATION CONFERENCE (neor) GAINESVILLE, FL. The "Lil Fom* cel of NOmodic ARA ottended, set up @ toble cond talked in workshops as ARA men bets. We were able to drow on exper fences from ARA actions fo dromatize points in workshops. JAN. 15:25 WORLD BANK'S 9TH ANNUAL somethinorother CONFER- ENCE, GAINESVILLE, FL So the World Bank snuck into town to hold a confer- fence where about 90 corporate and gov cerment "officials" met to leorn about how privitization of public uilities increases competition. Since Florida is isoloted- being © peninsula and oll and the Goinesville Civie Medio Center only leomned ofthe conference when the local weekly clled to ask what they thot obout it, twas dificult 19 mount any kind oF large opposition. We la 2 go mast Jacksonville ARA shortly before the proests, which we heard were kinda weak JAN 20 MEET WITH JAX ARA, JACK: SONVIE, FL "The il Fam" cal of Nomadic ARA met with about 6 men bers ofthe chapter at a mell downtown, We discussed decision making processes (mainly consensus), noneitichol orgoni- Zolional structure among other things. Contacts ore PukPuk and Reno Mike Puk@jaxara.org or com. Reno Mike's tend the chapter is jaxcra@yahoo.com. MARCH 23. EARTH FIRSTI JOURNAL MOVE IN, TUSCON, AZ ‘The Lil Fom" happened into Tuscon just i time to help the EFL collective move into their new {schwank) office in sunny Tuscon. Check the new Journal for than altho they don't mention that we are ARA, even tho we tolked up ARA while hangin out. oh well. [APRIL (or so) MEET W/ MESA ARA, MESA, AZ The "Lil Fam" met with Chris cond Preston who are organizing Masa ARA. They ware very enthusiastic but @ litle unsure of where to start since they dont have any out end out nazis oF ont choicers thot they know of..ya. wa gave thom a lot of literoture ond advice. it wos good. Unfortunately ot the moment i con't find Chris! email address. Preston's is hxcismythoropy@eol.com. ‘APRIL 9.MAY 11 BLACK MESA, AZ "The Ll Fam" cel made it fo Block Meso after 3 yeors previously doing awareness rai ing progroms in Columboss, OH. We did work around the homestead such as repoiring o coal shed, cooking breaklos!, adding © gutter system to water the clder's apple ond peach trees, built a chicken coop, sheephorded, repaired/rebuit 0 deck and many other daily chores. lt wos @ great experience- please MAKE the time to help in this ser- ‘U8 Indigenous resistance. This struggle is definately a result of racist, clasist’ cond antlndigenous policies. TORONTO,ON APRIL 2001 Right oway George plugged us into the local cctvism in Teronto. The fist day we there we participated in on OCAP cation focused on safe housing. We tagged olong with OCAP to @ housing project which uses 0 security foce to "control" the community of immigrants of color which resides there. OCAP issued their demands calling foro sofe orea for the young folx to hang out, aveilabilty for community meeting places, and on tend to the brutality ond repression per perirated by the security force. The ‘odministration was given a month to fo: low through. We can't wait to hear update. During on ARA Toronto m it wad reporthe thot @ "Rock for Lif show wos planned to occur ot the down town JCC. We decided fo see what we could do to stop this foscist porty from happening. So we went down to the JCC to tal to the administration before planning any type of public protest. The heod honcho wasn't there ofthe time but the front desk put us on the phone with him. After explaining to th thot this show was promoting @ Christian rightwing furdementalist agenda ond coiganization, he immediately told us he was going fo gat it canceled. A coupls of hours later the fascists porty was can celled. Through out the two weeks we ‘were in Toronto we prepared for the Carnival Agoinst Capitalism in Quebec City ond the border actions ot ‘Akwasosone, Rath was a kick ass medic for the cetions and Yoreak had the plec- sure of working with the Toronto affinity group. Mod props 2 ARA Toronto, espe-

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