We are teachers, loggers, artists, and farmers. While Protect Texas Kids has been allowed back on twitter. Then His Troubles Started", "Lemons: Lefties with Guns Ready to Rumble with Right-Wing Militias, Says Arizona Anarchist", "Pro-Gun, Pro-Labor and Anti-Racist, Redneck Revolt Is Trying to Steer Whites Away from Trump, Right-Wing Militias", "A New Wave of Left-Wing Militants Is Ready to Rumble in Portlandand Beyond", "Meet Redneck Revolt, the radical leftist group arming working-class people so they can defend minorities", "Militant anti-Klan protesters march through downtown Asheboro", "Redneck Revolt builds anti-racist, anti-capitalist movement with working class whites", "Extremism experts are starting to worry about the left", "What is Redneck Revolt? We need to abolish the police., Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, tweet, July 9, 2022: The John Brown Gun club is at it's core founded on abolitionist points of unity. Its political positions are anti-capitalist, anti-racist and anti-fascist. We hope to never need to act on that capacity, and we train so we wont miss if we have to., DMV John Brown Gun Club, tweet, July 18, 2022: Fuck Jason Bagshaw. Every single one is a mass shooter in waiting. [12], The group does not identify itself as part of the political left,[21] nor as politically liberal. [3] [4] [5] [6] The club calls itself an " anti-fascist, anti-racist, pro-worker community defense organization". This is the same webpage I had saved at the Internet Archive. That's why Redneck Revolt was named as a defendant, and why they remain in the suit". If others have rifles, well have rifles: why US leftist groups are taking up arms. The Guardian, July 22, 2019. [7] There is no official count of the number of chapters,[26] but as of December 2017 the group had around 45 such local chapters across more than 30 U.S. John Browns Mountaineer Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed August 31, 2022, David Weigel, On the campaign trail, many Republicans talk of violence,, Chauncey Devega, Doomsday? Your email address will not be published. To date, Gun Club members have reportedly not engaged anyone with their weapons during one of these protests. . According to that group, the John Brown Gun Club seeks to disrupt fascists and fascist organizations and events. Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed July 26, 2022. [12] A member has said that the group tries "to acknowledge the ways we've made mistakes and bought into white supremacy and capitalism, but also give ourselves an environment in which it's OK to celebrate redneck culture". 4:37 [3] Redneck Revolt issued a statement saying that it had chosen to end the lawsuit and to "focus our energies on the many important fights ahead". [50] Gabriel Kuhn responded to Ignatiev in a 2018 article. July 13, 2019: 69-year-old Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club member Willem Van Spronsen snuck into the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements Northwest Detention Center facility in Tacoma, Washington, with a rifle. On 8/28 about two dozen Christian Fascists including Proud Boys and Militia came to attack a drag brunch in Roanoke, TX. [17], The group supports gun rights[1][16][24] and runs firearms training events. [Redneck Revolt] reminds us of the capacity for a single organization to hold a multiplicity of meanings, aims, and practices. Kelly, Kim. *David Weigel, On the campaign trail, many Republicans talk of violence, Washington Post, July 23, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/24/republicans-civil-war-midterms/.x In November 2020, counterinsurgency and military strategy expert David Kilcullen told Salon that while groups such as Redneck Revolt and the John Brown Gun Club claim to be defensive and seek to protect people on the streets from violence, the fear they evoke can also be a trigger for violence. Join the #1 community for gun owners of the Southwest. The phrase #WeKeepUsSafe is a rallying cry of community self-defense but also an acknowledgment of the terrors and ineptitude of the systems of power designed to control and not protect us., Cedar Breaks John Brown Gun Club, tweet, August 28, 2021: Fuck the pigs and give people money is the only acceptable political position., Spokane John Brown Gun Club, tweet, August 29, 2020: If there is a standoff against the cops, stick together to form a cohesive front. The original club was active between 2002 and 2008, but it has since given rise to spinoff groups such as the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club. These left-wing activists protest minorities with guns", "The left's answer to emboldened white supremacists? Armed Insurrectionary Anti-Racism One group, Redneck Revolt, came into existence after it split off from the gun club. Nov 22, 22 Report Back on Community Defense of Story Hour in Denton, TX Report from Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club on recent defense of a community event in so-called Denton, Texas. [25] Members often view the practice of openly carrying guns as a political statement that intimidates opponents and affirms gun rights. [13][14][20] Redneck Revolt supports the rights of Muslims, immigrants and LGBT people and is opposed to economic inequality. The group supports gun rights and members often openly carry firearms. This video, shared by Andy Ngo, shows the terrifying moment a man who stated: Im a Fascist, Not a Nazi charged at a family with two young children leaving the event. There were no other casualties. [10] The use of the term is also intended as a form of subversion or reappropriation. The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club was active in blocking the activities of Proud Boys protesting the drag show as shown in this tweet. WebThe Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club ( PSJBGC) is a Puget Sound Area gun club, formerly affiliated with Redneck Revolt. We need real formulated responses for the upsurge in reactionary and racist violence. Please. Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club @EFJBGC Armed antifascists were met by cheers and were joined in marching by random patrons of the Gayborhoods famous Strip, which had been targeted by over 50 violent self-described Christian Fascists led by John Doyle and Kelly Neidert just three weeks before. [9], The group argues that the white working-class have more in common with working-class people of color than with the wealthy. x The Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club offers firearms classes and distributes literature at community events around Washington, including at the Anarchist Book Fair and other events aligned with the groups far-left ideology. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/19/ice-detention-center-attacker-killed-by-police-was-an-avowed-anarchist-authorities-say/, https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/john-brown-gun-club, https://www.redneckrevolt.org/single-post/2016/07/28/WHITE-WORKERS-RESISTING-CAPITALISM-AND-WHITE-SUPREMACY-AN-INTERVIEW-WITH-REDNECK-REVOLT, https://twitter.com/SteelCityJBGC/status/1337094441492951040?s=20&t=mmveGvb53xZhr1e8xmje7Q, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/22/if-others-have-rifles-well-have-rifles-why-leftist-groups-are-taking-up-arms, https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/08/20/patriot-prayer-rally-seattle-plenty-guns-and-shouting, https://web.archive.org/web/20190719191925/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/19/ice-detention-center-attacker-killed-by-police-was-an-avowed-anarchist-authorities-say/?utm_term=.fcc3353ea7a7, https://www.thedailybeast.com/seattles-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-chaz-has-armed-guards. Nazis Go to East Palestine Ohio to Exploit the Railroad Disaster, Bullsh*t on Parade: Fake Anti-War Rally a Flop, but Neo-Nazis were Fine with That, Portrait of a Punkass: How Joey Gibson Settled an Antifascist Lawsuit & Told the World He is a Damned Liar. Nov 22, 22 Report Back on Community Defense of Story Hour in Denton, TX Report from Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club on recent defense of a community event in so-called Denton, Texas. The Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club changes positions to the start of the Trans Pride March near Cal Anderson Park in Seattle, Washington, on 28 June 2019. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, international policy organization formed to combat the growing threat from extremist ideologies. Members of the Antifa group John Brown Gun Club have started a GoFundMe after having their weapons stolen at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). We have covered swastikas and racist graffiti on walls and under bridges. https://crimethinc.com/2019/07/14/on-willem-van-spronsens-action-against-the-northwest-detention-center-in-tacoma-including-the-full-text-of-his-final-statement. Firearms are a big part of the mid-Missouri chapter of the John Brown Gun Club. WebThe group supports gun rights and members often openly carry firearms. We have supported the work of other groups doing similar work, and they have supported us. *Chauncey Devega, Doomsday? [42][43], In October 2017, Redneck Revolt was one of a number of groups named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the city of Charlottesville and several Charlottesville-based businesses and neighborhood associations which sought to prohibit militia and paramilitary activity in Virginia. https://www.flatlandkc.org/news-issues/left-wing-groups-take-up-arms-in-name-of-abolitionist-john-brown/. [36], At the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 1112, 2017, several Redneck Revolt chapters provided armed security and medical assistance for counter-protesters. The incident in northern Burki https://t.co/wumd9vTLSw, Singapores Internal Security Department reports the arrest of the youngest person to be charged for terrorism-rela https://t.co/PhimWufbBi, RT @StewGlobal: Ottawa-based ISIS recruiter has agreed to plead guilty to all counts. Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club is still fighting anti-drag show protesters. Van Sant has also identified three lessons that Redneck Revolt offers to the American left, namely that working-class white people "are not inherently conservative"; that the group's success is drawn from their critique of modern American liberalism, including on firearms issues; and that they do not employ the rhetoric of white privilege, diversity or inclusion, but instead "position themselves as part of working class and white rural communities" and "act in solidarity with oppressed peoples". Background The group is run by Kelly Neidert who constantly is finding something a menace to children. [6][7] In the early 2000s, John Brown Gun Club members operated anti-racist stalls at gun shows in Kansas. (We have in our directory of anti-Gay groups a listing of who they are. Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed September 1, 2020. Patriot Prayer rally in Seattle: Plenty of guns and shouting. Southern Poverty Law Center, August 20, 2018. John Brown Gun Club. Counterextremism.com. [17] A spokesperson for the Phoenix, Arizona John Brown Gun Club said in April 2017 that the group includes anarchists, communists, libertarians and Republicans. * John Brown 1800-1859, PBS, accessed September 1, 2020, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html.x The affiliates of the John Brown Gun Club have dedicated themselves to emulating Browns brand of direct action in support of ideals of freedom and equality. [3], The original John Brown Gun Club grew out of the Kansas Mutual Aid Collective in Lawrence, Kansas. The Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club changes positions to the start of the Trans Pride March near Cal Anderson Park in Seattle, Washington, on 28 June 2019. It provides armed security to left-wing protestors and trains other leftist groups in Claudia Koerner, Police Shot And Killed An Armed Man Allegedly Attempting To Set Fire To An ICE Detention Facility, BuzzFeed News, last updated July 14, 2019. 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