Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit LOVE AND RAGE Electronic Edition FEBRUARY/MARCH 1993 Part 5 ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS A Wimmin's Health Tour, with anti-authoritarian focuses, is being facilitated by the Love and Rage Network this year. Tours will be coordinated regionally, with financial and other support available from the Network at large. If you would like to speak/tour, find speakers to tour, and/or find groups to host speakers, all in your region, please call or write the NY office or your regional organizing contact. If you would like to contribute any material on wimmins health/self-health, please send it to Jodi, the Info-Share Coordinator. [See page 13.] Materials will be bound into a photocopied reader, and can be distributed at cost, as well as used on the tour. * A groovy anarchist collective in Venezuela is starting an exposition of anarchist material from around the world newspapers, 'zines, books, videos, and the like. They want any-and-everybody to send them stuff. So get to it! Send packages to: Aptdo Postal 109 Barquisimento, VENEZUELA * The Frenzy invites you to a gnarly Anarchist Conference from July 29 August 1, 1993, in lovely Vancouver, BC. ``A good fuckin' time! For more info contact: The Frenzy, #122 - 1895 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, V5N 4A6, Canada * The results are in. The Youth Greens project has dissolved. A referendum was held last summer to determine the fate of this group of green anti-authoritarians. Remaining funds and resources are going to Free Society, the eco-anarchist journal that many past Youth Greens have been working on. For more information write to: Free Society PO Box 7293 Minneapolis, MN 55407 -30- US ACTIVIST NEWS ROUNDUP CALIFORNIA -- THE SACRAMENTO group that puts out "Alphabet Threat" is making plans to open a community center, as are some activists in the Long Beach/Los Angeles area.... The SouthernCal Anarchist Gathering drew a crowd of over four-hundred December 4-6, 1992. New Food Not Bombs! (FNB!) chapters have sprung up in Long Beach and Los Angeles.... Some Long Beach anarchists were ticketed for wheat-pasting anti-cop flyers - to the tune of $700! The city dropped the fine, however, when threatened with a civil liberties suit. Hooray! ... An Anarchist Hotline for the Bay Area is (510) 273 2449. Alphabet Threat, 3018 J Street #140 Sacramento, CA 95816 Long Beach FNB!/So. Cal Web, PO Box 4472, Long Beach, CA 90804-0472 * PORTLAND, OREGON -- ROSEBUD Commons Resource Collective, a community center extrordinare, has opened in the Albina neighborhood. Several groups are based at the center, including Anti-Racist-Action, FNB!, and BEIRUT USA (an anti-government group). Live Wild Or Die is now being produced and printed from this anarchist space. Those at the Commons are committed to building community in the marginalized and most heavily-policed neighborhoods of Portland. Rosebud Commons is named in memory of activist Rosebud Denovo. [See Love and Rage Vol. 3, No. 7] ... Also active in Portland: Scavenger and Crux Presses, Haymarket Media Project, Jones' Planet Music Collective, Albina Open Jam Collective, Fuzzbane, Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), Albina Earth First!, and Albina IWW. Rosebud Commons, PO Box 19281951 W. Burnside, Portland, OR 97209 -30- KILL YOUR TELEVISION BURLINGTON, VT -- A REVOLUTIONARY anarchist news and views program is now on TV! Kill Your Television (KYT), airs local, national, and international news, interviews, and videos. The program also hosts discussions of radical ecology, smashing the state, armed revolution and more! It's fun for the whole family! KYT, produced by the Biodiversity Liberation Front and Autonome Forum, is on every Wednesday night from 7:00- 7:30pm on cable-access Channel 15 in Burlington, VT. -30- RESOURCES FOR ANTI-RACIST ACTIVISTS by Christopher Day THE FOLLOWING GROUPS AND resources represent a broad spectrum of political perspectives within the anti-racist and anti-fascist movement. Some groups are centrist, some are liberal, some are communists, and some are coalitions of different tendencies. I believe that anti-fascist work can only succeed if it is carried out in a non-sectarian fasion. That doesn't mean that anarchists should abandon our commitment to militancy, but rather that we should try to develop good relations with groups we may have differences with because there will be times when we can work together, and we can't afford to go it alone against this rising menace. Every serious anti-racist should at least make initial contact with all of these groups. Let them know what you are doing (keeping in mind security questions, particularly with groups that deal with the cops) and find out what they are doing. Center for Democratic Renewal PO Box 50469 Atlanta GA 30302-0469 tel (404) 221 0025 CDR is probably the best source of up to date information on the racist right in the US. They provide educational speakers, publish a number of valuable pamphlets, and have produced a very good organizing kit "When Hate Groups Come to Town". CDR's strength is their information on the more established racist right (the Klan, Aryan Nations, and older Nazis). They are not as in touch with the racist skinhead scene, but want to be. For this reason, they are relatively friendly to more militant anti-racist groups that have good information or do solid work around skinheads. While they encourage groups to develop contacts with local police forces for strategic reasons, they are not naive about the cops. Their intelligence on the racist right is the best available. They publish "The Monitor". DCSCAR PO Box 18291 Washington DC 20036 tel (202) 529 5037 The DC Student Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism came together during the upsurge of student anti-apartheid activism in 1985. They have continued to do anti-racist work and remain one of the more vibrant student and youth based anti-racist groups. They publish "SCAR NEWS". Coalition for Human Dignity PO Box 40344 Portland, OR 97240 CHD came together around the rising tide of racist activity in Oregon, which includes both a significant racist skinhead scene and the more rural Christian Identity churches associated with the Aryan Nations. They mobilized around the civil suit against Tom Metzger and the White Aryan Resistance waged by Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center. They are affiliated with CDR and most recently focused their work on opposing the Anti-Queer ballot Measure 9 in Oregon. Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism 234 Loyola Ave. Suite 915 New Orleans, LA 70112 tel (504) 523 2811 LCARN came together when David Duke first ran for the Louisiana State Legislature in 1989. They were the main group to organize against his failed bid for the Governor's office in 1991. They did excellent work in exposing Duke's efforts to present himself as a reformed Klansman and are the best source of information on Duke and his wing of the racist right. People Against Racist Terror PO Box 1990 Burbank, CA 91507 PART is a small collective that publishes a very good anti-racist newsletter, that is itself an excellent place to find resources. Their letters page is a lively forum for younger anti-racist's grappling with the difficult questions that confront anti-racist organizing. They have organized confrontations with racist groups in Southern California as well cultural events (Hardcore and Hip Hop shows). John Brown Anti-Klan Committee 220 9th St., Suite 443 San Francisco CA 94103 tel (415)330 5360 JBAKC is a militant white anti-racist group that is closely tied to the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, a Marxist anti-imperialist group. They have been very supportive of anti-racist skinhead organizing efforts and more militant approaches to confronting the racist right. They publish a newsletter, "No KKK No Fascist USA", irregularly. Race Traitor PO Box 603 Cambridge, MA 02140 "Race Traitor" is a new journal subtitled Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity. They are seeking to become the voice of a community of people of European descent who want to abolish the white race as a historically constructed social formation. This is vital intellectual ammunition for those of us trying to make sense of doing anti-racist work among white people. The first issue was 128 pages and costs $5. Klanwatch/Southern Poverty Law Center 400 Washington Ave. Montgomery, AL 36104 The Southern Poverty Law Center is best known for their legal battles against white supremacist groups. Their most recent victory was against Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance. The Law Center brings civil suits against groups that incite racist crimes and thereby seeks to financially damage those groups. They also produce some excellent literature on the Klan that should be of use to everybody. Searchlight 37B New Cavendish Street London WIM 8JR UK "Searchlight", a monthly magazine, is probably the best source of information in English on fascism as an international movement. They have coverage of groups in North America, but are best known for their European coverage. Politically they are close to the Center for Democratic Renewal. One blemish on their record has been some unfounded attacks on Class War and other anarchists. Anti-Fascist Action/Fighting Words BM Box 1734 London WC1N 3XX UK AFA is a militant anti-fascist organization in England that includes many revolutionary anti-authoritarians. Their publication, "Fighting Words", is useful as a window on what a serious fighting anti-fascist movement might look like. It doesn't have much intelligence info that is of use to North Americans, but it is an inspiration to read the lively and intelligent discussions of people who are really in the street taking on the racist right. Blood in the Face by James Ridgeway Thunder's Mouth Press For $18.95 this book is probably the most comprehensive overview of the racist right in the US that is generally available. Ridgeway is a reporter for the "Village Voice", and he did his homework for this one. This book is absolutely crucial to understanding the ins and outs of the racist right. Buy it immediately. If you can't find it in a bookstore you can get it from CDR. Canadian Center on Racism and Prejudice Box 505 Station Desjardins Montreal PQ H5B 1B6 Canada tel (514) 727 2936 The CCRP is basically the Canadian version of the Center for Democratic Renewal. The organization was founded in the late 1980s by French-speaking Qué becois in response to the growth of the Klan (yes, the Klan), and right-wing strains of Quebecois nationalism in Quebec. They have since broadened their work to include all of Canada. Anti-Defamation League 823 UN Plaza New York, NY 10017 tel (212) 490 2525 It is with great reluctance that I even include this outfit on a list of anti-fascist resources. The ADL routinely classifies solidarity actions with the Palestinian liberation struggle as anti-Semitic and lumps them in with Nazi attacks on synagogues. They have published scurrilous attacks on anti-fascist groups that oppose their Zionism. They work very closely with the police and should not be trusted with any information you don't want the cops to see. What they are good for is information on actual fascist groups, particularly neo-nazi and specifically anti-Semitic groups. They publish regular reports and it is worth getting on their mailing list. Political Research Associates 678 Massachusetts Ave. Suite 205 Cambridge MA 02139 tel (617) 661 9313 PRA produces reports on the activities of the far-right. One piece by Russ Bellant analyzing the role of fascists in the Reagan administration and the Republican Party is particularly useful. More recently Chip Berlet has sought to expose the cult-like New Alliance Party and the inroads of the racist right among conspiracy-minded progressives, like the Christic Institute. PRA is basically liberal in its outlook, but their research work is very good. -30- ANARCHIST RESOURCES This is a short list of some other anarchist resources. We don't have the space to be comprehensive, so we chose items which cover a broad range of anarchist ideas and activity. PUBLICATIONS Profane Existence POB 8722 Mpls, MN 55408 ($9/6 issues) - an anarcho-punk paper, with band reviews, anarchist news and history, and scene reports Wind Chill Factor POB 81961, Chicago, IL 60681 ($15cash/year) - a creative bi-monthly (roughly) with letters, polemical tirades, some ongoing discussions, reviews, and Chicago and international news Fifth Estate 4632 2nd Ave., Detroit, MI 48201($6/year - 4 issues) - a quarterly paper, somewhat on the theoretical side, with a primitivist angle, news, reviews, letters Anarchy c/o CAL, POB 1446, Columbia, MO 65205-1446 ($12/year and 1/2 - 6 issues) - a quarterly journal, also somewhat on the theoretical side, but with a situationist angle, news, lots of letters, lots of periodical reviews Bayou La Rose c/o Wesley Everest, Educ. Proj., 302 N J St, #3, Tacoma, WA 98403 ($?/?) - news on native struggles, ecological struggles, and more Arm The Spirit c/o Wild Seed Press POB 57584 Jackson Station Hamilton, Ontario L8P 4X3, CANADA ($10/10 issues) - an anti-imperialist, autonomist journal, reports on international movements of armed resistance Ideas and Action POB 40400, San Francisco, CA 94140 ($11.50/4 iss) - the annual publication of the Workers Solidarity Alliance, an anarcho-syndicalist (anarchist union) group, news and analysis about labor, the anarchist movement, the world The Shadow POB 20298, NY, NY 10009 ($10/year) - a monthly (roughly) NY focused newspaper, news on squatting, NY politics, anti-cop work Industrial Worker 1095 Market Street #204, San Francisco, CA 94103 ($10/year) - monthly (roughly) publication of the Industrial Workers of the World (also anarcho-syndicalists), news, letters, analysis, labor movement stuff Rebelles Les Editions Rouges et Noir, CP 205, succursales C, Montré al, Qué bec H2I 4K1 ($10/year 6 issues) - monthly French-language anarchist paper, lots of news and analysis SOURCES FOR LITERATURE Most if not all of these folks will sell you anarchist literature by mail. 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