They havent done an article on the group itself. https://dallasvoice.com/drag-in-the-suburbs/. It is affiliated with the Pittsburgh Union of Regional Renters and PGH Mutual Aid and fundraises with them. UPDATE: Their twitter account has been suspended. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/tacoma-ice-shooting; https://psjbgc.org/blog/rest-in-power-will-one-year-later/. The masked, armed supporters of the drag show were from the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an anti-fascism group. About Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club Helping marginalized communities in organizing community defense against white supremacists / fascism. WebThe John Brown Gun Club is a leftist gun-rights group originally based in 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. The group supports gun rights and members often openly carry firearms. The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club has also been a resource for journalists, as have related anti-fascist researchers, in identifying individuals who threaten queer and trans communities with violence. 4:37 WebThe Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club ( PSJBGC) is a Puget Sound Area gun club, formerly affiliated with Redneck Revolt. Members of the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club hold a memorial service for van Spronsen a year after his death. We need armed community defense programs in every community. [4] Some of the group's activities are modeled after the Survival Programs pursued by the Black Panther Party and the Young Patriots Organization in the 1960s. 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. * Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club Leaves Redneck Revolt Network, Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, January 23, 2019, https://psjbgc.org/blog/puget-sound-john-brown-gun-club-leaves-redneck-revolt-network/.x Other independent John Brown Gun Clubs have since organized. The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club have taken up opposing the right-wingers attacking Drag shows. We are teachers, loggers, artists, and farmers. It is our mission to encourage, organize, and support these efforts throughout Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. We need armed community defense programs in every community. [3] [4] [5] [6] The club calls itself an " anti-fascist, anti-racist, pro-worker community defense organization". Dirk Burhans has been a member of the club for two years. We have covered swastikas and racist graffiti on walls and under bridges. We still dont know much about them except as we might find out observing their Twitter feed. Some of us are on your towns select-board or fire department. We dont refer here to the constitutional right to bear arms: we are anti-state and do not align ethically with the U.S. Constitution. Meet the Redneck Revolt", "They Hate Racists. It is our mission to encourage, organize, and support these efforts throughout Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. It claims to be a public facing, above ground, armed community defense group that seeks to disrupt fascist activities. 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. WebDonate to the John Brown Solidarity Fund, to support anti-fascist community defense groups nationwide. * Alan Buddug, The Great FB Purge of 2020, Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club, August 20, 2020, http://www.midmojbgc.org/2020/08/20/the-great-fb-purge-of-2020/; Natasha Lennard, Facebooks Ban on Far-Left Pages Is an Extension of Trump Propaganda, Intercept, August 20, 2020, https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/facebook-bans-antifascist-pages/. 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). Formed in 2017, the Rhode Island John Brown Gun Club is a leftist working class community defense organization based in and serving the communities of Rhode Island. A very significant group has entered the affairs of the LGBTQ+ but the community doesnt learn of them until a little over 3 months later. https://www.redneckrevolt.org/single-post/2016/07/28/WHITE-WORKERS-RESISTING-CAPITALISM-AND-WHITE-SUPREMACY-AN-INTERVIEW-WITH-REDNECK-REVOLT. https://twitter.com/SPKJBGC/status/1299637136996663297. We will bash back.. Meet Redneck Revolt", "A redneck revolt? You can use the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive to save webpages which have a risk of disappearing so a permanent record will be kept. Van Sponsen was killed by Washington State Police. [30][31], In August 2017, members participated in protests against Trump's speech in Phoenix, Arizona. x. Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed July 26, 2022. It holds brake light clinics to limit potential interacts with law enforcement, it provides armed security to protestors, and provides support, financial and otherwise to various efforts led by other groups, including a community bail fund and a nation-wide prison strike. [6], The Steel City John Brown Gun Club is a chapter operating in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (We have in our directory of anti-Gay groups a listing of who they are. Join the #1 community for gun owners of the Southwest. https://protecttxkids.org/ This group is organizing the protests against drag shows in North Texas and any effort to make schools a more welcoming place for LGBT. Background[ edit] Background The group is run by Kelly Neidert who constantly is finding something a menace to children. Anderson Distillery and Grill hosted a drag brunch that gained national attention. [9], Following a hiatus, the group was re-formed as a national organization in summer 2016,[5][6] using both the Redneck Revolt and John Brown Gun Club names,[4] with the intention of responding to the growth of right-wing populism, particularly among rural, working-class white people. They were on the strip protecting the community way back on June 4th. We're tackling a specific problem, which is white supremacy, which we find to be built into capitalism". While most of its projects are centered around advocating for marginalized communities, the club offers community range days at a local conservation area. *John Browns Mountaineer Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed August 31, 2022, https://twitter.com/mountaineer_gc.x, Rightwing political candidates and pundits, as well as those on the far-right, blame groups like the John Brown Gun Club, Redneck Revolt, and Antifa for organizing riots and other violent protests against police and municipal authorities while promoting anarchy and societal breakdowns. That same month, the chapter provided security for the 2019 Trans Pride March in Seattle, an event organized by the Gender Justice League. We hope to incite a movement amongst working people that works toward the total liberation of all working people, regardless of skin color, religious background, sexual orientation, gender, country of birth, or any other division that bosses and politicians have used to fragment movements for social, political, and economic freedom. WebJohn Brown Gun Club is an anti-capitalist, revolutionary-activist organization that advocates for gun rights from a left-wing perspective and seeks to radicalize the rural working class. * Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed September 1, 2020, https://twitter.com/PugetSoundJBGC. [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". [23] In May 2018, a member said that at least one third of the group's membership were women, people of color or non-binary people. 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. Join the #1 community for gun owners of the Southwest. Friday 6/24 around 40 heavily armed antifascist activists assembled in the Gayborhood of Dallas to send a message to Christian Fascism: whether that be Influencers, Proud Boys, or SCOTUS. WebThe group supports gun rights and members often openly carry firearms. [6] Its first major mobilization was a protest against the 2005 national conference of the Minuteman Project. Below will be a regularly updated list of fascist/racist violence and threats, police brutality, and the bigotry of public officials. Chapters in Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Washington State. [4] The increased visibility of Redneck Revolt in 2017 has sparked debate among activists over the effects of armed protest and the possibility that the use of guns may lead to heightened violence. Steel City John Brown Gun Club. Twitter.com. WebJohn Brown Gun Club is an anti-capitalist, revolutionary-activist organization that advocates for gun rights from a left-wing perspective and seeks to radicalize the rural working class. A lot of times you can find it at the Internet Archive. [8], The Phoenix, Arizona chapter of Redneck Revolt openly carried firearms outside of the Arizona State Legislature on the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017. Devon Douglas-Bowers, WHITE WORKERS RESISTING CAPITALISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY: AN INTERVIEW WITH REDNECK REVOLT, Redneck Revolt, July 29, 2016. Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club is still fighting anti-drag show protesters. [12]. It is a pro-worker, anti-racist organization that focuses on working class liberation from the oppressive systems which dominate our lives. The Elm Fork John Brown Club twitter has shown ongoing engagement in opposing Kelly Neiderts campaign of attacking drag shows. [16], In April 2017, members attended a counter-protest against groups including the League of the South, the Traditionalist Worker's Party and the National Socialist Movement in Pikeville, Kentucky. Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed September 1, 2020. left". For the Puget Sound-area group formerly affiliated with Redneck Revolt, see, Last edited on 11 December 2022, at 03:19, protests against the Republican National Convention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Redneck Revolt: the armed leftwing group that wants to stamp out fascism", "Kessler, Redneck Revolt agree to end paramilitary activity in city", "They're leftists with guns. We believe the 2nd Amendment is best defended through grass-roots organization, education, and advocacy centered around individual gun owners. Its political positions are anti-capitalist, anti-racist and anti-fascist. Dirk Burhans has been a member of the club for two years. Redneck Revolt was founded in 2009,[1][4][5] partly in response to the perceived contradictions of the Tea Party movement,[1] as an offshoot of the John Brown Gun Club, a firearms training and community defense project that was itself founded in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2004. They fit the description, so it was pretty hard not to include them". https://t.co/L5dpDOhfr6, Pakistani-government forces and the Afghan Taliban traded cross-border fire yesterday, a day after Afghanistans mi https://t.co/t6GCNU0KAO. [1], Silver Valley Redneck Revolt, a local chapter, organized a counter-demonstration against a Ku Klux Klan rally in Asheboro, North Carolina, in May 2017. [3] [4] [5] [6] The club calls itself an " anti-fascist, anti-racist, pro-worker community defense organization". In this tweet you can see they have taken up the road. 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