Ignatiev argued that "in this society those who share our material conditions, our neighbors, our family members, our friends, the people working alongside us, usually reflect which race they (and we) are assigned to" and contended that "[t]he goal is not to defend the white community but to abolish it, and along with it all communities defined by racial preference or oppression". It is affiliated with the Pittsburgh Union of Regional Renters and PGH Mutual Aid and fundraises with them. John 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. [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. Join the #1 community for gun owners of the Southwest. . Steel City John Brown Gun Club. Twitter.com. We need to be ready to rapidly respond to the armed right wing threat that menaces our communities. They did a lot of reporting. [1], Their political influences include the 19th-century abolitionist John Brown,[13] the Young Patriots Organization[1][5][14][15] the Deacons for Defense and Justice[7] and the Rainbow Coalition, an alliance formed in Chicago in the 1960s between the Black Panther Party, Young Lords and the Young Patriots. 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. [6], The group attributes their use of the word "redneck" to the time of the Coal Wars, a series of labor disputes in the United States occurring from around 1890 to around 1930, when the word became popular among coal-miners. [14][17] Members view the right to bear arms as connected to the necessity of overthrowing the 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. [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. This isnt about approving or disapproving what the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club believes or does. 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. There are still some John Browns around, but most transitioned as the org fell apart. It identifies itself to be anti-capitalist/-racist/-fascist/-patriarchy, pro-worker, and without a hierarchy, instead claiming to operate through direct democracy. The group additionally states it seek[s] the abolition of policing and prisons. [5], The chapter claims to operate a mobile soup kitchen and provide volunteer support at a local soup kitchen. 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. 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. Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, Twitter post, August 18, 2022, 8:23 p.m.. Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, homepage, accessed August 19, 2020. [9] They describe their purpose as follows:[9]. We still dont know much about them except as we might find out observing their Twitter feed. WebThe Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club ( PSJBGC) is a Puget Sound Area gun club, formerly affiliated with Redneck Revolt. There are still some John Browns around, but most transitioned as the org fell apart. No mention of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club. We believe the 2nd Amendment is best defended through grass-roots organization, education, and advocacy centered around individual gun owners. They were on the strip protecting the community way back on June 4th. [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". On its website, Redneck Revolt explains that John Brown Gun Club consciously conceived of itself as an outreach group to the white working class to prevent them from becoming foot soldiers of capitalism by adhering to a politics of white supremacy. [4], The Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club is one of the major chapters of the John Brown Gun Club. what the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club believes or does. John Brown was a famous abolitionist in American history and died fighting slavery. [41] The lawsuit identified Redneck Revolt and the Socialist Rifle Association, an anti-fascist group that defends working-class people's right to bear arms, as "private militia groups [that] helped create and secure a staging area for counter-protestors". [16][17] The group sees itself as part of a tradition of white working-class "rebellion against tyranny and oppression". 4:37 We need armed community defense programs in every community. *Chauncey Devega, Doomsday? 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. Meet the Gun Club Patrolling Seattles Leftist Utopia. The Daily Beast, June 14, 2022. But it might have been careless editing. When anti-Gay individuals want to hide things that they said they delete pages. 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. * 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, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/tacoma-ice-shooting; Rest in Power, Will, One Year Later, Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, July 13, 2020, https://psjbgc.org/blog/rest-in-power-will-one-year-later/. https://dallasvoice.com/protesters-hit-the-strip/. Others deliver Meals on Wheels, volunteer with refugees, and are involved in other community projects. 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. [T]he Redneck Revolt model of Libertarian Socialism reveals important things, and should be an important part of the U.S. Left. Stragglers are more susceptible to getting arrested, but its hard to do that to a larger group. Over the past five years, we have run taillight clinics, where we check and (if needed) replace taillights. * Kim Kelly, If others have rifles, well have rifles: why US leftist groups are taking up arms, Guardian (London), July 22, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/22/if-others-have-rifles-well-have-rifles-why-leftist-groups-are-taking-up-arms.x, https://psjbgc.org/ http://www.midmojbgc.org/, Facebook (Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club) (deleted), Twitter (Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Steel City John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Spokane John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Connecticut John Brown Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Bay State John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Rhode Island John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Elm Fork John Brown Club), Twitter (Green Mountain John Brown Club), Twitter (PDX John Brown Club), Twitter (Cedar Breaks John Brown Club), Twitter (DMV John Brown Club), Twitter (John Brown Mountaineer Gun Club), Medium (Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club), Gun Club chapters do not publish their membership numbers. Its us, the Green Mountain John Brown Gun Club. [41] In June 2018, a group of members of clergy asked the city and the other plaintiffs to remove Redneck Revolt from the complaint. 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. In August 2020, Facebook deleted multiple accounts affiliated with John Brown Gun Clubs as part of a purge of extremist groups. Chapters in Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Washington State. [7], During the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in 2016, Redneck Revolt published a pamphlet addressed to members of right-wing militias that argued there was no reason why "the white working-class [should] find solidarity with rich white ranch owners against the government, but not working-class people of color defending their own land and community". So some of these tweets will have broken links. *Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed July 26, 2022, https://twitter.com/MidMoJBGC.x As of September 1, 2020, the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club had 12,700 followers. WebThe group supports gun rights and members often openly carry firearms. One group, Redneck Revolt, came into existence after it split off from the gun club. On March 1, 2022, the Philippine army launched a predawn raid on a base belonging to the ISIS-linked group Daulah Islamiyah. We need armed community defense programs in every community. The John Brown Gun Club is a leftist gun-rights group originally based in Kansas. Its no surprise the defense industry is full of fascists, but the fact theyre not hiding it anymore tells us they believe this is good marketing. Back to the story about the. states. Kuhn argued that "organizations with the aim to primarily mobilize and organize among the white working class are mandatory if we don't want to simply abandon this part of the population and hand it to the right on a silver platter". Its political positions are anti-capitalist, anti-racist and anti-fascist. [1] For instance, around 30 percent are people of color. Join us in Dallas to stand united against the escalation of violence by auth-right. Founded in Kansas in 2009, members were present at several protests against Donald Trump and against the far-right in 2017. 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. About, Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club, accessed September 1, 2020. [1], The group's website includes statements in opposition to capitalism, the nation state, white supremacy and "the wars of the rich" and advocates a "right of militant resistance". [14] Also in June, members were part of a protest against the Christian conservative organization Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which coincided with a speech by Mike Pence to celebrate the group's fortieth anniversary. We need real formulated responses for the upsurge in reactionary and racist violence. This is the Dallas Voice reporting on what happened. left". This is the tweet by the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club about their actions. * Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed September 1, 2020, https://twitter.com/PugetSoundJBGC. We need to be ready to rapidly respond to the armed right wing threat that menaces our communities. John Brown Gun Club is a name shared by dozens of groups who have similar goals, and who participate in similar activities, but we speak on behalf of only ourselves: we are not affiliated with any other John Brown Gun Clubs. WebJohn Brown Gun Club/Redneck Revolt. *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. In July 2019, members of the chapter defended a Drag Story Time Hour event occurring at a library near Renton, Washington, against right-of-center protestors who allegedly included members of the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters. [6] Its first major mobilization was a protest against the 2005 national conference of the Minuteman Project. Anderson Distillery and Grill hosted a drag brunch that gained national attention. He was killed after attempting to blow up the detention center. x Members who have spoken publicly, including chapter founders, did not provide their full names. It is a pro-worker, anti-racist organization that focuses on working class liberation from the oppressive systems which dominate our lives. Get the latest news on extremism and counter-extremism delivered to your inbox. A lot of times you can find it at the Internet Archive. According to that group, the John Brown Gun Club seeks to disrupt fascists and fascist organizations and events. 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. The masked, armed supporters of the drag show were from the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an anti-fascism group. 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). Meet Redneck Revolt", "A redneck revolt? 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. WebThe John Brown Gun Club is a leftist gun-rights group originally based in Kansas. * Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed September 1, 2020, https://twitter.com/PugetSoundJBGC. After pointing his rifle at four officers and refusing to drop his gun, the officers opened fire on Van Spronsen. Rather, our work springs from the understanding that liberation cannot rely on nonviolence alone, and from the reality that those who wish to harm us are both well-trained and heavily armed. 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