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Goooooooooood morning slaves
and welcome to another sedition of
It's the End of the World as We Know it
and I Feel Fine, the show where
the pigs' failed attempts at PR
come back to haunt them.
Cuz you know when the cop lights bling
that can only mean one thing....
♫ I'm tryin to run you down
but we're running at the same speed honey.
I am your host the Stimulator, and
given the rampant levels of Islamophobia
and anti-immigrant hysteria
spreading across the west...
Enough is enough.
Let us reclaim our country.
Stop the mass immigration from
Islamic countries.
No more.
Fuck you, racist fuck!
it can be hard to believe that
just last summer, millions of peeps
around the world were watching
in mothafuckin awe, as tens of thousands
of refugees smashed through the walls
of fortress Europe, bravely fighting
their way past lines of riot cops
in Macedonia and Hungary
streaming across borders,
and eventually ending up in train stations
where they were welcomed by throngs
of cheering supporters,
like exhausted contestants on
the most brutal fucking game show ever.
Tear Gas!
Tear gas?
Congratulations Donny and Jessica!
You are in the finals!
Buuuuuut that honeymoon didn't last long.
Bickering between different European
heads of state, combined with
popular fears of terrorism and
economic uncertainty, and an accompanying
rise in good ol'fashioned fascism,
have led to the re-militarization
of European borders, leaving
tens of thousands of migrants stranded
in squalid refugee camps and detention
centres in countries across Europe.
In other words, shit is bleak as fuck.
And finally they said no way
to go through this border.
This make us feel so bad.... angry.
And shit got even bleaker on March 20th
when a new deal between Europe
and Turkey came into effect.
Under the terms of this agreement,
Europe has outsourced much of its
refugee detention, asylum processing,
and deportation services to Turkey
in exchange for a cool 3 billion Euros,
the resumption of negotiations aimed at
Turkey joining the EU, and
in a sick display of irony,
increased ease of movement for
Turkish citizens in Europe.
And while Turkey has assumed the role
of Europe's border guard,
Greece has been transformed into
a teeming detention camp.
Under the terms of the EU's agreement
with Turkey, and new legislation passed
by Greece's snivelling, back-stabbing
Syriza government,
so-called “irregular migrants” have to
apply for asylum upon arrival in Greece,
or else face immediate deportation
back to Turkey, followed in most cases
by forced deportation back to
the very countries that they were fleeing
in the first place.
In our country is, right now, war.
We don't want to be over there.
For the sake of that very reason,
we've come here.
So if the government agrees to the decision
and sends us back to Turkey,
it's very bad for us.
The problem with this arrangement,
besides the fucking obvious, is that
the Greek state is in fucking shambles
and lacks the proper infrastructure
and support staff to process the thousands
of asylum applications,
provide interpretation services,
and adequately house people
while they’re being processed.
To make matters even fucking worse,
the over 50,000 migrants who
reached Greece before the agreement
with Turkey came into effect
are now trapped with nowhere to go,
with many stating they would rather
kill themselves than be
deported back to Turkey.
If we were to go back to Bangladesh
we would die.
So if we die, we will die here.
You cannot go back to Bangladesh.
No way. No choice.
Back in February Macedonia sealed its
border with Greece, as part of an effort
to close the so-called “Balkan Route”
to Northern Europe.
Since then, a sprawling encampment
in the Greek village of Idomeni,
which serves as temporary home to
over 12,000 trapped refugees,
has been the site of increased tensions
and repeated clashes with Greek riot pigs
and Macedonian border troops.
During one of these protests on April 18th
a 24 year old refugee was
critically injured after being run over
by a Greek police van.
This generalized clusterfuck has played
directly into the hands of Greek fascists,
with Golden Dawn supporters leading
marches and rallies in recent weeks, and
attacking anarchist-run refugee centres
on the islands of Lesbos and Chios.
Greek pigs have worked hand in glove
with their fascist buddies,
launching raids on these same centres,
detaining migrants and
their anarchist supporters alike.
Meanwhile, Austria has announced that
as of June 1st, they will be deploying
their army to the Brenner Pass,
an important border crossing with Italy,
the other main country of entry
for migrants arriving in Europe.
Buuuuuuuut resistance to these proposed
border controls is growing.
On April 3rd, around 1000 activists
with No Borders Europe clashed with the
Austrian riot pigs, injuring at least two
with a similar scene playing out
three weeks later, on April 24th.
And across Italy, a movement called
#OverTheFortress has begun coordinating
local protests and solidarity actions.
As the poisonous fucking ideology
of fascism continues to spread
throughout Europe and beyond,
the stakes are incredibly fucking high.
And if anyone needed a reminder,
they got one on April 18th,
when yet another boat capsized
in the Aegean Sea, en route to Italy
killing over 400 refugees on board.
Fuck all borders.
And the states that defend them.
♫ Sitting at a cubicle,
staring at a screen
playing with the lighter in the pocket
of my jeans....
Let's start a riot... let's start a riot.
I'm tired of trading hours
for so little in return.
Don't wanna take a sick day, man
I wanna watch it burn.
Let's start a riot.... let's start a riot.
I'm gonna get together with 100 of
my closest friends.
When a brick goes through the window,
there's no telling how the story ends.
Another wasted day that's filled
with meetings and reports.
Hey boss I'm leaving early....
there's some cars I wanna torch.
Let's start a riot..... let's start a riot.
Let's start a riot... let's start a riot.
Light it up!
The United Snakes has long been a nation
divided into bitterly opposed camps.
Springfield sucks!
Who you trying to get crazy with esse?
Don't you know I'm loco?
A so-called Melting Pot with carefully
manufactured rivalries overseen by
a heavily militarized state,
itself beholden to a powerful
corporate oligarchy.
From the cola wars waged between
Coke and Pepsi,
to the manufactured cultural divisions
of so-called Red and Blue states,
liberals versus conservatives,
Wall Street versus Main Street,
team Edward versus team Jacob,
Good versus Evil,
or just us versus them,
Americans love nothing more than
to root for their side,
and to shout insults and heap scorn
at their opponents - real or perceived.
You're in big trouble though pal.
I eat pieces of shit like you
for breakfast.
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
No!
After all, this is a country where
every year, thousands of otherwise
normal fucking people dress up in historic
military regalia, and recreate
specific battles from a Civil War
that ended a hundred years before
they were fucking born.
You have a gun. Don't ever point a gun...
this is like a loaded gun.
You have a loaded gun.
So you never ever point it at anybody.
I was gonna... reenact the Dick Cheney
quail accident.
Buuuuuuuut while the nation has always
been big on its manufactured binaries,
in recent months it has reached levels
of polarization not seen in decades,
with both sides hardening their positions
and preparing their forces for war.
Revolution has come.... OFF THE PIGS!
Time to pick up a gun.... OFF THE PIGS!
And as has often been the case
in its sordid fucking history,
one of the biggest, and most
emotionally charged faultlines in
the United Snakes is its racial divide...
and the white supremacist values
that underpin it.
And a lotta white guys....
"Hey man, that's not fair.
You can say whatever you want...
You can say nigger!"
Yeah.... when I last checked that was the
only advantage I had to being Black.
You wanna switch places?
You scream nigger, and I'll raise
interest rates.
And while the question of race is
not entirely a black versus white affair,
there is a rapidly shrinking grey area.
In today's racially charged political
atmosphere, it's becoming increasingly
unacceptable to not pick a side.
You either support
Black and Brown Liberation,
an end to racist police terror
and mass incarceration,
or you support White Pride,
rock confederate flags and
Blue Lives Matter bumper-stickers
and believe that so-called minorities
demanding social equality are either
whiners, criminals, thugs or terrorists.
BOO!
In today's Post-Ferguson America,
the resurgence of Black-led resistance
to police terror has led to
a countervailing movement of
reactionary white supremacist violence.
The racially motivated mass shootings
in Charleston, South Carolina led to
a spate of direct actions, and calls to
remove these racist fucks' cherished
Confederate Flag from state courts,
parks and legislatures,
which in turn helped sparked a resurgence
of the bed-sheet wearing champions
of American racism...
the Klu Klux fucking Klan!
America's at war with Al Qaeda!
But we're still losing the war
against Al Sharpton!
Since then, the Klan has tried
on several attempts to mobilize
their followers,
provoking counter-demonstrations
by anti-racist militants in Columbia,
the Pacific Northwest,
and Anaheim.
On Saturday April 23rd they attempted
to hold a rally at Stone Mountain,
on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia.
All these niggas are instruments of
white supremacy.
They get paid if we go to jail.
They get paid if we go to the grave.
They about to get paid for
being out here to whip our ass right now.
When in every Black community,
three or more in a crowd....
they lockin' us up sayin' we're a gang.
They protect white supremacy. Why is that?
So... to find out what went down,
I recently caught up with Paul,
an anarchist and organizer with
All Out Atlanta.
Hey Paul... how the fuck ya?
I'm doing good.
So... what the fuck went down on the 23rd?
Potentially 400-500 people came to
shut down the Rock Stone Mountain
mobilization... which was organized by
the Klu Klux Klan, Aryan Nation,
some kind of neo-confederate groups....
and yeah, lots of different
organizing groups threw down
against an I dunno, fascist police
erected barricades... set them on fire
blocked the main entrance of
the park at Stone Mountain, where the
event was happening... and ended up
really just crushing the event and
demoralizing the white supremacists'
event.
So it was a real success.
You are a member of All Out Atlanta,
the coalition who came together to chase
the Klan out of Stone Mountain.
What can you tell us about how
this group is structured,
and how the organizing for
this convergence took place?
All Out Atlanta is a kind of
semi-formal kind of organizing initiative
that wasn't necessarily bound together
politically, but is organized around
kind of some ethical principles
about like, how they think things should
be done, and those are listed prominently
on AllOutAtl.com.
It's just a group that had formed in
maybe January of this year, upon the
announcement that this Rock Stone Mountain
event, and began meeting.
Yeah.. just planning for it....
making decisions together.
There's no representatives or leadership
apparatus for AllOutAtl...
It's just normal people brought from
some different walks of life, who
came together to militantly oppose
this event, and do whatever it takes
to make sure it couldn't happen.
Why do the KKK, and white reactionaries
in general have such a fascination with
Stone Mountain?
Seems like there's a bit of history there.
Stone Mountain is the birthplace
of the kind of neo-Klu Klux Klan
in the 20s.
So post-Reconstruction... and so it's
a really important place for them because
they feel like it represents a type of
continuity that they lack otherwise,
being that they've been so obliterated
over the past several decades as
an organized faction.
So they wanna reclaim this area,
partially it's because it's a super
not a majority-white area anymore.
And they're trying to regain some sense of
continuity I guess.
The past few years has seen a resurgence
of white supremacist reaction,
both in Europe and the United Snakes.
Why do you think this is happening?
And what are some of the similarities
and differences in terms of how
this shit is playing out
in different parts of the world?
I do think a lot of why this is happening
in Europe and places like Greece,
and Hungary, and Germany, and Austria,
also in the US.. is because generally
the institutions which once gave
stable meaning for life are collapsing.
The stable positions in the economy,
kind of different citizen rights,
a kind of social democracy, or welfare,
Any state of stable identity is, I think
really being challenged and there's
kind of a global identitarian movement
that's taking different shapes.
That's trying to reconstitute the old
forms of power.
Most of the west... I mean in really all
of the west... that is white power.
That's white supremacy.
We've seen a number of countermobilization
in recent months responding to attempts
by white supremacist groups to hold
public rallies.
In some ways this type of
convergence model is similar to what
we witnessed during the heyday of
the anti-globalization movement.
What are some of the strengths
and potential drawbacks that you see
coming with this type of organizing model?
I think some of the strengths are
pretty obvious.
You can get a large number of people
together to fight a common enemy.
In places like Columbia, South Carolina,
like Georgia, Anaheim, Olympia, wherever.
And this way you can have,
the largest, most fierce resistance
to the police... to the Klan,
neo-nazis, whoever... Trump.. whatever,
his supporters.
So the drawback could have questioned
the oppression. The conspiracy charge
that usually people are unable to drag
the type of power that they experience
in these convergence settings back into
they daily life... then the movement would
just be sucked back into politics
because the powerful are the ones who act.
Threatening the brigade, and like that's
really how it is that we need to be
thinking about.
And I suppose that any protests
runs that same risk....
not just convergences.
Thanks Paul... and
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