“Live Free, Ride Free, Fuck NYPD”

A Report from a Mass Fare Evasion in New York City

https://crimethinc.com/RideFreeNYC

On Sunday, September 15, New York City police officers shot live rounds at random into the L train at the Sutter Avenue station at the border of Brownsville and East New York, Brooklyn. They were pursuing a Black man who had allegedly skipped the $2.90 fare. They shot him and two unfortunate bystanders—one in the arm, one in the head.

On Wednesday, September 18, hundreds of people gathered at Union Square to carry out a mass fare evasion in response to this heinous attack.

Support a Black Protester Assaulted while Defending Housing Rights

https://chuffed.org/project/114004-support-a-protester-assaulted-while-defending-housing-rights

As inflation, price gouging, and skyrocketing home prices have affected the nation, the city of Seattle has become increasingly hostile to low-income and middle-class populations.

#seattle #activist #blackactivist #blacklivesmatter #hatecrime #assault #homelessness #unhoused #homeless #housingrights #housing #affordablehousing #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #blackmutualaid #blm #activism #blackmastodon

So the origins of the grotesque lies about Haitian immigrants come directly from the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe.

Blood Tribe, founded by esoteric Hitlerist loser Christopher Pohlhaus, is the group that's been marching around Ohio and other parts of the country with Swastikas and screaming "Sieg Hiel" and waving guns at immigrants while shouting at them to "go the fuck back to Africa".

So apparently Laura Loomer, JD Vance, and great replacement bandwagoner Charlie Kirk are the least racist players in this situation.

Blood Tribe member Drake Berentz, giving a racist pseudonym, even testified to the Springfield city council before being ejected.

It is noteworthy how much the dehumanizing, visceral elements of this edge on the ancient antisemitic trope of blood libel (beloved by neo-Nazis). Vance knows this. And these vicious lies about Haitian immigrants spread from Nazis on Telegram and Gab to Donald Trump on the presidential stage in about a week or so. The extent to which the MAGA dominant right is picking up what Nazis are putting down... let's just say the need for proper antifascist research and action is not becoming any less urgent.

References: The Guardian (Stephen Starr), NBC News (Brandy Zadrozny), @rebeccawatson, etc

#BloodTribe #ChristopherPohlhaus #DrakeBerentz #SpringfieldOH

Trump and the entire right-wing eco-system are working to push baseless racist conspiracy theories about Haitian people living in #Springfield, #Ohio. This is leading to bomb threats against local schools.

"Parents picked up their children early from two elementary schools in Springfield, Ohio on Friday, in response to information received from local police. The closures followed another early closure the day before, Fulton Elementary School, after it was named in a bomb threat inspired by social media rumors about the Haitian immigrants residing in Springfield. It was just one of many torments the city’s residents have faced since they became the unwilling subjects of a racist moral panic. This is not the first time serious threats have spawned out of the online media ecosystem surrounding former President Donald Trump and the broader MAGA movement, and it certainly won’t be the last."

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-vance-springfield-ohio-haiti-cats-rcna170934

"Close Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer told a white nationalist conference in 2022 that she considered herself a “white advocate”, according to a recording of the speech obtained by the Guardian."

Reporting from @jasonwilson in the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/trump-ally-laura-loomer-audio