Our street team put up 56 more posters on the Pearl Street Mall printed on reclaimed paper.

Graphics by Western Regional Advocacy Project

https://wraphome.org/organizing/wrap-artwork/

#Boulder #BoulderColorado #Homelessness

In two stories about law enforcement infiltration during the George Floyd uprising, @theintercept has referenced our work without attribution.

In their story about Mickey Windecker, we are simply referred to as "an antifascist activist group in Colorado Springs," despite playing a significant role in this story by blowing Mickey's cover and being on the receiving end of his copjacketing.

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/07/fbi-denver-racial-justice-protests-informant/

In the recent story about CSPD undercover April Rogers, we broke the news about her trying to entrap leftists with illegal firearms sales a year ago, but that is never mentioned.

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/21/fbi-colorado-springs-surveillance/

Journalists and editors love to benefit from antifascist work but are often too afraid to credit us when it comes time to publish.

#Antifa #MickeyWindecker #AlphabetBoys #TheIntercept

Over on Twitter people are speculating as to why Americans don't fight back the way the French do.

They're all forgetting that in 2020, tens of thousands of people did fight back, many of whom are doing prison time.

Don't forget those people, supporting them plants the seeds of future revolts.

https://uprisingsupport.org/individual-support/

I've been thinking quite a bit lately about how the refusal or inability to engage with problematic texts/figures from the past potentially contributes to an over-optimistic/rosy view of queer history -- one which aligns with a liberal vision of linear progress (i.e., yeah, LGBT people in the past were oppressed, but things got better over time and now we have general equality, even if some things are still bad).

And it's like... 1.) That's not how history works. It's not a linear progression from total oppression to total liberation, but is way more uneven and fractured. Queer people in the past weren't totally repressed or dominated, and Queer people today aren't entirely equal and liberated;

2.) Any "progress" made for queer people over the last 60 years has been the result of the concerted effort of queer people and activists, and long protracted struggles -- a fact which the linear/progressive view of history covers over;

and 3.) The long, protracted struggles and battles that queer people engaged in to get to the point we're at now also involved conflicts and contestation between queer people themselves. Like, not all queer people were in favour of Gay Liberation after Stonewall. And the lesbian feminist movement of the 70s and 80s involved a TON of conflict and disagreement over literally EVERYTHING. But if we just engage with the ideas that won out in the end, or that are palatable to us today, we ignore all of that contestation and just fall back into the same pattern of viewing history as a smooth, linear trajectory of progress. We also risk thinking of queer and LGBT people (of both the past and present) as a kind of monolith of shared interests and ideas, which again ignores the very real difference between like radical queer activists and mainstream gay assimilationists.

I dunno. I just think people need to be more willing to engage with past thinkers and ideas, even if they are problematic or unpalatable.

Have been doing community organizing work for almost a decade and I am always floored by the people who bring praxis that spans generations of deep knowledge and experience.

Those rad add ass comrades who put together events with childcare, food, focus on accessibility, flexibility, relationship-building, community care, non-hierarchical information sharing... this shit is sacred.

Many blessings to the people looking to generations past and future to drive the essence of your work. Absolutely here to learn from, and collaborate with, that kind of intentionality