#JBGC
Here's a statement from a member of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club (JBGC) who was just found not guilty of assaulting cops while keeping fascists at bay during a drag performance in Ft. Worth, Texas, in April 2023.
It's short, but here's an excerpt:
I don’t want to mince words here. We watched for days as cops took the stand to lie, consistently contradicting each other and more wildly often misrepresenting and lying about the very things we were all watching together on screen. We watched as the accusations that Christian-fascists have long levied against me were methodically broken down to the lies they were.
After four full days of enormous tension the state sealed their fate when they marched a wall of cops into the courtroom to stare down the jury while they read my charge. After less than 45 minutes, I heard those beautiful words: Not Guilty.
#ACAB #Antifa #JBGC #PoliceBrutality #LGBTQ #Drag #fascism #Texas #FortWorth
https://intlantifadefence.wordpress.com/2024/08/17/important-case-updates/
The Madison, WI #JBGC is run by tankies. This is your warning
@Litzz11 Exactly that is the problem!
But instead the put like a dozen UCs into #SRA & #JBGC and try to #AgentProvocateur them into felonies...
Small range day to welcome two new prospective members of the club. One had their first opportunity to try out the AR platform and did great! Support what we do by buying some badass stickers: CTJBGC.org #jbgc #rangeday #communitydefense
The spike over the past year in confrontations at Drag shows and brunches has been a galvanizing force for some. Images of armed leftists defending such shows have done a lot for organizing, and while it's worrying how necessary such action has become, the trend of community defense is hopeful.
However, I can't help wonder what comes next. As more state governments are enacting bans on trans care and drag, the threat has escalated. What happens when the angry anti-trans mob appears outside a drag brunch, this time bolstered with cops? Does armed leftist defense dissipate with the threat of state violence?
We can't tolerate oppression like this, but how many blink in the face of such escalation? We need community defense more than ever, in whatever form it takes.
"Theory's cool, but Theory with no practice ain't shit." - Fred Hampton April 27, 1969
(Image: Fred Hampton photographed from below while smoking a cigarette standing next to an unnamed black woman)
Here near the end of #blackhistorymonth let's not forget. The liberation for all people that Chairman Fred fought and died for will not be achieved by internet discourse or navel gazing while maintaining perfect fidelity to your particular ideology. You gotta get out in the real world and improve some material conditions or at least build some community offline. Join the #IWW #JBGC #sra #HPNGC #FoodNotBombs or SOMETHING and get out into your community and DO SOMETHING.
Finally, the post also talks a bit about recent growth of armed leftist community-defense groups.
We saw John Brown Gun Clubs at 29 events in 2022, up from 7 in 2021 and 5 in 2020; and we saw Socialist Rifle Associations at 7 events in 2022, up from 2 in 2021 and 0 in 2020.
Notably, we also saw 14 different named JBGCs at those 29 events in 2022, up from just two in 2021 and 1 (Puget Sound) in 2020.
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#Solidarity, and may the soul of John Brown go marching on!
"Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States, is none other
than the most barbarous, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of one portion of its
citizens against another portion, the only conditions of which are perpetual
imprisonment and hopeless servitude, or absolute extermination, in utter
disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in
our Declaration of Independence." - Captain Osawatomie John Brown
After Colorado Springs shooting, Twitter bans pro-gun pro-LGBTQ group https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/25/colorado-springs-club-q-twitter-john-brown-gun-club/10765911002/
Hooray it's #FollowFriday!
Lots of folks have joined in recently. A special welcome to all the #JBGC and #SRA groups joining. We are so happy to see you here.
@SDSRA
@psjbgc
@maryland_sra
@SRC
@SraWyoming
@Kentuckiana_JBGC
@rgvjbgc
@DenverJBGC
@tmjbgc
December 13, San Antonio, This is Texas Freedom Force is coming to bully the LGBQT+ community. Join us telling them to "FUCK OFF". #JBGC
#DRAG
#communitydefense
Some members of our chapter and the Self-Defense Brigade got together this weekend to train in hand-to-hand combat to defend ourselves against violent fascists in CT. #weprotectus #jbgc
“You have well-meaning liberals talking about #guncontrol when it’s clear we really should be talking about community self-defense.” -Kelly Wright
https://soundcloud.com/nonserviammedia/non-serviam-podcast-23-kelly
