STOP THE FBI! STOP THE CIA! STOP THE U.S PATRIOT ACT!
SUPPORT RAISE THE FIST! JAN 24, 2003!
Raise The Fist is an anarchist independent media/direct action network providing an alternative form of radical media, opinion and information. On Jan 24, 2002, 25 heavily armed FBI and Secret Service agents raided the home of Raisethefist.com founder, Sherman Austin, under the new U.S Patriot Act. Since Sept 11, the U.S has intensified it's war against anarchists, activists, and people all over the world. With the new war against the people of Afghanistan, war against the people of Iraq, with roundups of hundreds of Iranians and middle-easterns, an intensified war against people of color, with the intensified war against political descent. The U.S has declared war against our communities locally and internationally. It is time to say ENOUGH!
Jan 24, 2003 will mark the 1 year anniversary of FBI / Secret Service raid on Raise the Fist. There will be a demonstration at the same Federal Building where the FBI Agents work, who lead the investigation, and conducted the raid. Join us on Jan 24th, as we send our message loud and clear.
When: Jan 24th, 2003
Where: Westwood Federal Building
(11000 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024)
Time: 3:30pm
After reading the content of indymedia L.A., one gets the impression that ANSWER and NION are BAD... all because of their connections to communist groups.
But on the same website... there is much tolerance of, and organizing for... the so-called "Raise the Fist" website... which published, and got busted for posting bomb making instructions.
So, let me get this straight. Commies who organize peace demonstrations and avoid violence at all costs, are BAD people. And those who advocate violence, publish instructions on how to make bombs, and call themselves "Anarchists"... are worthy of our praise and support?
Hey, commies are violent too. Just look at the maoists in Nepal. One of their routine strategies is to ambush police posts and kill every police officer in site. Stalin was violent, so was Lenin. The webmaster of raisethefist.com (an anarchist) has never been convicted of a violent crime. It appears to me that you side with the law on this one rather than providing any argument legiable on the grounds of debating princples and tactics between anarchists and communists. . Just because someone is being prosecuted by this abusive government, you automaticly assume the government has justification for doing so? The same government that's been droppnig bombs and killing 1.5 million innocent Iraqi's for the past 11 years. The same government that guns down it's own people in our streets for the color of their skin, criminalizes and prosecuted our youth. Raisethefist.com obvioulsy has a different philosphy, and expresses it's self more radically than groups like ANSWER, or NION. But if you want to talk about violence, communists have a much greater history of it than any anarchist does.