Notices by Redoubt Antifascists (redoubtafa@kolektiva.social)

(ADDENDUM: Though we're retiring the project, email will be checked and (ideally) responded to with at least semi-regularity for the foreseeable.

Contact us there if needed in the short term.)

?IMPORTANT PROJECT UPDATE:

As a research collective, we've had the great honor, and duty, of contributing to community defense at a time when fascism and bigotry has been rising at an alarming rate.

We hope that our work has increased safety and livability for the most targeted identities in the region. We also hope that our work has given pause to those who would target those identities. Our collective duty has always been to serve the communities we come from and where we draw courage, strength, and support.

We've had the great joy of seeing communities (seen as easy targets) standing up and defending themselves; people are showing up and turning back hate and bigotry with courage, joy, and determination. We, collectively/regionally, have faced many things together in a very short time: we've always stood strong and faced them together, as a community.

As a research collective, our time together is coming to an end. A lot of things have changed since our work started, a lot of what's been festering in the darkness has been brought into the light. At this point, for the most part: you know what we know.

Some version of this work should continue as long as the threats persist and look to gather strength. As we clear out of our roles, we've invited other researchers to keep an eye on the area in the immediate future. Long-term, there will, hopefully, be more regionally-local community defense research projects that spring up. We're leaving room for them to self-organize autonomously: if/when projects do come along, they will be completely independent of us. That said, we hope to leave our body of work to be drawn from, built upon, and utilized in community defense as needed.

Here's an important collection of antifascist research, independent of social media:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221128234523/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1597317831787704322.html

We encourage everyone in hate-space, fascism organizing, and/or violent, bigoted, extremism to get out now. Joining hate movements is a mistake but continuing in those spaces is a new disaster each day. It'll only get deeper and more extreme: hate is never enough. The entire pipeline is self-destructive, to both individuals and communities. Deradicalize now.

Deradicalization isn't just getting rid of items, signifiers and media that's been used to terrorize communities; that's good but not enough. Deradicalization involves leaving the movement, burning the bridges, and examining the traps that got a person so deep into it. The goal of deradicalization is both for individual improvement and also community improvement; it takes both to make things better.

Atlanta Antifascists puts out a yearly call to leave white nationalism, along with a viable path for doing so. We choose to echo and amplify that here:

https://atlantaantifa.org/2022/01/03/change-your-life-for-the-better-in-2022-leave-the-white-nationalist-movement/

Finally: love, admiration, appreciation, and solidarity to the folks inside and outside of the region who contribute to the project of community defense and antifascism.

Bella ciao, thank you for facing these tough times with us.

Two videos from ANF of the police's riots in Paris, which they started against the victims of an apparent racist terror-attack targeting Kurds yesterday.
https://anfenglish.com/news/french-police-attack-people-protesting-the-deadly-attack-against-kurds-in-paris-64511

The source now notifies that the video of teargas fired in the metro/subway of Tehran's Theatre City was not from now, so I will deleted that toot.

Such things happen with live events.
What's important is that retractions are made, loudly and publicly, to maintain trust in that future errors will be treated similarly.

A good read about recent Pride defenses.

"Far right’s armed thugs unable to intimidate LGBTQ community, thanks to large crowds of defenders"

Grand Prairie, San Antonio, Boise
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/22/2143362/-Far-right-s-armed-thugs-unable-to-intimidate-LGBTQ-community-thanks-to-large-crowds-of-defenders

As Boise officials announce investigation into racist police captain, extremists voice their dismay
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/1/2139506/-As-Boise-officials-announce-investigation-into-racist-police-captain-extremists-voice-their-dismay

@b9AcE very cool info going right into a knowledge gap of mine. Still learning a lot, and this is definitely helpful-new to me. Thank you! Will get up to speed and integrate nitter going forward!

Thread reader link for those who, rightly, hate Twitter and Twitter links ?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1597317831787704322.html

This is a rather long thread of anti fash off-Twitter sites (relevant for documenting fash as well as resources for activists) and we hope to make it even longer. If we missed one ya’ll think should be added, let us know.
Twitter won’t be around forever, but Nazis will always need exposure.

https://twitter.com/RedoubtAFA/status/1597317831787704322