On the 5th of September, protesters at the entrance to Supreme Court “Justice” Neil Gorsuch’s private neighborhood called him out for occupying a Supreme Court seat stolen by Mitch McConnell from former President barrack Obama. They also called him out for doing so in a Supreme Court that like his house set on stolen Indigenous land.
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KiwiFarms DEFEATED
On the 5th of September, the DropKiwiFarms campaign announced victory! The anti-LGBTQ/anti-neurodivergent doxxing and hate site kiwifarms(dot)net had just been booted off Cloudflare for “imminent threat to human life,” and less than 24 hours later their backup Russian DDOS protection (DDOSguard) also booted them. Now both kiwifarms(dot)net and kiwifarms(dot)ru are down. This is what you get for SWATTING and for trying to localize and kill a transgender activist holed up in Belfast. This is what you get for blizzards of shooting and bomb threats against transgender civilians-and for thinking you can also escalate to SWATTING a sitting member of Congress and get away with it. So what that the Congresswoman is outright Fascist Marjorie Tayler Greene: KiwiFarms SWATTED her, then tried to claim it for transgender youth, presumably hoping to start a war that would end in many police raids. It didn’t work.
Instead, a campaign lasting just one month has taken down a major terrorist platform responsible for at least three deaths. Who’s the “lolcow” now, Kiwi Farms?
www.dropkiwifarms(dot)net
Seminole County, FL GOP headquarters trashed
On the morning of August 29, Seminole County GOP fascists found their headquarters tagged with “Eat Shit Fascists.” In addition the locks were glued, forcing the GOP MAGAts to break into their own office by the back door. Seems they do everything by the back door…
Some GOP scumbags citing the text of the artwork blamed Biden’s statement calling Trump and the MAGA Republicans “semi-fascist” but millions understand there’s nothing semi about this breed of fascism. The only thing missing is a foreign war of aggression, possibly due to Trump’s bone spurs and “war record?”
When Trump was in office, he put children in cages on the border, some of whom still have never seen their parents again. When he was defeated in the 2020 election, his MAGAt friends attempted to overturn the election by force of arms on Jan 6, 2021. Just this past week two GOP operatives in Arizona issued a call for rounding up LGBTQ folks and imprisoning them in concentration camps. The GOP has banned abortion for about 1/3 of all women in the US, which will kill tens of thousands of cisgender women and trans men and subject millions more to forced pregnancy. Speaking of trans, Texas governor Abbot and Fl governor DeSantis are by legislation demanding forcible detransition for transgender youth, if necessary under the guns of the police and so-called “child protective services.”
Those who bring suffering and death to tens of millions should consider it an act of great forbearance that someone striking back after all that GOP violence chose to limit themselves to spray paint and “extra security” on the front door locks. Wars have been fought over much less than this, for control of oil or a dam on a river.
Armed antifascists block MAGA/Proud Boys from attacking drag brunch
Video by Steven Monacelli: one of the right wingers tries to start shit with the cops, gets no response
On Aug 28, a drag brunch in Roanoke, Texas sold out every last seat in spite of fascists showing up to protest. One of the “protesters” was a Proud Boy armed with a barbed wire wrapped bat. Crazy MAGAts and Proud Boys have stormed drag events earlier this Summer, but this time around, the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club was on the scene, fully armed with modern rifles. Their role was defense against and prevention of far-right violence, and their mission worked. The drag brunch was a huge success and the intended disruption a total failure.
Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club armed and ready if the Proud Boys want violence-Photo by Steven_Monacelli
Drag Brunch 100% sold out! Photo by Steven_Monacelli
Some of the right wing “protesters”- Photo by Steven_Monacelli
Proud Boy with barbed wire wrapped bat. THIS is why the defenders needed guns! Photo by Steven_Monacelli
Protesters at Alito’s house again invoke Matthew Hale and witch burning
On the 27th of August, protesters returned to the N Va home of Supreme Court “Injustice” Samuel Alito yet again. This time around, the protest focussed on Alito’s use of Matthew Hale’s writings as source material for the Dobbs/abortion ruling. Protester, one dressed as a “Halloween Witch” called out Matthew Hale’s executions of women for witchcraft.
These protests take place typically 5 days a week at the homes of all the antichoice “Justices” only the highlights are posted here for volume reasons. Reportbacks on most of them available at https://dcindymedia.org
Photo by Mel
Still from video clip by Mel
Photo by Mel
Photo by Mel
Photo by Mel
Patriot Front Posters removed, burned in Lakeland, FL
Some time before August 23, Patriot Front polluted downtown Lakeland, FL with their usual racist and fascist posters. They didn’t last long. Anti-Fascists activists tore down and burned what was still visible on Aug 23, but the City of Lakeland’s graffiti removal teams and/or local citizens had already taken care of much of the problem. The remnants found on Aug 23 were turned into Patriot Front fondue with fire and a steel pot.
Pro-choice activists protest at White House demanding Biden declare a public health emergency for abortion care
On the 23ed of August, pro-choice protesters showed up in front of the White House with a single demand: that US President Joe Biden follow through with his earlier remarks about declaring a state of Public Heath Emergency over abortion access.
Biden or his advisers have previously floated the idea of declaring a federal state of emergency (similar to what was done for covid) to block anti-choice states from interfering with the mail or the right to travel across state lines for abortion. There has been pressure on Biden to go further and have the Federal government itself provide abortion services off of Federal land.
Many of the anti-abortion states have huge amounts of land controlled by the Bureau of Land Management or the US Park Service as well as sprawling military bases and downtown Federal buildings. All of these are places doctors employed by the Federal government could provide abortion services with likely immunity against state prosecution. States would instead have to attempt to prosecute the Federal government itself and would be “Trumped” so to speak by sovereign immunity.
Photo by Mel
Photo by Mel
Photo by Mel
Protesters disrupt DeSantis “Education Tour” event as Proud Boys glower outside
On the 21st of August, Florida’s religious extremist governor Ron DaSantis held a campaign rally at of all places Metro-Dade Firefighters Local 1403. The rally was for his far-right agenda in the schools and school board candidates he supports. Two protesters managed to get inside and disrupt the event while Proud Boys tried and failed stop more protests from being held outside.
Every time Proud Boys and Fascists attempted to close on the protesters, the cops realized the resulting battle would go poorly for the Proud Boys and the press would be awful for DeSantis. This resulting in cops doing the jobs of anti-fascists themselves, pushing their fellow fascists away from the protesters. Cops made threats of “trespass” events against the protesters, only to have the media “engage with large caliber video cameras” which caused the cops to back off.
Memmbers of the Vice City and Broward County chapters of the Proud Boys and so-called “Moms for Liberty” were spotted outside the event.
Special thanks to Thomas Kennedy for the close-up clip of the disruption inside, nearly in the Governor’s face!
The protest against DeSantis (Photo by Jonathan DeCamps)
We Say Gay!(Photo by Jonathan DeCamps)
Anarchists push into the street(Photo by Jonathan DeCamps)
Proud Boy and J6 defendent Gabriel Garcia poses with the protest against DeSantis in the background. Two middle fingers, zero follow-through
This is the pro-DeSantis counterprotest by Proud Boys and other Fascists. Short man waving ID’d as Alexander Thomas, Chris Barcenasis in the white shirt to the left of him, Chris Nelson (also on the video) in the cowboy hat. On right, older man holding flagis Herbert Silver.
Drenching, flooding rains can’t keep protesters from “Justice” Kavanaugh’s house
The drenching thunderstorms of Aug 10 cut power, flooded roads, and even forced high/swift water rescues. None of that stopped a hard core of pro-choice protesters from getting past all the obstacles to protest at the home of Supreme Court “Justice” Kavanaugh at the usual time and day.
Interestingly, Kavanaugh’s house down payment may have been made possible by a (legal to not report) gift from his father. His father Ed Kavanaugh retired from the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association with a $13 million severence package.
www(dot)motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/heres-the-truth-about-brett-kavanaughs-finances/
Note that one of the things that association tried to do was hold off demands from animal rights protesters that cosmetics not be tested on animals. Many cosmetic companies threw in the towel on vivisection.
www(dot)nytimes.com/1989/08/02/business/cosmetics-companies-quietly-ending-animal-tests.html
There are good reasons for this: Vivisection shares with the government taking control of women’s lives a tendency to attract protesters to the homes of those responsible for it. Anything and everything related to vivisection has quite often been targetted
In other words, Kavanaugh kills women (by denying them healthcare) and his father may have paid for his house by killing puppies (by enabling cosmetic testing at companies like HLS or Huntingdon Life Sciences).
In external links other than the video the . is replaced with (dot) to prevent the sites and potentially their trackers from autoloading. Video is on archive.org w no trackers and no IP address logs retained.
Trangender activists, allies protest as Fl Board of Health votes to deny care to transgender youth
On the 5th of August, the Florida Board of Medicine held a “public hearing” on a proposal by FL Governor DeSantis (AKA DeSatan) to deny all gender affirming healthcare to transgender youth under 18-and bring back so-called “conversion therapy” it it’s place. Outside, transgender protesters and allies staged a press conference and die-in to condemn this deadly proposal. Suicides and deaths from denial of care are going to soar in Florida, and entire families may have to move to gender fugitive sanctuary states (like California will soon be) to escape the governor’s version of “Child Protective Services.”
The hearing itself was eerily reminescent of 2015-era FERC hearings on oil/gas pipeline eminent domain or the MD Inter-County Connector highway hearings. The hearing was a farce, a total dog and pony show with the public shunted off to an overflow room. Public input was duly noted and ignored, and the proposal was passed as no doubt intended from when the hearing was scheduled. This is an extremely common governmental approach in the US: a decision is made, then a fake public hearing with input ignored is held to legalize the predetermined outcome.
As many of the protesters entered the building to attend this so-called hearing, Anarchist and militant Queer activists were blocked from following them inside. Police then became aggressive with them (not on video) and pursued them for several blocks before illegally arresting three activists. The Governor’s “Wizards of Oz” inside no doubt wanted to avoid having the curtain ripped off the true nature of this false hearing.
Although a few DeSatan supporters in hypocritical “let kids be kids” buttons that disregard letting trans kids be ANYTHING showed up outside, the Proud Boys and Nazi flag wavers seen at recent events in Orlando and Tampa were thankfully either nowhere to be found or hiding out of sight. Possibly associating the Governor’s proposal with Nazi flags and Trump’s Proud Boys “SA” thugs was seen as simply generating too much blowback. With the high death rate now forecast for transgender kids, things are about to get very ugly and no doubt violent incidents will ensure as transgender teens and in some cases their parents defend themselves from DeSantis’s gender police. Passage of this proposal is tantamount to a declaration of war on transgender families by the Governor.