The Gun Club arms itself to defend against far-right violence and often appears as a security force at protests to protect against expected far-right violence. Van Sant has also identified three lessons that Redneck Revolt offers to the American left, namely that working-class white people "are not inherently conservative"; that the group's success is drawn from their critique of modern American liberalism, including on firearms issues; and that they do not employ the rhetoric of white privilege, diversity or inclusion, but instead "position themselves as part of working class and white rural communities" and "act in solidarity with oppressed peoples". While Protect Texas Kids has been allowed back on twitter. WebThe Rhode Island John Brown Gun Club. No mention of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club. [25] Members often view the practice of openly carrying guns as a political statement that intimidates opponents and affirms gun rights. White Workers Resisting Capitalism and White Supremacy: An Interview With Redneck Revolt. RedneckRevolt.org; originally appeared in The Hampton Institute and Its Going Down. We need to abolish the police., Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, tweet, July 9, 2022: The John Brown Gun club is at it's core founded on abolitionist points of unity. * Alan Buddug, The Great FB Purge of 2020, Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club, August 20, 2020, http://www.midmojbgc.org/2020/08/20/the-great-fb-purge-of-2020/; Natasha Lennard, Facebooks Ban on Far-Left Pages Is an Extension of Trump Propaganda, Intercept, August 20, 2020, https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/facebook-bans-antifascist-pages/. [1] The geographer Levi van Sant has argued that the group's ideology is a form of libertarian socialism. Each local is unique, for better or worse. [12] Local groups use both the Redneck Revolt and John Brown Gun Club names. John Brown Gun Club On the Showdown in Virginia on Gun Control Filed under: Anarchist Movement, Interviews, Radio/Podcast, The State, US Red Strings and Maroons Red Strings and Maroons podcast speaks with a member of the Steel City John Brown Gun Club about the upcoming January 20th mobilization against new gun control legislation in Virginia. At that point it is unavoidable. WebThe John Brown Gun Club is a leftist gun-rights group originally based in Kansas. Approximately 10 trad-catholic fascists / groypers and five Proud Boys at Haggard Park in Plano right now protesting North Texas Pride. [9] They also do not consider themselves an antifa group. [10] The use of the term is also intended as a form of subversion or reappropriation. * PSJBGC at the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair 2019!, Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, November 16, 2019, https://psjbgc.org/blog/psjbgc-at-the-seattle-anarchist-bookfair-2019/; See Us Today at Debbie Bookchin's Speaking Tour!, Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, November 2, 2019, https://psjbgc.org/blog/see-us-today-at-debbie-bookchin-s-speaking-tour/. *Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, Medium account, accessed August 31, 2022, https://medium.com/@efjbgc.x The Gun Clubs presence at protests across the United States has garnered international media attention. We may sound familiar you may have heard of other John Brown Gun Clubs in the news. So what is the point of reporting all this? On its website, Redneck Revolt explains that John Brown Gun Club consciously conceived of itself as an outreach group to the white working class to prevent them from becoming foot soldiers of capitalism by adhering to a politics of white supremacy. [4], The Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club is one of the major chapters of the John Brown Gun Club. We are not a big tent organization: people who support capitalism and authoritarianism of any kind are not welcome in the Green Mountain John Brown Gun Club. We hope to incite a movement amongst working people that works toward the total liberation of all working people, regardless of skin color, religious background, sexual orientation, gender, country of birth, or any other division that bosses and politicians have used to fragment movements for social, political, and economic freedom. We are not afraid. Redneck Revolt is an American far-left socialist[1] political group[1][2][3] that organizes predominantly among white working-class people. [6] Its first major mobilization was a protest against the 2005 national conference of the Minuteman Project. We see this as part of our work, because this revolution is happening everywhere, every day, in every act of solidarity with our ever-intertwined communities. * Kim Kelly, If others have rifles, well have rifles: why US leftist groups are taking up arms, Guardian (London), July 22, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/22/if-others-have-rifles-well-have-rifles-why-leftist-groups-are-taking-up-arms.x New John Brown Gun Club chapters continue to emerge across the country. Firearms are a big part of the mid-Missouri chapter of the John Brown Gun Club. The masked, armed supporters of the drag show were from the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an anti-fascism group. However, it should be noted that the Dallas Voice in their article called them the Elm Fork John Brown Club, omitting the word Gun from their name. https://www.redneckrevolt.org/single-post/2016/07/28/WHITE-WORKERS-RESISTING-CAPITALISM-AND-WHITE-SUPREMACY-AN-INTERVIEW-WITH-REDNECK-REVOLT. John Brown 1800-1859, PBS, accessed September 1, 2020. Their event training people to harass school districts runs until 130. If others have rifles, well have rifles: why US leftist groups are taking up arms. The Guardian, July 22, 2019. While not affiliated with other John Brown Clubs across the country, they do have the same goals but prefer to speak for themselves. We need armed community defense programs in every community. It is a pro-worker, anti-racist organization that focuses on working class liberation from the oppressive systems which dominate our lives. Your email address will not be published. Although the fash looked and acted ridiculous; its important to expose the extreme violence and threats the community was attacked with on that day. And it was important, an armed group had formed to defend the LGBTQ+ and had paraded down Cedar Springs. Something big happened on The Strip, the stretch of Cedar Springs with the Gay bars. This is the link to her website. https://archive.org/, https://web.archive.org/web/20221031122236/https://firepit.campstrategic.com/vm.cfm?i=4E4743CE98FDAB0D. *David Weigel, On the campaign trail, many Republicans talk of violence, Washington Post, July 23, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/24/republicans-civil-war-midterms/.x In November 2020, counterinsurgency and military strategy expert David Kilcullen told Salon that while groups such as Redneck Revolt and the John Brown Gun Club claim to be defensive and seek to protect people on the streets from violence, the fear they evoke can also be a trigger for violence. This is the tweet by the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club about their actions. Dirk Burhans has been a member of the club for two years. Copyright 2023 InfluenceWatch. [8], The Phoenix, Arizona chapter of Redneck Revolt openly carried firearms outside of the Arizona State Legislature on the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2017. Steel City John Brown Gun Club. Twitter.com. About Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club Helping marginalized communities in organizing community defense against white supremacists / fascism. To date, Gun Club members have reportedly not engaged anyone with their weapons during one of these protests. You can see it had 7,883 likes and was retweeted 1,550 times. Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club, homepage, accessed September 1, 2020. Van Spronsen was a resident of Vashon Island, Washington, who claimed to be affiliated with Antifa and who had written and distributed a political manifesto prior to the attack. But it might have been careless editing. "[25] Rothschild noted that "contemporary social movement studies have begun to center groups that span multiple identities and causes, and movements like Redneck Revolt suggest exactly why that matters. The original club was active between 2002 and 2008, but it has since given rise to spinoff groups such as the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club. Community defense is the implementation of the revolutionary philosophy that the working class and otherwise marginalized communities have the right to protect ourselves and our interests. In 2019, an anarchist whom police claimed had previously associated with the Puget Sound chapter of the group attempted to carry out a terroristic act on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility before he was fatally shot by police officers. Please. We need real formulated responses for the upsurge in reactionary and racist violence. [23] Redneck Revolt does not have leaders[12] and does not offer a detailed blueprint for political action. Members of the Antifa group John Brown Gun Club have started a GoFundMe after having their weapons stolen at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club @EFJBGC Armed antifascists were met by cheers and were joined in marching by random patrons of the Gayborhoods famous Strip, which had been targeted by over 50 violent self-described Christian Fascists led by John Doyle and Kelly Neidert just three weeks before. [30][31], In August 2017, members participated in protests against Trump's speech in Phoenix, Arizona. They did a lot of reporting. https://psjbgc.org/blog/say-hello-to-spokane-john-brown-gun-club/. We need armed community defense programs in every community. Its members train at a gun range regularly and holds workshops to train its members in firearm use. [24] The group's membership grew during the 2016 presidential election[8] and following the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A mob of self described Christian Fascists tried to force their way into a gay establishment in the gayborhood of Dallas holding a family event while chanting Groomers. Armed Insurrectionary Anti-Racism [26], In May 2017, a member said that Redneck Revolt had reached out to groups such as the 3 Percenters, a predominantly right-wing group, with whom they have some common ground. * Kim Kelly, If others have rifles, well have rifles: why US leftist groups are taking up arms, Guardian (London), July 22, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/22/if-others-have-rifles-well-have-rifles-why-leftist-groups-are-taking-up-arms.x, https://psjbgc.org/ http://www.midmojbgc.org/, Facebook (Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club) (deleted), Twitter (Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Mid-Missouri John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Steel City John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Spokane John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Connecticut John Brown Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Bay State John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Rhode Island John Brown Gun Club), Twitter (Elm Fork John Brown Club), Twitter (Green Mountain John Brown Club), Twitter (PDX John Brown Club), Twitter (Cedar Breaks John Brown Club), Twitter (DMV John Brown Club), Twitter (John Brown Mountaineer Gun Club), Medium (Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club), Gun Club chapters do not publish their membership numbers. Its political positions are anti-capitalist, anti-racist and anti-fascist. We recognize that while community defense includes firearms safety and training, it is a part of a bigger system, and it is only effective in conjunction with efforts to keep people sustainably housed, fed, healthy, and free. [6][7] In the early 2000s, John Brown Gun Club members operated anti-racist stalls at gun shows in Kansas. Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club. Psjbgc.org. what the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club believes or does. Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, Twitter account, accessed September 1, 2020. We dont refer here to the constitutional right to bear arms: we are anti-state and do not align ethically with the U.S. Constitution. All Rights Reserved. John Brown Gun Club is an anti-capitalist, revolutionary-activist organization that advocates for gun rights from a left-wing perspective and seeks to radicalize the rural working class. We have cut and split cords of firewood for people in need. https://dallasvoice.com/protesters-hit-the-strip/. WebThe group supports gun rights and members often openly carry firearms. An ugly protest today. While the CHAZ has instituted its own form of unelected security throughout the area, the John Brown Gun Club has been one of the groups to spearhead the effort. WebJohn Brown Gun Club is an anti-capitalist, revolutionary-activist organization that advocates for gun rights from a left-wing perspective and seeks to radicalize the rural working class. [1], John Brown Gun Club is comprised of multiple local chapters allegedly without a national leadership or hierarchy. Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, Twitter post, August 21, 2022, 3:57 p.m., https://twitter.com/EFJBGC/status/1561442268388671488. A lot of times you can find it at the Internet Archive. It holds brake light clinics to limit potential interacts with law enforcement, it provides armed security to protestors, and provides support, financial and otherwise to various efforts led by other groups, including a community bail fund and a nation-wide prison strike. [6], The Steel City John Brown Gun Club is a chapter operating in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This event is to publicly denounce the Klan, their beliefs, and show that we will not back down". [1], The group's website includes statements in opposition to capitalism, the nation state, white supremacy and "the wars of the rich" and advocates a "right of militant resistance". The Dallas Voice doesnt mention them in an article until Sept. 2, 2022 when it is basically unavoidable. The history of the white working class has been a history of being an exploited people. [10][16] In a Facebook post, the group said: "We need to let the Klan know that if they leave their enclaves there will be a broad response from the community. 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