For nearly nine months, Tenacious Unicorn Ranch, a safe haven for trans and queer Coloradans, faced violent threats from right-wing extremists. Until, that is, they turned to their local anarchists for help.
Based anarchists.
But the final straw came the evening of March 5th, when two groups of men quietly traversed the quarter-mile dirt road to the front gate of the ranch. One pair were caught by the night guard around midnight, fiddling with the light and lock on the gate. Several hours later, two more people clambered across a field, flanking toward the main house. “Our guy James [a pseudonym] spotted them. He hit them with a spotlight, and told them, ‘Remove yourselves, or die.’ And they ran like jackrabbits. I credit him for potentially saving our lives that night,” Penny Logue tells me. “It was a literal wake-up call.”
Holy moly that’s scary.
I’m glad they’re doing okay now.
Edit: this looks like a good website. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
That's great to hear. I remember people mentioning this place last year.
"So far, however, the best defense has been solidarity, not bullets." :doubt: I think it's the ARMED solidarity and a lesson that all orgs need to be ready to project strength to make all the fash piss themselves running home.
Grab a some guns and comrades and head down to the range today, armed resistance gets the goods.
Wait, the alt-right FUCKING LOST!? How is that possible?
Sure, they are amoral monsters but I always thought they were invincible superhumans armed to the teeth that outnumbered the left to boot.
in Portland they regularly broke and ran when faced with the hardened BLM protesters during the summer of protests, they need overwhelming numbers and police protection for the most part
Whoa, didn't know that. Lol.
I change my mind, these dipshits wouldn't last ten seconds against the people's liberation army.
Their trick is showing up armed and feeling powerful because the left protesters aren't, but when the left protesters show up armed in large numbers the right wingers are just a cartoon outline of their dust and grime while they run away
Yep. Fascists are cowards and bullies at heart. They won't face personal risk for their cause because they're not fighting for any higher purpose.
Well everything they believe tends to be dead fucking wrong on pretty much every level so I guess that is also the case for what they believe about themselves.
In addition to being trans, Logue, Nelson and Stanley are self-identifying anarchists, which has made them a particular threat to some observers (including a local blog that righteously deemed Tenacious Unicorn “left-wing fascism… xenophobes full of hate and obsessed with violence”).
The leftism understander needs to log the fuck off.
Hell yeah, shows the importance of community defense
That article was a much-needed ray of light this morning. Thanks for sharing. Also, i hope they succeed in building more spaces like that:
The long-term plans are shifting, too. They’ve nixed previous goals to expand the ranch on site, instead shifting their fundraised dollars to support a new rural project for indigenous queer people in Arizona, in a similar model to Tenacious Unicorn. And as these early partnerships continue to grow, Nelson says they want to help facilitate a network of safe spaces across the country.
When people on here say that just getting a gun isn't enough, that queer and other marginalized people need armed community self defense, this is what we mean. Stand together, folx. We're stronger than the fash.
