I'm on the Op side. They made numerous spinoffs when they broke up. They are named things like "Serve the People", "Protect our Hoodz" (actually spelled like that). One is the Mike Ramos Brigade named after a victim of police brutality who's family disavowed the group. They apparently chastised the family saying they didn't understand what needed to be done. Back in June, they organized a march against APD which was basically a rival march of the Austin Justice Coalition which had one the next day. The Mike Ramos Brigade then made a Facebook event to protest Target after the one in Minneapolis got looted. That was so sus.
Before they started nailing pig heads everywhere, and fighting with DSA members, and were known for fighting fascists, I had some respect for them.
Until a comrade who was locally active at the time told me that it was a fiction and they rarely ever defended anything.
A few took pot shots and ran, which ain't a bad thing, tbh. But mostly they did shit to invite the fash into the neighborhoods then took credit for what happened afterwards.
And also a lot of what they did, like in your march example, piggybacked off of other movements, causing confusion and sapping their strength.
I'm on the Op side. They made numerous spinoffs when they broke up. They are named things like "Serve the People", "Protect our Hoodz" (actually spelled like that). One is the Mike Ramos Brigade named after a victim of police brutality who's family disavowed the group. They apparently chastised the family saying they didn't understand what needed to be done. Back in June, they organized a march against APD which was basically a rival march of the Austin Justice Coalition which had one the next day. The Mike Ramos Brigade then made a Facebook event to protest Target after the one in Minneapolis got looted. That was so sus.
Before they started nailing pig heads everywhere, and fighting with DSA members, and were known for fighting fascists, I had some respect for them.
Until a comrade who was locally active at the time told me that it was a fiction and they rarely ever defended anything.
A few took pot shots and ran, which ain't a bad thing, tbh. But mostly they did shit to invite the fash into the neighborhoods then took credit for what happened afterwards.
And also a lot of what they did, like in your march example, piggybacked off of other movements, causing confusion and sapping their strength.
Yeah. A friend of mine said they got the shit beat out of them by fash when the Red Guards were armed.
Yeah. Stoke tensions, then run away. That's what I was told.