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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAntifa are on the ground in Texas helping relief efforts
When Hurricane Harvey struck Southeast Texas this weekend, bringing torrential rain and severe flooding, scott crow (name intentionally in lower case) knew he had to get to Houston to help evacuate friends. He plans to return to contribute where he can provide relief to the thousands of people who have been displaced by the storm.
This is nothing new for crow.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he and others, like Malik Rahim and Sharon Johnson, set up a system of providing food, water, supplies and basic medical aid to those in vulnerable New Orleans neighborhoods. The organization, dubbed Common Ground Collective, grew to include several health clinics and helped displaced residents move back into their neighborhoods where infrastructure had failed.
But crow and hundreds of first responders in New Orleans in Houston just like him dont come from a government or non-profit background.
Theyre anarchists.
http://reverepress.com/news/antifa-ground-texas-helping-relief-efforts/
Sedona
(3,769 posts)Like the Nights Watch?
BigOleDummy
(2,270 posts)... story. Thank you for posting! Too bad news of this sort can't/won't be picked up and spread by more "mainstream" outlets.
roomtomove
(217 posts)and vice versa? Is everyone getting sucked up and fooled by media soundbytes and labels
Correct me if I am wrong, but I have been to a few peaceful demonstrations, and these guys (mostly guys) show up in the staging area, and change into their black outfits and quickly rush to the front to try to create a disturbance. These are the black block anarchists,...not necessarily antifascists...
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)These anarchists are actually to the right of the white supremacists, KKK and Nazis - they want to tear it all down -and have virtually no government!
It's working.
"Antifa is to free speech rally" as "liberal is to conservative." They are branding that kind of word association again.
Expecting Rain
(811 posts)Violent anarco-communist movements do not deserve cover from us, they've earned rebuke.
They are a gift to the right-wing.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)"Far from it, however, these anarchists and antifascists have been among the first to respond to Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy and now Harvey, doing search and rescue, providing first aid, and establishing shelters in poorer urban neighborhoods and rural communities often overlooked by larger organizations."