We won

[bcbm]

http://www.channel3000.com/2006/0826/9743056.jpg


Mainstream news:

http://nbc15.madison.com/home/headlines/3744111.html
http://www.channel3000.com/news/9742943/detail.html
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=96468
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4143481.html

More to come. I'm too exhausted to do a write up. In brief:

- We met their busses as they came in
- We drowned them out during the rally and harassed Nazis in the crowd
- We met them on the way out, jeered at them and blocked the road, as well as giving shit to Nazi supporters as they left
- We did jail support and managed to get enough cash ($250) to pay off an out-of-towner's ticket (he couldn't get out otherwise), largely through a $100 donation (fucking amazing!).
- We protested outside the hotel they were staying at and pretty much embarassed the shit out of the hotel. Even more so when the Nazis came outside (briefly).

:banner:

[Rollo]

Nice work, rattle them damn cages :P.

[Qwerty Dvorak]

Capitol police said about 60 Nazis were present at the rally. About 800 people showed up to protest.
:lol: Fuck yeah!

[Dyst]

One of the nazi idiots managed to say the following:

"Revolution by the barrel of a gun doesn't work," Bishop said. "We believe the system still works and we intend to use the system to represent white America."

:lol: Well white america is already pretty present in the current system... So I guess this proves nazis are boring and stupid and has no real political cause.

[RevSouth]

:D Silly Nazi's, rallies are for people with followers!

[which doctor]

I wish I would have gone now :(

[Zero]

hehe

http://www.madison.com/img_x/logo/madcom_inrnav_trim.gif

Closet leftists? =P


Originally posted by "Capital Times"
Heinle ordered the Capitol Building closed at 3 p.m., he said, because of concerns over rowdy behavior by Anti-Racist Action.

Good job guys!

[lithium]

Haha! What a bunch of losers!

Sometimes I actually think that people like this are a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic.

[rouchambeau]

Awesome! I'm glad you all not only hassled the nazis, but made the hotel know how you feel as well.

[bcbm]

Originally posted by Zero+Aug 27 2006, 12:44 PM--> (Zero @ Aug 27 2006, 12:44 PM)
"Capital Times"
Heinle ordered the Capitol Building closed at 3 p.m., he said, because of concerns over rowdy behavior by Anti-Racist Action.

Good job guys! [/b]
The Nazis were escorted through the building after leaving the busses, so ARA did some shouting in there. I imagine they were afraid things would get worse on the way out, especially following the arrests.

[rioters bloc]

8 fascists turned up to this anti-fascist benefit gig i was at last night :/

[violencia.Proletariat]

Is there more protection now for the nazis since Toledo? If not, I don't understand why each of these situations aren't turned into a Toledo by the antifas.

[bcbm]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 03:11 PM
Is there more protection now for the nazis since Toledo?
At the rally itself? Definitely. In Toledo they were able to get within maybe 30 ft of the Nazis. In Madison, the Nazis were some 300-400 feet away, surrounded by high chainlinked fencing. I should note, however, that with a properly combative crowd, we could've fairly easily gotten through.

Their escort, however, was rather unprotected.


If not, I don't understand why each of these situations aren't turned into a Toledo by the antifas.

Numbers. There were perhaps 20-30 ARA there, in total. The mood of the crowd was definitely different as well. In Toledo it was a neighborhood that had been dealing with police racism and violence, and had locals out in force. Madison is a liberal dump full of wishy-washy "peace activist" types. There were definitely elements in the crowd that would throw down, but I think the ARA failed to get enough people to follow them for countering the Nazis as they were leaving.

Definitely things to consider. Perhaps next time you can come out to help? We have plenty of anti-nazi activity coming up in Wisconsin, sadly.

[Delirium]

In Toledo they were able to get within maybe 30 ft of the Nazis. In Madison, the Nazis were some 300-400 feet away, surrounded by high chainlinked fencing. I should note, however, that with a properly combative crowd, we could've fairly easily gotten through.


It was the same in lansing, the nazis were surrounded by multiple chainlink fences, 500 riot cops and about 100 swat cops and 30-40 mounted police. They definatly learned thier lesson in toledo.

bbbg - what dispersal methods did the cops use?

The next NSM rally is september 23 in columbus ohio, i'll try to make it but i'm at university w/ no car.

[bcbm]

bbbg - what dispersal methods did the cops use?

Shoving, backed up by cops on horseback.

[Janus]

Awesome. People definitely need to confront these fascists wherever they decide to rally.

[An archist]

Originally posted by rioters [email protected] 27 2006, 09:03 PM
8 fascists turned up to this anti-fascist benefit gig i was at last night :/
What happened?

[bcbm]

Pics (http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display/47411/index.php)

The Nazi's Report, plus commentary (http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display/47342/index.php)

[Black Dagger]

Originally posted by An archist+Aug 28 2006, 09:56 PM--> (An archist @ Aug 28 2006, 09:56 PM)
rioters [email protected] 27 2006, 09:03 PM
8 fascists turned up to this anti-fascist benefit gig i was at last night :/
What happened? [/b]
Nothing serious, they were blocked from entering/thrown out.

Not sure what they did after that...

Reminds, not to far from where that gig was at... i remember reading some graf, 'smash the workers' and then a swastika, made me giggle, changed it to 'smash racism', and drew a circle around the swastika and put a line through it, suckas!

[bcbm]

Originally posted by Black Dagger+Aug 28 2006, 11:51 AM--> (Black Dagger @ Aug 28 2006, 11:51 AM)
Originally posted by An [email protected] 28 2006, 09:56 PM

rioters [email protected] 27 2006, 09:03 PM
8 fascists turned up to this anti-fascist benefit gig i was at last night :/
What happened?
Nothing serious, they were blocked from entering/thrown out.

Not sure what they did after that...

Reminds, not to far from where that gig was at... i remember reading some graf, 'smash the workers' and then a swastika, made me giggle, changed it to 'smash racism', and drew a circle around the swastika and put a line through it, suckas! [/b]
You should've let them enter and then proceeded to massacre them.

[bcbm]

Originally posted by "MKE ARA"
On the 25th

After more than a month of promotion and trying to persuade people into caring about something so obvious as fascism in our own backyards we managed to attract a relatively small but more experienced group of down ass folk from the Midwest (mainly from Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago). We held a regional ARA meeting the day before the NSM rally to come to a consensus about what we were willing as a group to do and what seemed possible with the numbers present. Since actual confrontation didn’t seem likely with the projected numbers of the police being 500, with the numbers of our small group being about 20 at the meeting, and 3 layers of fencing, our strategies focused on intimidation of NSM members and prevention or at least a delay of the arrival of their police escorted convoy.
On the 26th

We had found out the day previous that the Clarion hotel located on Rimrock road off of John Nolen was housing NSM members. Through coincidence and inexperience we managed to miss them as some of their cars left the hotel grounds to go to where they were being bussed out of in the morning. With this missed opportunity and maybe the best chance for actual confrontation, we had more time until the rally to have meetings, scout the area around the capital, flyer at the farmers market, and get ready.

We positioned scouts along what we thought would make sense to be the most logical routes for their convoy to take from the Clarion hotel. When the convoy got to streets our group was alerted of what street they would be entering the capital square from. When we received the last call, we hurriedly got in bloc, pulled out the black flags, banners and then chased toward the intersection the NSM would be making their way into the capital from. People screamed at the bus of Nazis until they sweat and their foreheads turned red.

At this point there was no real attempt to form a blockade in the path of the convoy. If we would have all made it to that intersection quicker or had more people been a part of the bloc (as many as later on) it would have been possible to put a halt to the convoy for a considerable amount of time. There were many less police on this side of the capital and they weren’t as prepared as they were later in the day when we suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The buses were followed for as far as police would let us into the parking lot of the capital building and they unloaded while the bloc continued to chant anti police and anti nazi slogans at police and nazis.

From here the bloc made it’s way along the capital lawn chanting until it came to a door on the side of the building guarded by two police. The majority of the bloc went into the building running and chanting from the inside. (I wasn’t present here, so I’m don’t know exactly what happened)

After this the bloc made it’s way out of the capital lawn and decided to try to go rally people in the crowd of the scheduled protest area. The bloc was met not with anger and annoyance, but cheers and clapping from those in attendance. Many people, at least 10 people, donned masks or didn’t and joined us in our march through the crowd chanting anti fascist/anti racist slogans. This popular support from the crowd might have helped to keep the arrests of the day to a relative minimum.

A build up of police began forming around us in response to a combination of the bloc surrounding, shouting down a fascist supporter in the crowd and some people attempting to throw rotten tomatoes at the Nazis and then police. In an attempt to reform as a more cohesive and tight group there was some confusion between people in the bloc and the police took this opportunity to grab at least three people from the group. (Details of this are and should be left out for the protection of the people involved) Tension between the bloc and the police was much higher as many more police began forming around the group’s periphery. At this point the bloc decided to move through the crowd who was largely much more supportive of us more than the police and Nazis, to a place where more people would see police harassing us and tolerate it less. Some people decided to take off and rearrange some of their clothes at this point and leave the group for their safety and comfort levels. The bloc after this point kept in consistent motion walking back and forth through the crowd chanting.

When Nazis stopped their rally and went inside the bloc, with many more following took this cue to run around the building to where it knew the Nazis were being bussed out. A human blockade was formed in front of a crosswalk preventing police vans and Nazi buses from leaving the area. This held for a little while until horses were ridden through the crowd and over the bodies and feet of people in their way. (how nice of police to use animals already dominated, and commodified as weapons against others fighting domination). With the blockade broken and trampled the buses were able to pass through. Another person was tackled and arrested for yelling anti police renditions of Ol’ McDonald had a farm into a bullhorn. The bloc then wandered around and followed and harassed a fascist supporter who had been seen in the crowd. After the crowds wandered off and there were no more fascists to pester, people changed clothes and dispersed.

When people met at the public safety building at 4:30pm to support those arrested earlier in the day most of those arrested had already been released. Bail money was raised, with the help of those present and others, for the remaining two and they were out within hours. Food was bought and shared with those in the group outside and waited for those who were held inside (thanks to Chicago).

A protest was scheduled for 8pm at the Clarion hotel to embarrass the hotel and harass the remaining NSM members spending the night there. A few people came and waited around the parking lot that weren’t part of the original bloc and they met with the ARA contingent. Together they stormed the Clarion hotel parking lot flooding into the lobby, banging drums, blowing trumpets, yelling and handing out anti fascist literature (reminiscent of SHAC and IMF World Bank protests). People were asked to leave the property and left, containing their protest to the parking lot and sidewalks until the police came. The police told people they wanted everyone to leave and lied to the group about what they could and couldn’t do. The group having experienced the combination of protest and sidewalk in the past knew the law just as good as any officer would and told them so. Local news came by and filmed the situation carefully leaving the sign or name of the hotel out of the coverage they gave. All the while police had been discussing what to do with the group with their superiors and decided to allow everyone to stay with a large number of restrictions (no yelling, banging on drums, or talking to hotel patrons). So people tired from two days of constant meetings and police beatings and with hours ahead of driving ahead, decided to call it quits. A little after the groups left Nazis cowardly decided to peak their heads outside to see if the antifascists were gone.

For the most part the event was very positive in that regional anarchists were able to work together with relative success in planning and confrontations with police, that an alternative and direct approach for change was presented to those interested in change, the community there was very welcoming and supportive of the bloc (even if for the most part paternalistic), laudable and reasonable (in terms of concerns with safety and numbers) attempts were made at halting the convoys and it was for the most part really fun for those involved. Far more people should have militantly confronted the Nazis or at least wanted to. People can always find better things to do than prioritize a days worth of time for something as incredibly blatant and ridiculously obvious as fighting genocidal thinking. One major thing we can deduct from comparing this event is that having a small, cohesive and experienced group is far better than having a large inexperienced group who cause panic and confusion in times it should be felt by our enemies.

Was it as confrontational as people in the group wanted or should have justifiably been? Definitely not, but it was a step in the right direction toward an ongoing revolutionary praxis. As they say, praxis makes perfect.

Nazis aren’t at the capitol anymore, that doesn’t mean that there still aren’t racists at the Capitol, that we aren’t living on mountains of heaping rotting dead bodies of the ghosts of systematic and cultural racism and domination. This doesn’t go away if we keep ignoring it. Ignoring these problems is the real racism of this society. It is what allows for it to continue happening and it doesn’t end unless we end it ourselves!

Piccies:
http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/disp...47430/index.php (http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display/47430/index.php)
http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/disp...47434/index.php (http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display/47434/index.php)

[Sadena Meti]

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=unclejimbomadcity

This guy uploaded a fair few clips of the protest. Some make great watching.

[bcbm]

Originally posted by rev-[email protected] 29 2006, 01:39 PM
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=unclejimbomadcity

This guy uploaded a fair few clips of the protest. Some make great watching.
Yeah, makes it a lot easier to see some of the tactical failings of the ARA bloc.

[Sadena Meti]

And it may have been a bit mean, but I laughed my ass off when the cameraman said "Help Help I'm Being Repressed!" during the arrest.

[Taevus]

Originally posted by rev-[email protected] 29 2006, 08:33 PM
And it may have been a bit mean, but I laughed my ass off when the cameraman said "Help Help I'm Being Repressed!" during the arrest.
^_^ Which one is that?

[Sadena Meti]

Originally posted by Taevus+Aug 29 2006, 05:19 PM--> (Taevus @ Aug 29 2006, 05:19 PM)
rev-[email protected] 29 2006, 08:33 PM
And it may have been a bit mean, but I laughed my ass off when the cameraman said "Help Help I'm Being Repressed!" during the arrest.
^_^ Which one is that? [/b]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJTNLTIey4I

[bcbm]

Originally posted by rev-[email protected] 29 2006, 02:33 PM
And it may have been a bit mean, but I laughed my ass off when the cameraman said "Help Help I'm Being Repressed!" during the arrest.
Nah, that kid... well, nevermind. Shit-talking isn't cool.

[An archist]

"I think the anarchists won, 'cause they§ got to bang on the doors" :lol:

[Nazi_Punks_Fuck_Off]

Well done! Thank christ people still realise all the shit Nazis have done.

[Zero]

When 6 million people are missing its hard not to.

[RNK]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2006, 04:48 PM
When 6 million people are missing its hard not to.
Not as hard as you'd think, otherwise Nazis wouldn't exist. :mellow:

[Zero]

Originally posted by Ernest+Oct 2 2006, 09:57 PM--> (Ernest @ Oct 2 2006, 09:57 PM)
[email protected] 2 2006, 04:48 PM
When 6 million people are missing its hard not to.
Not as hard as you'd think, otherwise Nazis wouldn't exist. :mellow: [/b]
Yeah, I'm still scratching my head on that one.