hey, so in the spirit of stopping the ARA's slacking i was thinking we could brainstorm on how we could make this group much more active.

you know the way i see it right now we have a commited group of folks that when nazis or other fascists that are willing to throw down, we have a commited group that'll shut down meetings and we can easily organize folks to shout out rallies. this is the easy shit. it's important, it's amazing but it's easy.

i would love to see us work on actually confronting racism in stead of just racists. so, how can we do this?

how do we work against racism in milwaukee?

Some general ideas I have would be to make milwaukee a place where racism, instituationally, individually and otherwise is in no way tolerated, and is eliminated from and in our daily lives. We have to build up a culture and community where racism is fought against, where racists should be affraid to organize or exist in. People in Milwaukee should be following up on and working to stop local organizing done by facist and racist organizations, intervening to show the racist nature of institutions and organizations which are much harder for us to individually or locally combat, showing solidarity with struggles and people who are blatant victims of racist groups, institutions (such as the state) and otherwise, general community building and sharing information, working on developing a bigger base of people willing to combat racist and fascist organizations, etc.

People made some other suggestions on another post in the ARA section too. I think we should be making copies of anti-racist zines more and distributing them, and at least print the patches we made screens for and sell them to be able to pay for future organizing.

Showup to every possible event where racism comes in to play and make ourselves public, we'll be able to gain numbers and appear to be more than just a radical group that counters fascism in radical ways. I think it would be cool for ara to respond to every blatant racist act by the mke pigs. Naw mean y'all?

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fuckinghalfhead wrote:

Showup to every possible event where racism comes in to play and make ourselves public, we'll be able to gain numbers and appear to be more than just a radical group that counters fascism in radical ways. I think it would be cool for ara to respond to every blatant racist act by the mke pigs. Naw mean y'all?

I think racism exists everywhere so to show up to "events"and try to counter it seems a dubious struggle. I think we need to be working on racism that's far less obvious. To me racism is so insidious because so many people are convinced that they're above it or that it doesn't exist for them. I think that having a strong anti-racist zine library and information dispersal is really vital. I think if people wanted to meet in realspace to discuss ways in which to reach a broader community that'd be rad too.

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well i meant more along the lines of things like police brutality events, hip hop events, church based activism, countering fundamentalist dickbags wherever they go. I think witch hunting fascism isn't cutting at the root of the problem enough personally.

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