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Barr Statement Gives 'Greenlight' for Further Police Shooting -
A group of Portland based anti-fascists believe authorities have the “green light” to “use whatever force they want” after police killed a man who was under investigation for the shooting death of a member of a far-right group.
Police killed Michael Reinoehl, 48, in Lacey, Washington when trying to arrest him in connection to the death of a member of the “Patriot Prayer” far-right group. One police force says that while attempting to arrest Reinoehl, he pulled a gun threatening officers, but law enforcement accounts of the shooting are so far inconsistent.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr released a statement on Friday that described Reinoehl as a “a dangerous fugitive, admitted Antifa member, and suspected murderer.”
“Murdering someone basically in cold blood is a pretty clear instance of retaliation against political opponents by a state apparatus, and Attorney General Barr has already released a statement in which he basically praises law enforcement for having made Portland safer by executing Reinoehl rather than allowing him to escape,” the group said. “So it does seem as though law enforcement both regionally and nationally are being given the green light by federal and state authorities to basically use whatever degree of force they want in their interactions with anyone designated either an anarchist or ‘antifa.’”
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Anonymous asked: I am thinking about getting in contact with my local antifa crew, but I'm physically disabled and everything in the 'going to protests, punching fascists'-category is, really, really out of question for me (besides I am really just a giant liability tbh), so I always felt like antifa wouldn't *want* me to get involved ... any thoughts for what disabled folks could do (and how to make antifa more ... idk, approachable? Because a lot of the common rhetoric is pretty alienating)
Anon goes on to say: Sorry, clarification re: disabled folks: I’m mostly over the alienation, but a lot of my disabled friends aren’t; that’s not a problem inherent to antifa, thought, but with all of left-wing rhetoric. The left in general has an issue with excluding disabled issues in my experience. We’re just really *inconvenient* to think about and include, despite being one of the groups severely impacted by right-wing violence, you know ._.
We definitely hear you, Anon. The good news is that despite the rhetoric & media coverage, 99% of anti-fascist work isn’t going to protests & punching nazis - it’s the kind of things that anyone should be able to take on.
Like we said when we were asked a similar question 2.5 years ago, equally-important antifa work is about doing a thousand other things to protect the communities targeted by bigots; building an authentic anti-fascist/anti-racist youth culture; and it’s about doing everything possible to fuck up fascists’ plans as much as we can.
As you’re probably realizing right now, that can mean any number of things - the list of antifascist actions anyone can take regardless of physical, emotional, or mental ability is limitless! So where to start?
1) Read this and also this and think about what hate looks like where you live.
2) We started this tumblr to report on antifa activity all around the world and we’ve been doing that for over two years now. Read through our archive and find actions and ideas that inspire you and would work for your situation.
3) Last year, we published a list of 30 antifa actions we thought were within the reach of just about anyone to take on. We believe that at least two-thirds of those ideas would have definite potential for a disabled anti-fascist (pay close attention to numbers 1,2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30!).
4) Sometimes antifa work can look like calling out antifascists when they’re excluding disabled antifa and not paying proper attention to disability issues and fights. Doing so can only strengthen the movement.
Every one of us can do something to move antifascism forward.
To move forward, antifascism needs every one of us to do something.
We would love to hear from some disabled antifa in the comments about the work they’re putting in where they live! HINT HINT!!!
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