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Questions to be Considered Before Chicago

Questions to be Considered Before Chicago

From Medium by Elisha Moon Williams

“What is Bash Back!?”
“What does it mean to resist oppression?”
“What is our purpose?”
“Is our violence of substance or of image?”

These are questions that have ruptured throughout queer anarchist history since the late 2000s. Bash Back! has been called many different things over the years. If you ask 5 queer anarchists, you’re likely to get 6 different answers. Some have claimed that it is a decentralized network of autonomous queer anarchist cells. Others have considered it a gang, a tendency, or even just a symbol. According to certain folks, they’re all of these things and more.

Bash Back! Is Back

Bash Back! Is Back

From CrimethInc.

Reviving an Insurrectionary Queer Network: An Interview

In 2007, in the course of preparations for actions against the 2008 Republican National Convention, an insurrectionary network of queer anarchists formed under the umbrella Bash Back! Over the following three years, this network participated in a vibrant array of confrontations, organizing efforts, and publications, expanding and intensifying the struggle against sex and gender normativity. Today, as fascists and other bigots renew their assault on queer and trans people and anarchists fight back, there is an urgent need for renewed coordination and innovation. In this context, participants in the original Bash Back! network have called for a new Bash Back! convergence in September 2023.

Bash Back! Int'l Convergence 2023

Bash Back! Internation Conference, Chicago, Sept 8-11

From bashback.info

In 2008, queer anarchists gathered in Chicago to plot a disruption of the electoral spectacle and cohere a network out of emergent youth crews in multiple cities. Fifteen years later, the proposals put forward then criminality, autonomous self-defense, riots, and orgies are needed more than ever.

Philly Anarchy Fair 2022

Come one come all to the Philly Anarchy Fair! Have you been yearning to play games, eat vegan corn dogs and learn new shit? Boy oh boy do we have the event for you. We'll be spending the weekend of August 27/28 playing field games, sharing skills, and rejoicing in the fun of all things fair. County fair? Science fair? Ren fair? Create the world you want to live in and stay tuned for more info...

TOTW: Occupy 10 years later

Shock-u-py and Awe-cu-py

Around 10 years ago the first Occupy protest to grab large public attention began on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, New York City. By October, Occupy had setup camp in over 951 cities across 82 different countries, and over 600 spots in the USA. By the end of 2011 and not far into 2012 most of the Occupy spaces had been cleared by the authorities. This week, we’re taking a look back and into the future of Occupy ideas.

January 11th: NYC Anarchist Assembly

We are witnessing a period of incredible social upheaval around the world. The US is not exempt from the political tension and the potential for conflict and substantial change seems more real than ever. In NYC, we also have an extremely tense political situation, with the expansion of the jail system, the ever spreading gentrification, and the largest and most brutal police forces in the country.

With this in mind we are calling for a recurring NYC anarchist assembly to build, strategize and create a formidable anarchist movement in the city that can grapple with the political problems in NY and internationally.

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