Thread: Exclusive — Officer: Left-Wing Extremists Started Sacramento Riot

The left's racism and fascism on display!!!! BAMN's entire platform encourages total Fascism and racism. JMO
Exclusive — Officer: Left-Wing Extremists Started Sacramento Riot



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by LEE STRANAHAN
27 Jun 2016


A California law enforcement officer speaking exclusively to Breitbart News on condition of anonymity said that the group of 30 permitted demonstrators from the extremist Traditionalist Workers Party were physically attacked Sunday in Sacramento by a group of about 400 protesters organized by a group called By Any Means Necessary (BAMN).

While media reports focused on the fact that 10 people were injured after a “clash” between white supremacists and leftist radicals outside the state Capitol, the words and actions of the violent (BAMN) showed that it was a preplanned attack.
Reuters reported: “At least 10 people were injured at a rally outside the California state capitol in Sacramento on Sunday as members of a white supremacist group clashed with counter-protesters, authorities said.”

Then Reuters quoted one of the left-wing leaders:

“We have a right to self defense. That is why we have to shut them down,” Yvette Felarca, a counter-protester wearing a white bandage on her head, told reporters after the clash.

The attack was not “self defense,” as Felarca claimed and the media repeated. In the United States, free speech — even, and especially, offensive speech — is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

The full name of Felarca’s group is The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary — but it is usually shortened to By Any Means Necessary (BAMN).

The group and Felarca herself have a history of gain engaging in violent protest.

In 2012, Felarca was described as a “Northern California Coordinator of BAMN and a middle school teacher in Berkeley.” She was an activist in the Occupy movement and in Black Lives Matter-connected protests at the University of California at Berkeley, where she told the New York Times she thought “militant” actions were appropriate:

“Riots are the voice of the unheard,” said Ms. Felarca, a Berkeley alumna. “You can never replace the lives of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, but you can always replace broken windows.”

Felarca was also involved in the Burlingame, California protest that forced Donald Trump and his Secret Service detail to leave their vehicle:

Activist Yvette Felarca declared victory. “To force Donald Trump to have to hop a fence, to sneak into the back entrance?” She laughed triumphantly. “Yeah, he was humiliated. But it’s not about just today, it’s about building a movement. This is just a beginning.”

BAMN is not a fringe group, however; it has union connections and a penchant for “direct actions.” In an article from 2012 entitled “BAMN Pushes Teachers Unions Toward Radicalism,” the leftist site In These Times talked about the group:

A student-teacher alliance that operates as a joint caucus within the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and National Education Association (NEA), BAMN uses litigation and direct action to combat racial inequality throughout the public education system. Its work ranges from organizing against school closings to fighting for greater black and Hispanic representation at public universities.

Deeper in the article, however, the group’s violent nature and intimidation tactics emerge:

BAMN has critics of its own. The group’s no-wait, rough-and-ready tactics have rankled craft-oriented teacher unionists, federal officials, and segments of the Left who view its brand of militancy as overly divisive. Several teachers and observers (who agreed to comment on condition of anonymity) cited run-ins with pushy or persistent BAMN organizers, or accuse BAMN of alienating potential supporters by inciting physical confrontation at actions or taking overly uncompromising stances.

In that 2012 article, Felarca makes exactly the same claim of “self-defense” while justifying her groups of violent behavior.

“Accusations of violence should be directed against the police or administrators … in instances of confrontation,” Felarca says in response. “We believe every movement has a right to defend itself.”

But aside from their past statements, the dead giveaway that BAMN’s claim of “self-defense” is simply a euphemism for attacking the free speech rights of people they don’t agree with comes from the group’s website.

In an article entitled “NO ‘FREE SPEECH’ FOR FASCISTS!,” BAMN provides Exhibit A against itself and its history of openly planning and carrying out violence.

The leftists of BAMN proudly proclaim they plan to “mobilize in full force” to shut down the peaceful gathering of what it determines are “fascists.” And by fascist, they make it clear that they mean not just National Socialist groups like the Traditionalist Workers Party, but also Donald Trump and anyone they feel is committing racism, chauvinism or anti-Muslim bigotry.

Here’s the chilling document in full:

• SMASH FASCISM! NO PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING RACIST VIOLENCE, MURDER, AND GENOCIDE!
• No Racist Demagogy! No Anti-Muslim Bigotry! No National Chauvinism, Fear Mongering, or Immigrant Scapegoating!
• Latina/o, Black, Native American, Arab, Asian, and White, Immigrants With and Without Papers, We are ALL Californians!
• Open the Borders! Full Citizenship Rights for All Undocumented Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum-Seekers Now!
• Build the New Independent, Integrated, Mass Militant Youth-Led Civil Rights and Immigrant Rights Movement!

On Sunday, June 26, the fascist Traditionalist Workers’ Party, the Golden State Skinheads, and other neo-Nazi/KKK supporters are planning to hold a public recruitment rally on the West Steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento to launch a campaign of racist terror in California. They are not rallying to merely talk and listen to each other and then go home.

They want to use this rally to recruit new members and organize for racist attacks, beatings, murders and genocide. Their immediate aim is to capitalize on the growing political polarization in this nation, most clearly expressed in the presidential campaign of Republican candidate Donald Trump, to turn back the advance of the new civil rights and youth movement that has electrified California and inspired the nation. These racist, would-be murderers have no right to organize their racist violence in California or anywhere. Their rally must be stopped by any means necessary.

Donald Trump’s campaign for president on a platform of open racism, xenophobia, and national chauvinism has given a green light to neo-Nazi/KKK political forces. The far-right wing is on the ascension – they feel it, they’re emboldened, and they’re looking to use Trump’s campaign as a pole of attraction and venue to organize their political program of racist violence on a mass scale and to an audience previously unavailable to them. This has led directly to an increase in racist attacks against Latina/o, black, immigrant and Arab communities across the country.

While Trump’s openly racist positions on immigration, especially against Latinas/os and Muslims, represent a new and dangerous level of extreme right-wing demagoguery, the Democrats hardly utter a peep in opposition, while carrying out their own national policies against the Latina/o and immigrant communities – not in words, but in practice – with the continued raids and deportations and attacks on public education. Only an organized, mass militant, integrated youth-led movement that is politically independent can mobilize the social forces necessary to defeat the Nazis/KKK, stop the rise of “Trumpism,” and finally put this nation on the road to progress once more.

This demonstration will be an opportunity for Latina/o, black, anti-racist white youth and California’s strong and proud majority-minority communities to unite to send a loud and clear message to the Nazis/KKK and their supporters: we will not tolerate organizing of racist and bigoted violence. All who oppose racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, anti-gay and other bigoted attacks should mobilize to show their opposition. A determined opposition prepared to assert our collective power through mass militant direct action can shut these Nazis down and deal the fascists and white-supremacists a decisive tactical defeat.

NO “FREE SPEECH” FOR FASCISTS!

Latina/o and black youth have taken and led angry, direct action of self-defense against Trump supporters’ violent provocations at his political rallies in California and across the nation. The Latina/o communities of San Jose, Costa Mesa, Burlingame, Anaheim, as well Chicago, New Mexico, and Virginia have come out strong and taught racist and fascist Trump supporters about the painful consequences of openly supporting Trump and his political platform of bigotry. Our movement cannot allow his Nazi/KKK supporters to grow in size and number.

“Free speech” does not mean freedom to organize for racist terror, lynchings and genocide. Granting the Nazis a rally permit and providing them with thousands of dollars worth of police protection only perpetuates the long and sordid history of government officials citing “free speech” to protect racists by prosecuting black, Latina/o, other minority and anti-racist protestors who speak up against racism. It is outrageous and despicable that the City of Sacramento is planning to roll out the red carpet and spend huge sums of taxpayer money to ensure that the Nazis are able to rally while at the same time city and state workers are constantly being threatened with furloughs, layoffs and cut backs. If not for the protection of the Sacramento police and county sheriffs, these murderous scum wouldn’t get out of their cars – let alone hold a recruitment rally – when confronted with a massive, militant counter-protest. Whether Governor Brown or Mayor Johnson decide to protect the Nazi/KKK rally or not, we must mobilize in full force to stop their campaign to expand Jim Crow and build a right-wing racist, anti-immigrant movement in the United States.

WHY PROTEST THE NAZI SCUM?

Some people will say: “Ignore them, stay home, they are too small to be a threat, protesting against them will give them the publicity they want”, etc. Those encouraging this kind of “do-nothing” strategy are either naive fools or deceitful traitors. Ignoring the Nazis/KKK gives them an open platform to recruit, consolidate their organization and build their campaign. If we do not organize to protest at the same time and same place as the Nazis/KKK, then the only people in attendance will be those who are considering joining their ranks. We must be there to make sure that anyone sympathetic to their message is unable to hear it and has an extremely discouraging day.

By having a massive anti-racist, anti-fascist protest at the State Capitol on June 26, we will make sure that any publicity or news coverage of the day will show thousands of Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab and anti-racist white youth fighting for progress. If we stay home and allow them to have an open platform, any media coverage they receive will portray an unopposed successful event at which a small group of determined, proud racists were able to boldly assert themselves, recruit new members and advance a new campaign for racist terror and ultimately genocide. This is a scenario we cannot allow to happen. Instead, the racists must be sent scurrying for their cars as they are confronted with the strength of California’s powerful Latina/o and black communities. That is not the kind of publicity the Nazis want.

BUILD THE INDEPENDENT POWER OF THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT!

The growing polarization and ongoing economic and social crisis will continue to bring new forces into struggle.

In California, more than any other state in the nation, our new civil rights and immigrant rights movement has shown that we have the social power to change everything. Los Angeles had the largest civil rights demonstration in the country’s history, 2 million people shutting down business as usual during the 2006 movement for immigrant rights. Black youth led the mass, militant uprising in Ferguson, MO after the police murder of Michael Brown and inspired a wave of demonstrations and protest action against racism and racist police murder and brutality that swept the nation.

The Latina/o and immigrant communities of California are the most dynamic political force for social progress and equality today. Our movement desperately needs a new generation of fighters and activists to come forward now and develop as independent political leaders for the movement. By learning from struggle, drawing political lessons from history, and utilizing the method and tactics that assert our collective power, a new generation of leaders can ensure our movement’s victory.

The fascists exploit the discontent and economic hardship experienced by white, downwardly mobile middle-class and working-class youth. They offer fake, radical sounding solutions to the growing problems of unemployment, poverty and economic insecurity in the U.S. today.

The fascists scapegoat and call for attacks on the immigrant, Latina/o, black, Muslim, Jewish, and LGBT communities and against the trade unions, leftists, and other progressive organizations.

To this torrent of cynical racist lies, our integrated civil rights and immigrant rights movement must counter pose real, working-class solutions to the economic and social

crisis. Latina/o, black, Native American, Arab, Asian, and white, immigrants with and without papers, we are ALL Californians! Open the borders! Full citizenship rights for all undocumented immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers now! Build an independent, integrated, mass militant movement of the oppressed to fight racism, sexism, anti-LGBT and all forms of bigotry, national chauvinism, and xenophobia.

Our aim on this day must be to build our new movement. We must take matters into our own hands. Some will want to use this day simply as a means to contribute to the votes of the Democratic Party, whether that be for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. We cannot be distracted by that. Only the independent power of our movement can defeat the far-right forces of reaction. We need to make clear to every fascist and fascist-sympathizer promoting white supremacy and racist violence that they will face militant, organized, and determined opposition. This is our fight to make and our future to win.

http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/06/27/sacramento-bamn-violent-leftist-behind-bloody-sunday-words/

Looks like their main office is in Detroit. Is this where the lawsuits should be sent?

Contact BAMN



Contacts:

Michigan- Metro Detroit-Ann Arbor- East Coast
Kate Stenvig
313-575-9329
kate.stenvig@ueaa.net[/EMAIL]

Northern California-San Francisco Bay Area- Sacramento Capital Region
Yvette Felarca
510-502-9072
yvette.felarca@ueaa.net

Southern California- Los Angeles Metropolitan Region
Hoku Jeffrey
323-317-7675
hoku.jeffrey@ueaa.net[/EMAIL]

Mailing Address:

BAMN
P.O. Box 7322
Detroit, MI 48207
General Inquiries:
National Coordinator
855-275-2266
email@bamn.com

All of their email addresses are Connected to the United for Equality & Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund.

After reading the manifesto, it appears that the riots at the Trump campaign events were all coordinated by this group. Could they be held liable for the felony assaults and violations of the First Amendmentrights of that were committed against innocent American citizens ?

United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund (UEAALDF)is a coalition of student organizers, activists, and attorneys committed to achieving integration and equality in America. This requires organizing and providing legal support to a new mass, integrated, youth-led civil rights movement that unites black, Latina/o, Asian, Pacific Islander, Arab, Native American, and white in a common struggle for equality. Affiliated with the college, high school, and middle school student organization BAMN (Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary), UEAALDF successfully conducts legal action and organizes protest to achieve its aims. From 1997 to 2003, UEAALDF spearheaded the historic pro-affirmative-action student intervention in the landmark Grutter v. Bollinger case and organized the 50,000-person March on Washington that succeeded at getting the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in colleges and universities throughout the nation. We stand at a crucial juncture in race relations in America. Either we revive the struggle of Martin Luther King for genuine integration and equality, or we witness a New Jim Crow—a new, more hypocritical version of separate and unequal under the guise of "post-racial" politics. Contribute to UEAALDF today to move America forward. UEAALDF is comprised mainly of student and youth activists who abound in leadership ability and determination, but lack adequate financial support. Below is more information about UEAALDF's current work. UEAALDF is a 501(c)(3) organization. Checks may be made out to UEAALDF and mailed to P.O. Box 24462, Detroit, MI 48224. Credit card donations may be made online [link to donation site]. You are also encouraged to become a UEAALDF official sponsor by making a monthly donation at whatever level is right for you – just download, complete and mail in the attached form [click for form]. Defending Affirmative Action and Integration UEAALDF has been fighting in the courts and in the streets to stop the right wing's effort to affirmative action and the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. In Arizona in summer 2008, a small group of student activists with BAMN (an affiliate of UEAALDF), working on only a shoestring budget, defeated a multimillion-dollar fraudulent ballot petition drive by California Republican Ward Connerly that aimed to qualify an anti-affirmative-action initiative for the state ballot. This stunning victory was achieved through petition blocking and public protest, and speaking out about the initiative's fraud and racist aims. UEAALDF is now pursuing a federal lawsuit that can overturn state bans on affirmative action in California (Prop 209), Washington (Initiative 200ntar), and Florida (One Florida Initiative) and strengthen affirmative action and integration nationwide. In November 2006, UEAALDF filed a federal challenge against Ward Connerly's anti-affirmative-action Michigan constitutional amendment, Proposal 2, and is organizing educational tours to mobilize students across the country to win this case. See UEAALDF's videotaped deposition of anti-affirmative-action activist Ward Connerly In December 19, 2008, UEAALDF scored a victory defending the voluntary K-12 school desegregation plan of Los Angeles. UEAALDF mobilized hundreds of students and won the right to enter the case on their behalf, and argued aggressively for the preservation of Brown v. Board of Education. By using this method Ending Separate and Unequal Treatment for Immigrants: We Are All America Justice for Jesús Gutiérrez On April 29, 2009, Jesús Gutiérrez, a UC-Berkeley custodial worker and rank-and-file union activist, was arrested by university police and reported to ICE immigration authorities. UEAALDF is organizing to stop his deportation and to establish UC-Berkeley as the nation's first sanctuary campus, forbidding its police from collaborating with ICE. UEAALDF is giving leadership to the potentially immense and powerful struggle for immigrant rights, organizing youth action to win the Dream Act, win a national Cesar Chavez Holiday, and to establish sanctuary schools and cities across the country. After BAMN student leaders organized walkouts in Los Angeles public schools on Cesar Chavez's birthday demanding that the school district honor the state's official Cesar Chavez holiday, the district voted March 24, 2009 to establish the holiday. UEAALDF's current work to win the California and Federal Dream Acts (which would end the discriminatory denial of college financial aid for undocumented immigrant students) is an opportunity to advance the struggle against racism and for equal educational opportunity in America. defeat these attacks. On the legal front, we have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court defending K-12 desegregation [click for brief -- Abobe PDF file] Summer Leadership Project 2009 In summer 2009, UEAALDF is holding the Summer Leadership Project (SLP)to train student and youth leaders from across the country in the political knowledge and skills they need to be mass leaders of their schools and communities. Studying and looking critically at the examples of great leaders from the past such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Frederick Douglass, the students in SLP learn the methods that are crucial to building the new civil rights movement today. We Need Your Support Stopping Racist Police Brutality: Justice for Oscar Grant On New Year's Eve 2009, Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old father and resident of Hayward, CA, was murdered—on videos which have been viewed across the nation—by transit police, shot in the back while lay face down in full compliance. UEAALDF is organizing a community movement to win justice for Grant and stop the official effort to secure the police officer's acquittal. Please make a generous donation today. UEAALDF is a 501(c)(3) organization. Checks may be made out to UEAALDF and mailed to P.O. Box 24462, Detroit, MI 48224. Credit card donations may be made online [link to donation site]. You are also encouraged to become a UEAALDF official sponsor by making a monthly donation at whatever level is right for you – just download, complete and mail in the attached form [click for form]. IRS regulations on the political activities of 501(c)(3) entities can be summarized in three simple rules: You can educate the public about political issues and encourage voters to vote. You may issue position papers to the media and work with local coalitions or partnerships on issues of public importance. You can educate and register voters—so long as you do this in a non-partisan manner. You may engage in a limited amount of lobbying. Lobbying is defined as advocating for or against specific pieces of legislation. Your lobbying activities must be an “unsubstantial” portion of your overall activities. The IRS has not provided a guideline for exactly what is “unsubstantial,” but experts generally agree that up to 5 percent is acceptable.(3) If you wish to engage at a higher degree of lobbying, you may file an election to be judged on an expenditure basis.(4) Grassroots lobbying activities are an acceptable way to engage in public debate, so long as they remain an “unsubstantial” part of your overall activities. You may not engage in partisan political activity. You can do nothing that advocates for or against specific candidates for public office or their political parties. This includes fundraising on behalf of candidates and donating meeting space, among other things. Election-related activities such as candidate questionnaires and forums are acceptable, so long as all major candidates are invited to participate and they are fair in their presentation.