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antifascism is community defense, full stop.
antifascists protect our communities, pass it on.
antifascists protect our communities, pass it on.
i think there is some confusion, even among comrades, about what antifascism is. antifascism isn’t a black bloc. black bloc is a tactic. antifascism is an ideology. it looks a lot of different ways. you may not even realize you’re looking at it.
where i live, antifascism is a group of moms in my community standing up to the school board, even after facing brutal police violence and arrests, demanding that children be protected from racial harassment at school.
antifascism is a church in my community sheltering an indigenous guatemalan asylum seeker, protecting her from deportation back to a country where she may well be killed.
antifascism is dozens of people in my community planning alternative programming all summer long to help people heal from an act of domestic terrorism.
antifascism is a massive network of people in my community who meet greyhound buses every day to provide a meal and a kind word to asylum seekers being shipped across the country after being released from detention.
antifascism is a committed group of community activists demanding police accountability, no matter how hard the city tries to kill their efforts.
antifascism is a quiet, decentralized network of researchers monitoring and disrupting the violent far right.
antifascism is a million tiny acts of resistance. antifascism is even just one tiny act of resilience. antifascism is making your community even a little bit easier to survive in for the most vulnerable among us.
antifascism is continuing to exist and to hope and to yearn for a better world as the world we live in descends into an authoritarian nightmare.
antifascism is banal and mundane and slow and boring most days. being against fascism just means living your life in a way that, even for a moment, slows the rise of fascism.
we keep us safe. and there are more of us than they know.
