Stand with GRT (Gypsy, Roma and Traveller) folk against this horrendous bill.
Follow @ResistAntiTresp, share media, talk about it, hit the fucking streets.
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66% percent of British people aren't even aware that GRT communities are a recognised ethnic group and the rampant bigotry runs deep in our culture, not just on the street but in the papers and in the halls of govenance. 2/
There is a vast derth of authorised pitches to the tune of thousands on waiting lists, yet the PCSCB will make criminals of those without a pitch and threatens fines of £2500, 3 months prison ( Even deportation if they can).
This change from civil to criminal response means 3/
That the police are obliged to treat people as criminals out of the bat and have the legal might to do everything they can to enforce this law.
For those who have been to a protest, this is the difference between before and after they've commanded you to disperse. 3/
More than this it means a stoppage of negotiations with councils. These negotiations usually ensure the provision of basic amenities such as water, sanitation and refuse collectio. Standard provision every community should have access too.
But why negotiate with "criminals"?
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The wild thing is, only 21% of police federations support the criminalisation of tresspass. They know what having officers use force against malum prohibitum offenders mearly existing means, and the "crime" that'll follow.
This bill isn't an appeal not to cops, but to racists. 5/
Whether it's denouncement of entire communities as thieves, ghettoisation, demonising for being too wealthy or poor, using anecdotal experience to back up horrific bile, this odious bigotry runs through British culture as thick as marmite. A perennial target for cunts. 6/
Councils especially act with reckless disregard, using the lack of services as an excuse to evict. This despite police federations calling for site provision as the solution to unauthorised encampments to the tune of 93.7%.
I know it's funny seeing anarchists qoute police 7/
but reality is, as institutionally bigotted as they are, they are still telling you that criminalising trespass is a bad call. That better provisions and actually treating fellow members of the community as people is the solution to the perceived problem ie crime. 8/
You see all the "issues" people have with GRT folk stem to the inequality that is forced upon them, and this inequality is used to justify horrific racism and classism.
The manufactured traveller in their head some demonic caricature push on them by the press and state. 9/
In a better world one built upon the foundation of mutual aid and compassion we'd have a plethora of sites, urban and rural, with water, electricity, sanitation and refuse collection. We'd treat people like people and celebrate our diverse lifestyles.
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Until then?
Whether you are an anarchist or no, left or right, wherever and however you live, if you believe in free expression, compassion and community, you must stand together and fight back against the growing police state.
Young Loyalist lads in Belfast chucked one in a bus at a riot yesterday. The Loyalists are the UK nationalists who think Great Britain and the UK gov gives two shits about Northern Ireland. Which they don't. 1/
The other primary faction is the Republicans, who believe in a unified Ireland. Tensions have been ramping up since Brexit, the last week or so has seen nightly rioting in various parts of NI.
The first news or PM response was on night 9ish and only because a bus got torched. 2/
@XRebellionUK smash the windows of Barclay's Bank. It's a definite step for them and frankly it's dissapointing to see lots of "more radical than tho" having a pop at them becuase of their general aggy position towards liberals. 1/
If this was @FrontGreen or some such you'd be clapping along and saying right on.
We don't agree with XR on so many things, heck we've been downright hostile at times but the judgement over specific action should be on the action.
From my perspective the only issues here are 2/
It was done for the sake of theatre of awareness raising (rather than as a tactical decision or situational expression of rage) and that they didn't then scarpper instead choosing to remain and be arrested.
Frankly tho, the arresting works in their favour as it means it 3/
The Red and Black isn't a "flag" in the same way as a national flag, it's symbolism and treatment are different.
No one cares if you burn a RnB. It's just some cloth.
No one takes an oath to it and it inspires no loyality.
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The Union Jack was brought into play to unite the patriotically inclined at a time when the British were deeply divided. It was a consolidation and centralisation of identity, chiefly for the purposes of war and economy. As was the English flag, Scottish flag, etc 2/
These flags are weapons of mass belief, used by those who wish to control you through the use of identity. Nationalism, even when it's utilised to rally against a greater oppressor, is never the soil of genuine liberation.
State socialists lean heavy into these manipulations. 3/
While watching the GameStop stuff has been mildly hilarious (I mean who doesn't like watching the financial elite squirm?) it's pretty clear that a whole bunch of folk have convinced themselves this is ACTUALLY some kind of revolutionary activity. It isn't. 1/
Sure, it's highlighted yet another way in which the bastards profiteer but that's about it, stick it on the pile with the fifty other pro tips to keep the poor, well poor... It's todays banter and tho a few folks might have egg on their faces, literally nothing will happen. 2/
GameStop's three largest shareholders have earned £1.5bn+ during this. They sit at the top of some 200 institutions which are rolling. Meanwhile the ersatz rebels are now watching the bubble, realising there is profit to be made and having a wibble. 3/
Like fuck Twitter etc etc (should need saying really I mean we're the fucking Anarchist Federation) but it's important to understand that their (very late) removal of Trump for "Risk of further incitement of violence" is for reasons.
This is the shite his support are sharing. 1/
Tho he conceded (without saying "I lost") I think pretty much everyone agrees he's quite capable of causing the missing militias and street fash that support him to turn up the 20th and make the Coup Klux Klan look like a bunfight.
Literally know one trusts the fucker atm. 2/
Trumps current situation, and how bad the events played, is already pretty fatal like, just don't underestimate his narcissism.
p.s. Corporate fucks only take these decisions in the interests of their social and political capital.
Look, I didn't like Ashli Babbitt's politics, I laugh at the hypocrisy of the fash's actions yesterday and there is a degree of "oh well".
However it's utterly disgusting that so many comrades across the board are celebrating a police murder 1/
Her death was justifiable by the metric of the stoic libertarian, "she breached a barricade and got shot" or "do stupid things, win stupid prizes", but it is not justifiable by ours.
The state should not go around murdering people. End off.
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Yeah, if BLM and Anarchist comrades tried what they did yesterday they would of been massacred, sure.
The lack of experianced right wing leadership on the street, the police understaffing etc it all stinks, and I get that people hate Trump support and relish schadenfreude 3/