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Saturday March 11, 5 PM: Author talk

Michael Novick, editor of the ARA E-News and of Turning The Tide:Journal of Inter-communal Solidarity is speaking at Village Well bookstore, 9900 Culver Blvd., Culver City 90232 (corner Duquesne).

Michael will be reading from and signing copies of “The Blue Agave Revolution: Poetry of the Blind Rebel” that he co-authored with Indigenous political prisoner Oso Blanco (Byron Shane Chubbuck), and of “No Pasaran! Anti-fascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis”, edited by Shane Burley, in which Michael has a long chapter on lessons from anti-racist and anti-fascist struggles from the 1960s until today. Other supporters of Oso Blanco will also be present with his artwork and t-shirts. Proceeds from The Blue Agave Revolution, and Oso Blanco's cards and other creations will go to support the children's programs he has set up and the autonomous Zapatista communities.

The next scheduled book talk will be at All Power Books, 4874 W. Adams Blvd., LA 90016, 6 PM Saturday March 25.

Boogaloo Boi Becomes Underground Fugitive After Federal Raid on Weapons Cache in AZ

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/boogaloo-boi-porn-star-fbi-extremism-1234693455/

Excerpt:

AN ALLEGED ADHERENT of the Boogaloo militia movement — who is also an aspiring porn star — is on the run from federal authorities following a mid-January raid on his home. The FBI was tipped off that the fugitive was sitting on an illegal cache of weapons, originally stockpiled “in anticipation of taking part in violent uprisings following the 2020 election.”

Eric Scionti, 34, hails from Tempe, Arizona, but he has been in the wind for weeks. According to the federal criminal complaint against him, Scionti is a serial felon — convicted of offenses ranging from “unauthorized discharge of a firearm” and “possession of a forgery device” to criminal trespass and trafficking in stolen property, not to mention a pair of narcotics charges.

Remarkably, Scionti has given the slip both to local authorities and the feds. Maricopa County issued a warrant for his arrest in mid-December for probation violations. The FBI has been seeking to arrest him on the charge of “felon in possession of a firearm” since Jan. 26. An FBI spokesman confirms to Rolling Stone that Scionti remains at large, but insists: “That could change at any time.”

… The Boogaloo Bois are an accelerationist movement. They seek to jumpstart a new Civil War, the violent chaos of which they expect will ultimately purify society. Some Boogaloo Bois are white supremacists; others are harder to peg politically, promoting a strange, utopian anarchism. The movement cloaks itself in irony — the name Boogaloo derives from the much meme’d 80s hip-hop sequel Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. (The unfunny joke here being that the movement seeks Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo.) Movement adherents often wield assault rifles while wearing loud Hawaiian shirts — in preparation for the “Big Luau,” another synonym for civil war.

The search warrant for Scionti’s residence highlights his social media accounts, which are still active. This includes Scionti’s Twitter account, where he goes by the screen name “Kawaii Fascist.” Of interest to the FBI, Scionti tweeted about “ghost guns” — firearms that can be milled and tooled at home, as a means of evading gun laws.

ARA Note: This is a very troubling development because it is a straw in the wind that these forces are building an underground, a clandestine capacity, in addition to their public violence and social media organizing, for the first time since the “leaderless resistance” days of The Order/Bruder Schweigen (Silent Brotherhood).

Benefit Luncheon in Ojai, CA for
Radio Powered by the People - KPFK
Sunday March 19, Sane Living Center
316 E Matilija St, Ojai CA 93023-2724

https://kpfk.wedid.it/campaigns/11259-nowruz-in-ojai/contribute

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