Anti-Racist Action and the Struggle Against Fascism
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2017
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Mic Crenshaw is a hip hop artist and co-founder of the Anti-Racist Action Network that arose and was active in the 80s and 90s. The ARA is an anti-fascist organization dedicated to community defense against organized racism and fascism. Mic joins Brett to discuss the founding of the Anti-Racist Action Network and to discuss antifascism generally.
Topics Include: ARA, Mic's experience fighting fascists, the differences between antifa then and now, the role of violence in our collective fight for liberation, the Portland train stabbings and Mic's connection to the event and one of the victims, the link between late capitalism and the conditions that give rise to fascism, the white supremacy inherent in policing, and much more.
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| 0:18.0 | Where's the world you night? |
| 0:20.5 | We're educated. We've been given a certain set of tools |
| 0:23.0 | But then we're going to throw it right back into the working class. Well good luck with that because more and more of us are waking the fuck up |
| 0:31.0 | So we have a tendency to what we have we have earned right and what we don't have |
| 0:36.7 | We are going to earn we |
| 0:40.0 | unintentionally I think oftentimes kind of frame our lives |
| 0:44.0 | As though we are you know the predestined people want to be guilt free like I didn't do it |
| 0:49.6 | Like this is not my fault |
| 0:50.8 | And I think that's part of the distancing from like we don't want to admit that this |
| 0:55.5 | is a good thing |
| 0:57.5 | When the main function of a protect and serve |
| 1:00.6 | Supposedly group is actually revenue generation |
| 1:05.0 | They they don't protect and serve |
| 1:07.7 | Simply illogical to say that the things that affect all of us that can result in us losing our house that can result in us not having |
| 1:14.6 | The drinking water why should those be in anybody else's hands? |
| 1:17.8 | They should be in the people's hands who are affected by those institutions |
| 1:21.6 | People engage in to to overcome oppression to fight back and to identify those |
| 1:27.7 | Systems of structures that are oppressing them |
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