Posted on 06/09/2026 5:53:35 PM PDT by Libloather
As its national influence has risen, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has simultaneously grown more extreme. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the group’s “Red Rabbits” initiative.
The Red Rabbits Security Commission, a subgroup within the DSA focused on “community defense” efforts, is, according to its authorizing resolution, preparing for a “national uprising against federal agents and police brutality.”
In practice, that means training cadres in tactics like armed and unarmed self-defense, blocking intersections, and fighting “fascists” with umbrellas.
A recent panel offered an unprecedented window into what the project looks like. Organizers from Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Tucson, Austin, and Portland compared notes.
As the discussion made clear, the DSA is trying to construct a nationwide security apparatus to support its expanding role in street protests and direct-action organizing. And in so doing, it fears drawing the attention of the Internal Revenue Service — likely with good reason.
Safe name
The DSA launched the Red Rabbits Security Commission at its 2025 national convention.
Organizers chose the deliberately innocuous name as a nod to the novel “Watership Down,” in which anthropomorphized rabbits are outnumbered and beset by enemies. Earlier branding proposals, including “National Vigilance Committee,” were deemed too politically stark, with some members concerned that they could be interpreted as an endorsement of vigilantism.
The Red Rabbits claim their focus is on five core security skills: de-escalation, Stop the Bleed (a first aid training on bleeding control), firearm safety, unarmed self-defense and protest marshaling (crowd management during demonstrations). The commission has set a goal of having at least five members in 40% of DSA chapters complete these trainings.
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Years ago I read a book written by a guy who belonged to a very radical offshoot of the Black Panthers.
His group was planning a violent overthrow of the country. But they finally decided against it. The deciding factor wasn’t the strength of the army or the strength of the police.
It was the strength of the NRA. Lots of average Americans with lots of guns.
Just something for those “Red Rabbits” folks to think about.
Larry Grathwohl on Weather Underground’s plan for killing millions of American
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEMG5I_56Q4
They haven’t gone away.
Lots more
America needs a Pinochet.
It’s time to go full Pinochet, before it’s too late.
Like Antifa, the Red Rabbits are just another group of Communists.
Sorry, I forget sometimes not everyone knows that.
CC
There’s no such thing as a peaceful Revolution. Socialism requires Violence because no one willingly obeys the socialists. Perhaps they have captured enough Institutions (ngo, judiciary, LEO) We’ll find out soon enough,
... Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals” encourage his disciples to take Control of Education & Healthcare, promote Class & Race Warfare, create Endless Debt & Poverty, ban Religion, initiate Gun Control, eliminate the Second Amendment, prevent Freedom of Speech, and increase the Welfare rolls to control large segments of the Refugee & Illegal Alien populations. The Marxist planks in “Rules for Radicals” encouraged Liberals to become Socialists, and to mask their Socialist and Communist beliefs by identifying themselves Progressives. Alinsky believed, like Vladimir Lenin, that Socialism is the bridge to Communism. ...
Kill the wabit
With my spear and magic helmet.😗
I guess I’m just too slow.😜
Prepare the water cannons, Feds. We’re tired of this crap.
I don’t think these morons really understood Watership Down.
They’re all the same. Communists just change names constantly to make prosecuting them more complicated, and to provide ships for each of their numerous narcissistic dictator wannabes to captain.
Yeah, Netflix’s diluted and twisted version. BBC remake Watership Down with less violence to avoid 'scarring' children UKTelegraph ^ | 4/28/16 | Hannah Furness, Arts Correspondent Posted on 4/28/2016, 6:21:09 PM by originalbuckeye
It was the film that traumatised a generation of children, with its much-loved rabbit characters slain on screen in graphic and memorable scenes. But the story of Watership Down is to be remade for a new era, as programme-makers promise to tone down its most brutal images. The BBC has teamed up with Netflix for one of the most expensive mini-series ever made for the small screen, and the first animated four-part drama of its kind. The new version stars the voices of James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult as Hazel and Fiver, Sir Ben Kingsley as General Woundwort and Star Wars star John Boyega as Bigwig.“While we won’t shy away from the darkness in the book, visually it won’t be as brutal and scarring.” Rory Aitken, executive producer The show’s executive producer told the Telegraph the 2017 version will not just tone down the levels of on-screen violence to make it more appropriate for children, but give a boost to its female characters.
Female rabbits including Clover, played by Gemma Arterton, Strawberry, played by Olivia Colman, and Hyzenthlay, played by Anne-Marie Duff, will get a dose of doe power, as it were, to allow them to display their own heroics alongside their male co-stars. The cast, announced today, is completed by Freddie Fox, who plays Captain Holly, and Miles Jupp as Blackberry. Watership Down, which will use computer animation to bring make the rabbits more life-like than ever, is made possible by a huge injection of cash from Netflix, which will broadcast the show worldwide after it is premiered on the BBC. Programme-makers have not confirmed their budget, but sources have indicated it is similar to that of The Night Manager, which cost £3m per hour and a total of around £18m. (Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Indeed. In any event, if they proceed down this path, I hope they’re prepared to meet the Black Rabbit of Inlé.
Speaking of their 2025 convention:
Furry Wonderland
Democratic Socialists convention is ridiculed as a ‘meeting of snowflakes’ after one delegate...
DAILY MAIL UK ^ | AUG 7, 2019 | DM REPORTER
Posted on 8/7/2019, 3:01:58 PM by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Democratic Socialists convention is ridiculed as a ‘meeting of snowflakes’ after one delegate complains his ‘sensory overload’ has been triggered by ‘whispering’ - accidentally sparking a debate over gendered nouns
Delegates at the Democratic Socialists of America convention are being ridiculed on social media after videos of them interrupting their ‘comrades’ to complain of being ‘triggered’ by chattering crowds and the use of gendered pronouns went viral.
The 2019 DSA National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, concluded on Sunday but is still inspiring conversation online, particularly among those who are opposed to the Democratic Socialist ideals.
Social media users are particularly tickled by a clip where one anxious delegate complains that the room is getting too loud before another takes the microphone and slams the ‘comrade’ before him for referring to the group as ‘guys’.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk
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