D-O-R-K!
Posted on 07/25/2004 12:16:08 PM PDT by cweese
Activists used their bikes to raise awareness about Austin businesses they say profit from the war in Iraq.
The Central Texas Anti-Racist Action (part of the Anti-Racist Action Network) and Austin Radical Spokes Council hosted the Anti-War Bike Rally through downtown Austin.
Organizers say they want to remove criminal war profiteers from the Austin area.
"We are building towards a campaign that will remove these corporations from doing business in this area of the country," activist Jerry Bellow said.
Dozens of demonstrators rode through downtown for several hours and ended the bike tour at the State Capitol.
Will Sheryl Crow get Lance to join?
Hehehe...I was wondering if she was going to return from france for this, but then I just saw her licking Lance's tonsils at the conclusion of the tour.
Well, that IS Austin . . . and Austin is the San Fransisco of Texas.
Yup. Lots of moonbats living here.
I just read on another thread that Lance claims to support our troops and president, according to his website.
Maybe he can convert Sheryl.
"Austin businesses they say profit from the war in Iraq."
So its a sin to profit? What are these protestors doing for Iraq? Sell the bikes and donate the money for food and shelter in Iraq...
"Organizers say they want to remove criminal war profiteers from the Austin area."
Jock Strap Chirac lives in Austin?
Not exactly, but there are plenty of french expats here.
Ahhh--and Austin used to be such a lovely city.
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Well dadgum, I was just in Austin on Friday. If I'd known about this gasfest, I certainly would have stayed overnight and put my little SUV to good use the next day. Bessie can't help it if she accidentally takes out errant pedestrians from time to time; she probaby would have been delighted to get up close and personal with a few (obviously loony) cyclists.
Ahhh--and Austin used to be such a lovely city.
It certainly was! I've been here for 21 years and it's changed for the worse.
I KNEW there was a fate for the bucket of tacks I have in the shop; perhaps I'll become more current with future plans by this group to perform an encore.
The POS anti America/Israel/Jewish racist, Jerry Bellow in charge of the bike ride has been a subject on Free Republic before, see the link below.
A logical question would be where does Jerry Bellow get the funds to be all over America doing stunts like the Austin bike ride. He is probably funded by some pro Palistinian thugs/Islamofascists.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/656848/posts
An urgent appeal to all activists ... (Confusing Barf Alert)
Independent Media Center ^ | March 31, 2002 | Jerry Bellow
Posted on 03/31/2002 9:44:14 AM PST by stiga bey
An urgent appeal to all activists seeking Justice and Freedom for the Palestinian People from Anti-Racist Action
Please forward and distribute widely.
Revolutionary Greetings,
I am writing this as a member of Anti-Racist Action, as an open letter to all activists who work towards the goal of Freedom and Justice in the Occupied Territories. There is a two-fold purpose for my writing of this letter - (1) to build support for our own struggle; the struggle against the rising tide of fascism and white supremacy, and (2) to warn my comrades in the struggle for a Free Palestine of a very real political danger. This danger is of those on the right attempting to usurp the movement for a Free Palestine, not to help the Palestinian people or out of any sense of real justice, but for their own political goals and agenda.
First, an introduction to my organization and our work is in order for those of you who are unfamiliar. Anti-Racist Action is a grassroots, youth-based, direct-action organization dedicated to fighting fascism. For 15 years we have been organizing directly and militantly in our own communities against the KKK, Neo-Nazis, and fundamentalist bigots. We have succeeded as often as not in checking the growth of these groups through direct confrontation on the streets. We are now an international organization of some 60 chapters in the US, Indonesia, Argentina, Columbia and Canada.
I writing you today to alert you to a new trend in the American fascist movement and an important event taking place in Washington DC on May 11th. The National Alliance, this country's largest neo-Nazi organization, will be holding a large demonstration at the Israeli Embassy to protest the continuing genocide of the Palestinian people. Since September 11th, neo-Nazis have clamored over themselves to show support for various causes in the Middle East. They are doing this for two reasons: to appear oppositional to the policies of the United States government (which they consider to be controlled solely by Jewish interests, indeed they refer to it as ZOG, the Zionist Occupational Government), and to use the struggle of the Palestinian people to build crude anti-Semitism and thus their fascist movement.
This May 11th event will be the 3rd such event in DC. It will also be the largest. On March 23rd, Anti-Racist Action conducted surveillance on a planning meeting for this rally in Elmwood Park NJ. Over 100 neo-nazis were in attendance at the 4 hour meeting. White Supremacists from as far away as Virginia and Massachusetts participated in skills-building workshops and political training for this event and events to come.
Anti-Racist Action is mobilizing to directly confront the National Alliance and its allies on the streets of DC. We are prepared as always to struggle against the neo-Nazis for control of the streets. We welcome any like-minded allies in this endeavor. However it is critical to us, and to other people more directly working for the Palestinian cause, that we have allies in the struggle for ideological space.
We can not allow the struggle for Justice in Palestine to be undermined by opportunists from the right. We can not allow the opponents of a Free Palestine an opportunity to tar the movement wholesale with charges of anti-Semitism and Nazism. We must show the world who truly cares about Palestine, and who is just seeking an opportunity to build their own vile cause.
We are calling therefore for a demonstration "For a Free Palestine and against Fascism" (or whatever other slogan sounds better but means the same thing). Today, we find the struggle against Zionism and the Struggle against Nazism linked in the strangest of fashions. Let us go together onto new ground with resolve, intelligence, and solidarity. Together we all carry a new world in our hearts, a just world that is growing this minute.
Yours in Struggle, ----Jerry Bellow for Columbus Anti-Racist Action.
For more information about the mobilization, or about fascist groups, their aims and the struggle to defeat them contact:
Columbus ARA aracolumbus@hotmail.com Baltimore ARA claustro.phobia@verizon.net Chicago ARA ara@wwa.com
"Yours in Struggle, ----Jerry Bellow for Columbus Anti-Racist Action."
What an ignorant clown.
I live 30 miles from the city and have not bothered to go there to disrupt them in the fashion suggested. Oh well, maybe someday.
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