📣 Call for Anti-fascist Solidarity 📣
Wear a red bandana, make a sign, bring a neighbor!
Free bandanas will be available at Firestorm Books starting today. Drop by and grab them for yourself and your friends. We'll see you in the streets!
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At 6pm on Saturday, October 18th, we invite you to attend Asheville's No Kings protest wearing a red bandana in solidarity with anti-fascists in Appalachia and beyond.
The red bandana is a reminder that anti-fascism runs deep in Appalachia. It arose as a physical symbol of solidarity among multi-ethnic striking coal miners during the 1921 march that erupted into open conflict in West Virginia.
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Fascism is here. ICE is profiling and kidnapping people in their homes and on the streets. Cities are occupied by the National Guard. Trans people are being demonized and stripped of basic freedoms.
Around the country, antifascists are taking action: interfering with ICE, sabotaging instruments of surveillance, confronting federalized troops, and organizing mutual aid for each other and their communities.
The Trump administration is working hard to establish the precedent that this opposition is a threat to national security. They see the people standing between them and their goal of absolute power as "the enemy within."
At a time when traditional institutions have failed, we need a combative anti-fascism now more than ever. The government will try to turn us against each other, branding the boldest of us violent, and criminalizing our efforts to survive. We can't let them. From peaceful protesters to militant actionists, our lives depend on everyone becoming the enemy within.
Endorsements
- Firestorm Books
- Asheville DSA
- Asheville Community Bail Fund
- Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross
- Mutual Aid Wellness Collective
- Asheville Alliance for Palestine Solidarity
- Rednecks Rising
- Appalachian Medical Solidarity
- Sumud Collective
- SALT Front
