Antifa are on the ground in Texas helping relief efforts

[Lunabell]

When Hurricane Harvey struck Southeast Texas this weekend, bringing torrential rain and severe flooding, scott crow (name intentionally in lower case) knew he had to get to Houston to help evacuate friends. He plans to return to contribute where he can provide relief to the thousands of people who have been displaced by the storm.

This is nothing new for crow.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he and others, like Malik Rahim and Sharon Johnson, set up a system of providing food, water, supplies and basic medical aid to those in vulnerable New Orleans neighborhoods. The organization, dubbed Common Ground Collective, grew to include several health clinics and helped displaced residents move back into their neighborhoods where infrastructure had failed.

But crow and hundreds of first responders in New Orleans in Houston just like him don’t come from a government or non-profit background.

They’re anarchists.





http://reverepress.com/news/antifa-ground-texas-helping-relief-efforts/

[Sedona]

1. Crows?

Like the Nights Watch?

[BigOleDummy]

2. Great

... story. Thank you for posting! Too bad news of this sort can't/won't be picked up and spread by more "mainstream" outlets.

[roomtomove]

3. Why are people calling anarchists antifa

and vice versa? Is everyone getting sucked up and fooled by media soundbytes and labels

Correct me if I am wrong, but I have been to a few peaceful demonstrations, and these guys (mostly guys) show up in the staging area, and change into their black outfits and quickly rush to the front to try to create a disturbance. These are the black block anarchists,...not necessarily antifascists...

[yallerdawg]

5. The right is generating a label for a false equivalency.

These anarchists are actually to the right of the white supremacists, KKK and Nazis - they want to tear it all down -and have virtually no government!

It's working.

"Antifa is to free speech rally" as "liberal is to conservative." They are branding that kind of word association again.

[Expecting Rain]

4. Why try to normalize enemies of liberalism?

Violent anarco-communist movements do not deserve cover from us, they've earned rebuke.

They are a gift to the right-wing.

[SharonClark]

6. Wow! They sure are well organized for Anarchists. Did they win WWII also?

"Far from it, however, these anarchists and antifascists have been among the first to respond to Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy and now Harvey, doing search and rescue, providing first aid, and establishing shelters in poorer urban neighborhoods and rural communities often overlooked by larger organizations."