The Bash Back! network–which formed out of the organizing against this year’s Republican National Convention (RNC)–is planning a gathering in Lansing, Michigan next month to evaluate the protests against the RNC and to talk about where to go from here.
A statement from Bash Back! Lansing reads:
Hello Tranny-fags, boi-dykes, riot grrls, gender fuckers, sluts, and all queers and actual allies!! Hope you all have had a chance to rest and decompress from the DNC and RNC actions. Hope your report backs have gone as well as ours and you have had a chance to continue building your groups and starting new projects. New Bash Back chapters are popping up all over the country! The network of radical queers that has been built out of Anti-DNC and RNC organizing is growing and gaining momentum. Its time for another convergence.
Michigan’s newly formed chapter of Bash Back has volunteered to organize and provide for a Post-action Bash Back Convergence in Lansing. The main goal is to work through the actions, and pre-action work to learn as much as we can from it all while it is still fresh in our minds. A second goal of this convergence will be developing strategy for anti-Olympics organizing in Chicago. As well a a general goal of maintaining and building this radical queer network. There will also be workshops, caucuses and an action. Lansing will provide housing, food, and structure.
We feel that post action organizing is just as important as pre action. It tends to get neglected because the action is “over” and people want to get back to our lives and other projects. But this raises trouble when the next action comes along and we have to recount everything that happened in the year(s) previous.We end up making a lot of the same mistakes and lets face it, we dont have time for that. Even if Michigan it is far for you, please at least send one or two representatives from your affinity groups to this convergence. So that we can be more than ready for the next action. The state is already planning for our next move so we should at least be doing the same.
So please join us in Lansing for a rad weekend of organizing, actions, parties and the usual anarcho-sluttiness!
WAY IMPORTANT!!
***Please RSVP with how many you are bringing so that we can work out housing and food. Also with how many need private spaces. I.E. Trannies needed to take off binding, relax from tucking etc… That space will be limited, so hit us up as soon as you can!
SEE YOU IN NOVEMBER!!!
-Bash Back Lansing
RISE UP! BASH BACK!
Along with Unconventional Action–a far more loose network–Bash Back! was one of the only potentially long-term structures to come out of anti-RNC organizing.
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