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DEMONSTRATE APRIL 30 11 AM ON THE QUAD Diablo Valley College At the beginning of the semester, the Klan/Nazi/Church of the Creator began trying to use Diablo Valley Community College as the center for their racist, anti-Semitic, sexist and anti-gay organizing. Fascist slogans, SS symbols, and swastikas were put up on bathroom stalls and walls on the campus. On March 3, fascists put out flyers at DVC calling on racists and anti-gay bigots to make attacks. On the same day, fascists put out their racist propaganda in the Reno and Sacramento areas, and in the same week fascist youth in San Francisco painted swastikas on Asian homes and businesses in the Sunset District. The head of the violent, fascist Church of the Creator stated that their effort at DVC is part of a coordinated attempt to begin building fascist organizations on college campuses in order to build a movement to "expel all non-whites from America." Since the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) has been organizing to drive the Nazis off the DVC campus, the fascists have been forced to retreat from putting out their racist propaganda. But we need a mass demonstration to further push forward the work that has been started. The Nazis cannot be allowed to use DVC as a base for their bloody organizing. We need to build an anti-fascist campaign that can shut down these racists at DVC and anywhere they try to organize in the Bay Area. Fascists are violent, racist, anti-Semitic, anti-gay bigots with a specific program and plan of action. In times of economic and political crisis, fascist bands play on anti-Jewish, anti-black and anti-immigrant racism and hysteria, and organize for genocide against those groups as a false solution to the lack of jobs and economic security. To defeat the fascists, we need a two-part strategy: a militant, no-tolerance response to fascist organizing, and a mass movement that can provide the real solutions to the social problems that fascists feed on. Only militant, mass action can smash fascist organizing. We cannot rely on the government, the cops, or the campus administration to "ban the Klan." The cops have not and do not intend to shut down the Klan organizing at DVC. In fact they have confiscated BAMN fliers and threatened to arrest BAMN supporters. Students themselves must shut down Klan/Nazi organizing that uses any means necessary - including holding a press conference and calling press from all over Contra Costa County to expose the Nazis at DVC. All anti-nazi students must show their opposition to the Klan at the demonstration on April 30. A mass, anti-fascist demonstration can make clear that students at DVC put the safety and concerns of black, immigrant, Jewish, and gay students above "free speech for racist terrorists" - that we will not put up with the fascist organizing for racist attacks and extermination. The Nazis will only grow bolder if they see that the liberal defenders of "free speech" on campus are more interested in attacking the militant anti-racists in BAMN than in shutting down fascist organizing. The fascists don't care how many speeches in favor of "racial harmony" are made. They are aiming their racist filth at a particular audience - downwardly mobile, racist, white youth - who the fascists try to embolden to make physical attacks. As long as they are "free" to organize these racists, there is no safety for black, immigrant, Jewish, or gay students. We cannot allow the fascists to build an organization on our campus. We need to make sure that those who have been involved in putting out fascist propaganda on this campus know that this is a fascist-free zone. This includes Harvey with the tear-drop tattoo, who was witnessed putting up violently racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in the bathroom of the Liberal Arts Building, the older white guy with short graying hair and an SS tattoo - international symbol for racist genocide - on his neck, and the two white women who in the week after the fascist flyering on campus made a classroom presentation on white pride and called for a white student union. Students in California have fought and won against the Klan in the recent past. At CSU Northridge, BAMN organized and led a militant, integrated demonstration of hundreds of students against David Duke. Despite the batons, mace, and rubber bullets of the LAPD, the demonstrators fought courageously to make absolutely certain that the fascist Duke would not be able to set foot in California again for a very long time. The KKK/Nazis are seeking to make gains in California because these fascist trash sense an opening for their racist "direct action" implementation of 187 and 209 through violent and vicious beatings and murders of immigrants and minorities. Until recently, only the KKK/Nazis were proposing driving immigrants out of the country, and dismantling affirmative action. Now these proposals are at the center of national political debate. A mass, militant, integrated fight against fascism and for equality must again be taken up at DVC. We must make DVC an example of a campus that will not be fooled by the fascist attempt to use the call for "freedom of speech" to recruit and organize burnings, beatings, and lynchings. We must organize to shut them down ourselves before they can grow. BEWARE: There are those among us that will lecture and beg us to "ignore the fascists and they'll go away." This is simply a method of disarming the black community, the oppressed, the working class and anti-racist fighters as a whole in the face of fascist campaigns of church burnings and murders. Some naive people will also say that we just have to "educate" the fascists and change their minds. Fascist organizers who pass out flyers and paint swastikas have already made up their minds. They have a theory, a program, a historical example and plan to carry out genocide. edu BAMN Program: 1Defeat the racist, sexist California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI/Prop 209)! Hold mass meetings and conferences, vote on strategies and tactics, elect a steering committee accountable to the members of the coalition. Open it up to anti-racist activists and organizations from middle schools, high schools, community colleges, CSU's, unions, black and Latino communities, anti-racist groups, women's rights groups, lesbian and gay groups, etc.
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