Shut Down The Minutemen Sep. 16-18! No Borders, No Racists!

We also call on those who
cannot travel to these areas to organize solidarity actions in their
home towns rejecting the Minutemen, Borders and the racist ideologies
that Borders are built on.
Our goal for Sep. 16th-18th is to take action and directly shut down the
Minutemen operations.

In the war for corporate globalization, every place has been turned into
a battlefield in a conflict with innumerable battles. The US/Mexico
border is one of the many, deadly battlefields in this war. In this
battlefield, the Border Patrol are its foot soldiers and the economic
refugees dying in the desert are its victims. Still, the power of the
border is that it stands for so many things which must be unraveled. The
millions of people struggling in abject poverty and dying in silence are
also the victims, not just those that die crossing.

The MinuteMen represent the worst kind of "American" bigotry, and we
will not let them continue to organize to spread their hate. We oppose
them for all of the following reasons:

- The MinuteMen are racist: while they claim to not be racist, their
rhetoric is openly anti-Mexican and the are enforcing racist laws which
have led to the deaths of over 3,200 people of color trying to cross the
US/Mexican Border.

- The MinuteMen are anti-queer: in our interactions with them, they have
made numerous homophobic and anti-queer remarks.

- The MinuteMen are anti-Arab: From the SaveOurState.org website, a
group which was present at the Campo Minutemen operation: "Well I have
heard that Arabs and Arab culture is a lot like the Mexican culture. And
that they are just as dirty, they both get along."

- The Minutemen openly work with hate groups: As the Southern Poverty
Law Center recently wrote, with help from Indymedia photographs,
SaveOurState.org is an organization that consists of members of the
National Vangaurd neo-nazi organization. The presence of these hate
groups in SOS has been defended by the leader of SOS. SOS works closely
with the Minutemen and their members were present at the Campo operation.

- The MinuteMen are against cultural diversity: The SaveOurState.org
forums have long rants about how everyone in the US should speak
english, and speak without an accent. At public events, MinuteMen
supporters have displayed signs saying "deportation or assimilation", a
message which goes far beyond "illegal immigration"

- The MinuteMen think they are fighting a fictitious "war on terror":
the MinuteMen have said numerous times that they want to keep Al-Quaeda
from crossing the US/Mexico border, despite the fact that none of the
9/11 hijackers entered the country illegally. Their efforts to keep this
fiction alive only promotes anti-Muslim hatred and the idea of a war
without an end.

- The MinuteMen are opposed to women's rights: At our events
they have accused women protesters of "killing babies", showing their
opposition to the right to choose. In addition, the border that the
Minutemen are enforcing supports a system where the majority of
Maquiladora workers are women and where women are being murdered in
Ciudad Juarez.

- The MinuteMen embody the violent nature of capitalism: MinuteMen
supporters equate capitalism with freedom, while we know that capitalism
means only freedom for the wealthy and exploitation for everyone else.
We reject trade agreements like NAFTA, which are a result of capitalism,
and which promote destructive globalisation. The Minutemen are enforcing
a border regime that determines who can be exploited, since capital can
move freely while people cannot.

- We are opposed to all borders as they are artificial barriers created
by corporations and politicians to divide working and poor people from
each other. Borders facilitate the exploitation of people on the "wrong
side" of the line, and box in special privilges for those on the "right
side" of the line. The increased militarization of borders by
power-hungry and violent imperialists, corporations, and politicians is
also a great concern for well-being of the global population. In
addition, the U.S. / Mexican border is a far deadlier border than the
Iron Curton was during the Cold War in Europe and represents the
equivalant of a "wanted dead or alive" bounty on Mexican citizens and
other foriegn nationals. The U.S. government would never tolerate its
citizens being treated the way it itself treats, by its actions and
inactions, the citizens of other nations.

No one is illegal. All people have a right to travel and migrate
wherever they want. Our struggle works toward the liberation of migrant
people, women, indigenous people, people of all nationalities, queers
and people of color against the violent bigotry of the MinuteMen and we
intend to stop their project from going any further.

Migration controls hurt everyone's freedom and privacy. Some of us are
more directly targeted and affected by these policies, but all of our
lives are being reshaped by them. We are in this struggle not only to
reject and stop these racist attacks, but to move towards a world
without borders, a world of liberation for all people.

This call endorsed by:

The o.r.g.a.n.i.c. Collective - http://organicCollective.org
Anarchist Action San Francisco - http://anarchistAction.org
Bay Area Coalition to Fight the Minutemen
Gente Unida
La Tierra es de Todos Coalition
Blast Furnace Radio, Pittsburgh, PA
ABC Melbourne Australia
Anti-Racist Action LA

To add your organization to the list of groups endorsing this call,
please email info at organicCollective.org

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